Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stanley 's , moving the ball wide with crisp facility , stretched their lead to 18-0 when Rees broke down the left and crashed over with muscular help from Watkinson . |
| 2 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 3 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 4 | Stephen pulled down the blind and sat at his father 's desk , opening one drawer after another . |
| 5 | Abrams and Marsden open up an important and neglected aspect of this question — the impact of social class upon attitudes to caring . |
| 6 | This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route ! |
| 7 | Newry only had a couple of first half chances , with big Barry Hunter cancelling out the first when he intercepted a Gary Hughes shot . |
| 8 | As it happened , in the first book , Mrs Curdle paid her final visit to the place , but her grandson Ben took over the fair and continued in the old lady 's footsteps for several years . |
| 9 | United 's other young star , Chrissie Allen raced down the left and set things up for goal number 4 . |
| 10 | Osep brought up the piebald that Burun used for riding when he was with the clan , and Burun mounted . |
| 11 | In the three years after his retirement , Britain chalked up no fewer than four prime ministers until Earl Grey managed to fill his shoes . |
| 12 | Alexandra put down a black and a yellow bishop side by side on matching squares . |
| 13 | Charles and Diana sent back the bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish , a taste of the lacklustre state of the royal marriage . |
| 14 | In an effort to distract him , Sister Cooney had encouraged Doctor Staples to draw up a new and exacting regimen of exercises for him which she would supervise herself . |
| 15 | Whatever expectations his parents had of him , Valentin grew up the best-balanced and the least ambitious of their children . |
| 16 | In 63 minutes Burrows floated over a free and Hunter was there to nod the ball home at the near post . |
| 17 | At Worksop Gloucestershire were put in to bat by Nottinghamshire and are now ( 239 for 6 ) two hundred and thirty nine for six , Athey knocking up a hundred and thirty two . |