Example sentences of "[noun prp] [unc] [noun sg] [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Molly 's father awoke the next morning with a start , a dry mouth and an erection for which he had no need .
2 Stoutt 's VIP won a third ( but not consecutive ) term in a general election held in September 1986 , winning five of the nine elected seats [ see p. 34856 ] .
3 Halifax 's crumbling defence could n't cope and Schofield 's skill created a sixth try , this time for Innes .
4 On the left of Bülow 's army lay the Third Army ( General von Hausen ) and the armies of Duke Albrecht of Württemberg , of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , and of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria .
5 Lorton opened his mouth to speak but something in Dougal 's face strangled the first syllable .
6 When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting .
7 Johansson 's team tested a third energy mix that did not achieve the target .
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