Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer waved vigorously to avert a second major accident and was eventually spotted and taken on board . |
| 2 | The Princes of Caledor strove unsuccessfully to wake the last dragons . |
| 3 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 4 | Brian Deane had earlier claimed the first of what he hopes will be many goals for Leeds . |
| 5 | In the second edition of his Romans , Barth had really given the second answer , and Bultmann and Gogarten continued to give it . |
| 6 | Thereafter , Franco began to make a rhetorical distinction between the war against the United Kingdom and the United States , in which Spain took no part , and the war against the Soviet Union , which , in Franco 's view , was a new crusade against communism , of which Nationalist Spain had already fought the first battle during her Civil War . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom chose dutifully to implement the Fourth Directive on Company Accounts without waiting , as some other member States did , for the adoption of the Seventh Directive on Group Accounts . |
| 8 | Richter had also conducted the first performances of two Brahms symphonies . |
| 9 | Mohamed Ali had both established the last of the numerous alien dynasties to rule Egypt and begun to lay the groundwork for a modern state on European lines . |
| 10 | Solomon had just lost the third set to go two sets to one down , the crowd was baying for American blood . |
| 11 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |
| 12 | Lord Francis had earlier made the first ascent of the Wellenkuppe , but dismissed the ridge linking to the Ober Gabelhorn as impracticable , a view held until the traverse was made in 1890 by L. Norman Neruda , a Swede , and guide Christian Klucker . |
| 13 | They proved too exotic and religious for Parisians , in public at least , for Moatti had already sold a third of his catalogue in the privacy of his gallery . |