Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it .
2 In the early days Diana had had some guidance from Sir Richard Attenborough .
3 Against these dubious features Grafpad does posses several very useful facilities .
4 The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to 30 or so , leaving Pick with its development core and about five salespeople .
5 The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to thirtysomething , leaving Pick with its development core and about five sales people .
6 SUNDERLAND-based Harry Williams looks to have another puppy sensation on his hands .
7 From here to the final stages it was all uphill , and with six furlongs left St Denis had had enough , so Achilles took up the running until the runners came into the straight .
8 In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British .
9 Good job Tom had got all the horses in , though .
10 As regards the claim in respect of additional lighting , he said that Wimpy International v Warland had decided that lighting that did no more than provide general illumination was not plant , as it was not used for carrying on the business .
11 For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition .
12 Through his work with the Technical Advisory Committee Peter has done much to raise our standing with Government and the media , a task that he will continue to fulfil in his new role .
13 This does not necessarily disprove the contention that TNCs exploit women workers in particular in the Third World , though it does modify the thesis to the extent that in some developing countries TNCs do provide some good jobs for women that help them to fulfil relatively freely chosen cultural needs .
14 On 1 September 1934 he hit five goals against Cardiff City and only Peter Simpson has bettered that in a single match for us .
15 The communal and the familial are not necessarily in opposition — they are matters of levels , and although at certain times Marx seems to see this , at others he does not and Engels never does .
16 New boss DUNFERMLINE have appointed former player Bert Paton as their manager .
17 Andy , whose estranged wife Fergie has caused much of the dismay , could be the hardest hit .
18 At the other end Sudbury began to launch some promising attacks , but their final delivery was off-key , until their last gasp equaliser came with a minute left when defender Ian Williams drove low into the net after two previous shots had been blocked .
19 Had Janet noticed how quiet Mr Ashenden had seemed all day ?
20 ’ We are surprised Mr Brind has taken this action .
21 Over the past year Alastair has spent more time cycling , putting in up to 150 miles a week .
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