Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy made quite a good joke . |
| 2 | Bruce Critchley and David Sheehan gave the amateurs some hope when they ran out as comfortable 5 & 3 winners over Ken Bousfield and Geoff Hunt , while Warren Humphreys and Michael Lunt fought out a halved match with Peter Butler and Peter Mills but elsewhere there were wins for Alliss and Hunt ( 4 & 3 ) , Dawson and Platts ( 4 & 3 ) , Clark and Guy Hunt ( 1 hole ) and Wood and Garner ( 3 & 2 ) . |
| 3 | Colin fought back the inevitable question . |
| 4 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 5 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 6 | While soccer 's purists quake at the thought of Graham Taylor bringing in the long-ball game , Ferguson insists Dublin 's arrival will not mean a switch to Route One football at Old Trafford . |
| 7 | ‘ Ian looks quite a good keeper all-round . |
| 8 | From it , Kirov drew out a slim sheaf of black and white photographs of the young pilot , and a single sheet of personal notes which he had compiled from their conversations . |
| 9 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 10 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 11 | Ellis found only a moderate rate ( about 4 per cent ) of frank insanity among his subjects ; a figure , incidentally , that included some examples of brain disease . |
| 12 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 13 | John Stewart demonstrated how the budgetary environment can impact on the culture of public sector organisations . |
| 14 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 15 | Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out . |
| 16 | Howe still needs a goalkeeper on loan because David Seaman has only a slender chance of returning on Saturday and his two deputies are injured . |
| 17 | In his office an anxious Herr Nordern gouged out a few marks from unenthusiastic colleagues for a wreath for Steinmark 's funeral . |
| 18 | IPSWICH Town 's great rivals Norwich and Saturday 's FA Cup quarter-finals opponents Arsenal fought out a 1–1 draw at Carrow Road last night . |
| 19 | However , at a session of the Komsomol 's 21st congress on April 16 CPSU central committee ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev read out a central committee resolution which called for the expulsion from the CPSU of Democratic Platform leaders , albeit not those rank-and-file communists whom they had " led astray " . |
| 20 | Cadfael straightened out the coarse folds of the hood , and shook out a few pale feathery fragments from among them . |
| 21 | During his reign Edward made nearly a thousand presentations to church livings , as many as sixty-nine in one year alone in 1304–5 . |
| 22 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 23 | Loc let out a little moan of anguish . |
| 24 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |
| 25 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 26 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 27 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 28 | When she finished David let out a low whistle . |
| 29 | In this way Dr. Bach built up a complete medicine chest of thirty-eight flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 30 | Management suffered the brunt of the reorganisation , with ZDS stripping out a whole department of sales managers . |