Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During our discussion , you told me that you were about to leave the manager 's job at Athletico and take up a similar position with Ipswich Town . |
| 2 | The result will also give a huge lift to Alex Ferguson 's Manchester United team who were originally due to travel to Norwich today but went there instead on Tuesday and pulled off a significant victory . |
| 3 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 4 | She hugged Katherine and stretched out a welcoming hand to Portia . |
| 5 | Teddington had to give up Laslett and Barker to England but put up a spirited performance against the national side . |
| 6 | It was reported that immediately after the close of the congress around 120 of these delegates began discussions on splitting from the Estonian CP and setting up a rival communist party in Estonia which would be subordinate to the CPSU . |
| 7 | The distribution was apparently hampered by strict curfew regulations , imposed in the occupied territories as a security measure since the morning of Jan. 16 in view of the level of popular support for Saddam Hussein and to ward off a fresh upsurge in the Palestinian intifada . |
| 8 | Arafat addresses the UN Security Council in Geneva and puts forward a five-point plan . |
| 9 | It takes the cyberpunk circus routines of Archaos and gives then a high-tech edge . |
| 10 | The best of Assynt , however , lies between this road and the coast , and my preference is always to turn off the A.894 two miles out of Kylesku and go along a narrow road that has never been improved and I hope never will . |
| 11 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
| 12 | But in Italy at the same time both foreign and native composers were developing forms of secular polyphony which later in the century were to spread over most of Europe and bring about a remarkable expansion of music 's technical resources in the regions of harmony and tonality and in emotional and pictorial expressiveness . |
| 13 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 14 | A semi-finalist in last month 's Canadian Open , Meddings totally dominated Davies and ran out a comfortable 15-12 , 15-10 , 15-10 winner in just over half an hour . |
| 15 | A semi-finalist in last month 's Canadian Open , Meddings totally dominated Davies and ran out a comfortable 15-12 , 15-10 , 15-10 winner in just over half an hour . |
| 16 | Charlie went straight up to the room that he shared with Terry and put on a Fine Young Cannibals tape . |
| 17 | From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . |
| 18 | In due course , and all too soon , the excitement of the scenery fades as the road declines through woodland to the only buildings , the Nature Reserve of Inverpolly , there crossing the River Polly and climbing over a bare moorland dominated by Stac Polly , here seen end on as a slender spire , and then finally joins the Ullapool-Achiltibuie road . |
| 19 | The Siemens family maintained both British and German connections , for William 's brother Werner remained in Berlin and built up a great electrical engineering business there , making among other things the first trams . |
| 20 | They retook the cursed city of Anlec and cast up a great fortress in the rubble . |