Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After their big score on Wednesday , world champions Pakistan were skittled out for just ninety-three at New Road . |
| 2 | Phoenix were bowled out for just 46 , Bill Dwyer top scoring with an unbeaten 21 . |
| 3 | All along Park Lane they backed on to Hyde Park , and the whole space between the Ritz Hotel and Berkeley Square was taken up by just two very grand ones . |
| 4 | An area of one square mile around Oxford Street was sealed off for almost five hours and traders , already hit by recession , lost millions of pounds . |
| 5 | When the various treaties came up for review ( the Zollverein was made up of over 200 agreements ) , Prussia would often threaten to withdraw if the terms did not suit her . |
| 6 | Saturday 's concerned with beautifying , improving and modernising your abode and winning general approval and admiration for your efforts whilst Sunday 's taken up with subtly getting a loved one to toe the line . |
| 7 | She got up and then when it came round to singing Jerusalem and Edie was put out at not singing Jerusalem , this is another one off the psychiatric list and Pat goes |
| 8 | Like many staunch , working class families , the Gedges were keen on discipline and Gedge was brought up in quite a rigid environment . |
| 9 | Michael and Liz were chosen out of around fifty candidates , including eminent conservationists like Jonathan Poritt . |
| 10 | Lewis is coming up to very close backward point , a silly point we have Smith , a short leg we have Morris so there are a good wicketkeeper and the slip both with hands on hips , are five men round the batsman and a mid-on , a long leg , mid-off , cover and the point and Tufnell false run , erm stops in his run , John Hampshire signals no delivery and they start again , a hundred and nineteen for four at the moment the score . |
| 11 | Put in on a slow wicket , Montgomeryshire were bundled out for just 65 taking up virtually 45 overs . |
| 12 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 13 | Noel Blake was kicked out for exactly the same reason — he could nt handle being in a squad . |
| 14 | ‘ The whole West End 's closing down from tonight . ’ |
| 15 | I am chilled by some of the things Sinead is coming out with nowadays . |
| 16 | Two other tournaments intervened before the Masters and one of them at Houston was washed out with hardly , in cricketing terminology , a ball being bowled . |
| 17 | Two other tournaments intervened before the Masters and one of them at Houston was washed out with hardly , as would be said in cricket , a ‘ ball being bowled ’ . |
| 18 | Doyle was frowning down at yesterday 's paper , pretending to do the crossword . |
| 19 | Their scrum-half Kevin Ellis was sent off for allegedly tripping his opposite number , Paul Bishop . |
| 20 | But Ben was staring down at where his left hand had been only a moment before , sounding the chord . |
| 21 | Defender David Bardsley is ruled out of today 's match at Southampton by an ankle injury picked up playing for England in Spain , while Andy Sinton is also very doubtful with a sore foot . |