Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one of this year 's Crufts group winners made it through to the last forty ! |
| 2 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 3 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 4 | A PAPER fan inherited among a job lot on her marriage led Mrs Lynn Lamport on a trail of historical intrigue unearthing tales of three-in-a-bed and of a Lady whose gambling losses brought her down to the level of street sweeper . |
| 5 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 6 | A court 's been hearing how a four year old girl was found battered and half-starved after her parents locked her up in a bedroom for months on end . |
| 7 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 8 | A sudden clatter of hoofs brought her back to an awareness of their public surroundings . |
| 9 | Sikes laid her down in the corner , as surprised as Fagin at her anger . |
| 10 | British troops shepherded them out of the monastery buildings into 19 Warrior armoured vehicles . |
| 11 | It 's a weird phenomenon how the English bands turned us on to the music in our own part of the world — taught us to appreciate it . |
| 12 | Even sad films took us back to a world that we understood , a world where people lived their lives , hoping for happiness and sometimes even finding it . |
| 13 | ‘ The dogs saw them off in no time . |
| 14 | Jessica 's grandparents took her out for the day as father-of-four Mr Egerton , of Enfield , north London , recovered from Friday 's ordeal . |
| 15 | A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing . |
| 16 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 17 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 18 | There was more in the pitch than on the opening day for the quicker bowlers and with the second new ball Mark Ilott , playing his first game for Essex for a year after serious back problems kept him out of the game last season , was impressively hostile . |
| 19 | The two head office teams battled it out for the top spot , but it was no surprise to see , a Bolton Sailing Club member along with his father , steer his craft over the line first . |
| 20 | A sudden crash of cymbals pulled him back to the present . |
| 21 | Webster 's increasing debts pulled him back from a contest , but he again bounced back to contest the Chichester borough elections in 1823 , 1826 and 1831 . |
| 22 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 23 | Afterwards , one of the servants led us down to a vaulted cellar . |
| 24 | It seemed that every round of the cup had become a pressure game for Tommy but the Glens made it through to the semi-final against Bangor . |
| 25 | ‘ One of our sergeants took him out of the river about six o'clock this morning , a mile and a half downstream from here . |
| 26 | The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army . |
| 27 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 28 | Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec . |
| 29 | The pressure became too much as sponsors , fly-by-nights and average New Zealanders sent them off to the World Cup with the message that all New Zealand expected them to win . |
| 30 | The end of the wars drove them back to the British Isles , and some of them turned to fight for land in Ireland . |