Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Scots launched a spirited recovery in the second half against a very powerful side made up of former and future Wallaby internationals and , especially after David Sole came on as a replacement prop , they took complete control of the match , running in four excellent tries in an exciting 24–24 draw . |
| 2 | While she was deciding whether to support the Denver Broncos or the Pittsburgh Pederasts ( whatever ) , I sneaked into the bedroom and nearly had a heart attack to find a three-foot Paddington Bear propped up on the pillow . |
| 3 | At least London 's Notting Hill Carnival got off to a trouble-free start . |
| 4 | The big oak table was laid in the hall , and quantities of Portugal wine brought up from the souterrain . |
| 5 | In the very early hours of Saturday morning transfer back to the airport for your flight to London Heathrow . |
| 6 | To the west across the valley there was a fine view of the easy-angled slopes of the Hinku Nup glacier leading up to the Mingbo La ( 5817m ) . |
| 7 | When elected in 1981 , the Mitterrand government harked back to the legacy of planning in the first postwar decades ( chapter 18 ) . |
| 8 | While in 1965 at the Spencer Churchill sale top examples were changing hands for around £600 , and in the 1970s in the low thousands , the prices at the Castle Ashby sale shot up into the hundred thousands for the first time as new collectors , both Greek and American , competed against each other . |
| 9 | The Governor Eyre controversy dragged on for a number of years , creating deep divisions within respectable society . |
| 10 | As well as being irritating , the refrain was unanswerable , Kathleen Lavender leaned back against the kitchen door , hands behind her in a schoolgirlish pose . |
| 11 | The Strauss waltz started up in the bedroom . |
| 12 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 13 | Jack Charlton has given the Swindon winger Tony Galvin permission to pull out of the Republic of Ireland 's World Cup squad for next week 's final qualifier in Malta . |
| 14 | He gave a thumbs-up sign then replaced it and manoeuvred his wheelchair round behind his desk where he tapped his security code into the IBM computer linked up to the central data bank elsewhere in the building . |
| 15 | Last month , IBM Corp teamed up with the writer , director and producer of Terminator 2 : Judgment Day , James Cameron , Academy Award winning character creator Stan Winston , and celebrated special visual effects studio executive Scott Ross to form Digital Domain Inc , a new visual effects and digital production studio . |
| 16 | Across the Bristol Channel we could see over to the cliffs of North Devon , while off to the west Carmarthen Bay and the Pembrokeshire coast stretched out into the distance . |
| 17 | The Valencia trainer came on to the pitch and was ushered back towards the tunnel by Fernando Giner , a home defender . |
| 18 | The concrete spillway below the Loch Add reservoir comes down to a stepped slope above the confluence of several small burns draining nearby slopes . |
| 19 | When the Suez crisis boiled over in the autumn , the strain on ministers was immense . |
| 20 | Reynard Lennon , who had left a trail of confused , temporarily disabled security droids behind him , waited in the shadow of a large rhododendron hybrid in Acropolis Park and watched the Roirbak rotor dance up from the roof , wheel around and head towards Sector 2p . |
| 21 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 22 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |
| 23 | The England manager hit back in the row with his former captain and said : ‘ I find it hard to understand how any player can retire from international football at the age of 30 . |
| 24 | I 'M ASHAMED to be the first Scotland captain sent off in an international match . |
| 25 | This battle became known later as the Battle of the Jaws , an apt name considering the manner in which the Orc attack closed in on the Dwarfs , like the jaws of the Mad Dog itself . |
| 26 | Before long , I was introduced to the hysterical world of balletomania and had had several overnight trips to Sadlers Wells theatre to queue up for the cheap seats , once even queueing all night . |
| 27 | The detective said , ‘ Take it easy with the limey , we do n't want Scotland Yard horning in on the case . ’ |
| 28 | Dinmore Manor is on the site of a Knights Hospital dating back to the days of the crusades . |
| 29 | Robins became senior staff nurse , the other staff nurses moved up one , and the senior student nurse in the A.R.R. Unit came back into the Hall as an acting staff nurse . |
| 30 | Trident sub goes down for the first time |