Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker , 33 , understudy to injured first-choice Craig Forrest , played through the pain barrier during Ipswich 's 2-2 draw with Coventry City last Saturday after picking up a groin injury . |
| 2 | The mortar men were not trained as Heavy Weapons Troops would be later in the war , but this did not prevent Sergeant Ramsey from getting off a bomb that appeared to go down the hotel chimney , reportedly causing a dozen or more casualties . |
| 3 | If we ca n't blend Rocky in smoothly , I do n't see how we 'd manage to blend Gazza without pissing off a number of players . |
| 4 | Ford 's watertight performance prevented big guns Burnley from running up a cricket score against McHale 's men . |
| 5 | KATHLEEN MACK , a 74-year-old stud owner , has forced a development company to amend its plans for a new overspill village for Cambridge by turning down a £6m offer and chasing the company 's surveyors off her land with a shotgun , writes Christian Wolmar . |
| 6 | Religious apologists have also fallen into the same trap as White and Draper in projecting backward a model — in this case of harmony — that , although consonant with their own reconstructed religion , may not fit the religious beliefs of the past . |
| 7 | After skiing the last section of the Vallee Blanche Nigel decided we could avoid a walk into Chamonix by skiing down a snow chute filled with avalanche debris . |
| 8 | When , in late 1709 , a Dissenting minister set up a conventicle in Monmouth without taking out a licence , he and some sixteen of his congregation were committed to prison by the mayor for failing to meet the provisions of the Toleration Act . |
| 9 | A longer but more interesting approach is possible by leaving the cart track at the viaduct and keeping along the east side of the railway ; join the track from Winterscales to Dentdale by passing over a bridge near the entrance to Blea Moor tunnel . |
| 10 | ‘ Obviously they 're looking at every aspect and it may include action against Tom Walkinshaw for putting together a deal that has been ruled unlawful . ’ |
| 11 | Frankfurt and Paris have already beat London in setting up an electronics settlements system , while the fully-automated Frankfurt Terminborse ( futures and options ) is vying with the open outcry Liffe market in London . |
| 12 | When the Company entered the dynastic politics of southern India by putting forward a candidate of its own in the Carnatic , the French were soon able to drive him back to Trichinopoly and beseige him there . |
| 13 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 14 | Paul battered John after going on a night of ‘ louting ’ . |
| 15 | First Paul Nixon showed intelligence when he ignored an opportunity to shoot and pulled the ball back instead for the better-placed David Mehew to score and then , two minutes later , Mehew combined with Devon White before sending over a cross that Gary Penrice , a yard out , accepted with relish . |