Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 After Richard Eaton had cancelled out a second minute opener from Kenny Morris on 20 minutes , John Stephens shot Annadale into the lead with a superb finish to two minutes into the second period .
2 The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen .
3 Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand .
4 And then Adam had read aloud the first definition :
5 David and wife Catherine had scraped together every last penny to ensure their sons , Stuart , Richard , baby Thomas and Mark , ( from left in picture ) would have the happiest Christmas possible .
6 To reach this point Johnson has taken up a third of his Journey to the Western Islands , and one can now sense the lift of excitement in him , a man about to broach the exotic .
7 Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all .
8 The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement .
9 Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) .
10 United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too …
11 Grollet said a laboratory in Utrecht had carried out a second test on 14 September and that , too , had been positive .
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