Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 2 | Jockey Helen Brennan broke her back in five places after falling from her horse . |
| 3 | Jimmy Tarbuck and his mate Kenny Lynch followed us around for one of the practice days and , unusually for Tom and I , it was a sunny day . |
| 4 | Katie cut hers up into five hundred pieces |
| 5 | The present landlady , Mrs Margaret Saunders took it on in 1941 when Polish servicemen from a nearby camp were regulars . |
| 6 | Grunte put him down as 16/20 . |
| 7 | Coetzer , 6ft 4ins and nearly 16 stones , was ranked No.1 contender by the WBA and IBF until last month in Las Vegas , when Riddick Bowe stopped him in round seven . |
| 8 | Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity . |
| 9 | As the music came to a thundering climax , Damian bent her back over one arm , his tough face very close to hers . |
| 10 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 11 | First , the curt instruction to make a mayonnaise ‘ a la main ’ , though this proved much easier than expected when Eric started us off with three egg yolks and a healthy dollop of strong French mustard ( tip of the year for this amateur chef ) before adding the first drop of oil . |
| 12 | Oh God , he went in Sunday , Bill took him in at ten o'clock about sixteen mile here and sixteen mile back it is |
| 13 | Staff at London 's Games Store had sold little of anything to do with the war until the war-games club of an American military base in Britain cleared them out of T-55 tanks ( Iraq 's main battle tank ) and German armoured personnel carriers ( used by the Saudis ) . |
| 14 | Quigley held me up with one free hand and opened the door of his car with the other . |
| 15 | Nicholls put him in after 51 minutes and he brilliantly chested the ball down before sweeping a shot past McKeown . |
| 16 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 17 | Mr Pinter gave him up to 15 minutes or so , and when he did not arrive , left . |
| 18 | Charles Martel had them out in 737 , but the island was laid waste and largely abandoned for three centuries , the Bishop and clergy fleeing and the Counts of Melgueil , of evil repute , appropriating the see and its revenues ; yet in 798 St Theodulph of Orléans reported that despite this , and pirates , there were still four chapters there . |
| 19 | It was a short-lived success , and the principal landowners in both East and West Sussex forced him out in 1820 by putting up one of his neighbours , Curteis of Windmill Hill against him . |
| 20 | Last night at Edgar Street Torquay turned them over with two goals in four minutes just before half-time . |
| 21 | Mark Tollerton started them off with two early goals , then Billy Neill , Jim Joy and Mark Dunwoody settled the affair . |
| 22 | As Basil Yeaxley put it back in 1925 : " the spiritual has a wider character than the religious , just as the religious does not fall wholly within the spiritual " ( Yeaxley 1925 : 46 ) . |
| 23 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 24 | Alexei 's sword blade swept round in a great circle and Rostov turned it off with one of the best parries of his life . |
| 25 | The master craftsman was left helpless as referee Paul Thomas called it off after two minutes 20 seconds of the ninth . |