Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Shiratori rose rapidly through the ranks : in 1971 he joined AA 's worldwide partnership and three years later was made managing partner of the Japanese operations . |
| 2 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 3 | Doyle moved quickly along the gardens , crouching slightly , eyes keen for movement , heart beginning to pump . |
| 4 | TOP seed Gabriela Sabatini moved comfortably into the semi-finals of the Virginia Slims of Houston tournament , dropping just three games against the unseeded Sandra Cecchini . |
| 5 | Having handed over her letter and waved goodbye , Perdita wandered down to the stables . |
| 6 | Bernice moved over to the creatures . |
| 7 | Shag found out about the wet-dreams . |
| 8 | Hatch bent down to the plants . |
| 9 | The door opened , and Georgina came out with the police . |
| 10 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 11 | Donna came out into the arrivals concourse at Heathrow wearing Day-Glo cycling shorts , a shiny purple baseball cap and a big T-shirt emblazoned with the words KEYCUTTERS DO IT WHILE YOU WAIT . |
| 12 | Many of today 's athletic superstars , such as Linford Christie , Colin Jackson , Roger Black , Sally Gunnell and Liz McColgan came up through the ranks of schools athletics . |
| 13 | There 's a great physicality to it , like when Lee 's bro Neil biffs away at the drums during ‘ Failure ’ . |
| 14 | STEPPING OUT The Director of SHIRLEY VALENTINE teams up with the stars of EDUCATING RITA and CABARET |
| 15 | While Loopy Lil and Mrs Hollidaye were organizing tea , Dot walked slowly round the gardens , dragging her shoes through crunchy heaps of left-behind snow . |
| 16 | A leader without a party to go to , he nods and winks his way through the set crammed with seaside singalongs , while brother Scott grins cheesily at the girls during a knockabout ‘ Theme From The New Avengers ’ . |
| 17 | A leader without a party to go to , he nods and winks his way through the set crammed with seaside singalongs , while brother Scott grins cheesily at the girls during a knockabout ‘ Theme From The New Avengers ’ . |
| 18 | Marie scrambled out of the sand-hills and ran along the bank , crashing her way through the tall , razor-edged grass , not minding if it cut her hands . |
| 19 | Chelsea continued to dominate with Graham Stuart and Dennis Wise running dangerously at the visitors ' defence . |
| 20 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 21 | Taking a hint from the fame and antiquity of Egyptian flax working , Roberts went off to the banks of the Nile to study the Temple of Karnak , and came back to build Mr Marshall a factory in like fashion , which soon became known , naturally enough , as the Temple Mill . |
| 22 | Iorwerth reached out of the leaves for him and choked him mute , but the damage was done . |
| 23 | Hawkins looked briefly at the signals again . |
| 24 | Bernice looked again at the bones . |
| 25 | Kathleen went heavily down the stairs . |
| 26 | Andy died quickly under the wheels of the Volvo . |
| 27 | As Penny went over to the drinks table the headmaster was in full spate . |
| 28 | In the sixteenth century , St Teresa of Avila complained bitterly of the perils of the parlour in her fashionable convent , where the nuns practically ran a salon ! |
| 29 | Damon Hill walks back to the pits after colliding with Italy 's Alessandro Zanardi in the South African Grand Prix yesterday . |
| 30 | Psychological counselling may help accident victims like Richard Eaton cope better with the flashbacks . |