Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Colin bounced back to score a good victory in the under-16 final against Adam Bond ( Skelmersdale Park ) . |
| 2 | Only , this was indeed to be an honour — for the Sergeant himself personally wielded the electro-iron when Lexandro , Yeremi , and Biff bent over to flex the great gluteal muscles of their rumps . |
| 3 | Driver Mr Alex McClymont got out to report a faulty signal by telephone . |
| 4 | Rex waded in to hold the struggling arms apart . |
| 5 | Nearly 700 BP employees involved in the KG Ethylene Project turned up to enjoy a delicious grill and tasty menu specially prepared for the event . |
| 6 | Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife . |
| 7 | Gorbachev went on to give an emphatic answer in his keynote address to calls heard from both ends of the political spectrum for his resignation not just from the party leadership , but also from the presidency . |
| 8 | Canon Tydeman went on to offer an alternative interpretation of JAH-BUL-ON . |
| 9 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 10 | Hill ended up sharing the front row of the provisional grid with his Canon Williams -Renault team-mate Alain Prost . |
| 11 | Curtis came in wearing a shabby , fawn mackintosh and looking exactly as he had done the night before . |
| 12 | Again it was the industrious O'Shea who played in a precise , low cross and Nick Wells raced in to strike an unstoppable left-foot volley . |
| 13 | Whether in slices or in the intact brain , LTP turned out to have a similar range of properties . |
| 14 | Was n't that the time when the Bank of England stepped in to avoid the whole City suffering ? |
| 15 | The Palestinian gunmen crouching behind the sand embankment across Boulevard Ariss went on watching the Syrian tanks , ignoring the sound . |
| 16 | How odd that inspired Dad 's Army creators Jimmy Perry and David Croft went on to write every other useless ensemble sit-com ! |
| 17 | Swansea took over following a 14–0 win at home to Newport , as Stuart Davies celebrated his call-up to the Wales squad with a try , but were replaced the following week by a determined Pontypool . |
| 18 | Furse set out to create a Service which would be ‘ a corps d'elite to which … the best type of man … will feel it an honour to belong ’ , and in time and according to his lights , he brought practice into line with theory and made good the boast that those whom England sent out to govern the colonial empire were her finest sons . |
| 19 | In the fourth part of Israel : A Nation Is Born ( C4 ) , Dr Abba Eban was celebrating a 25-year-old victory , the Six Day War , in which a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt 's President Nasser set out to destroy the Jewish state and got a bloody nose from the Israeli pre-emptive strike . |
| 20 | Possibly the only person ever to have succeeded in upstaging Margaret Thatcher in a photo-opportunity , Katharine lined up to shake the Prime Minister 's hand wearing a T-shirt declaring ‘ 58 per cent Do n't Want Pershing ’ at a Downing Street reception in 1984 . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , Gabby came in riding the second wave . |
| 22 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
| 23 | Claudette Williams went along to take a closer look . |
| 24 | Mr Ashwell went on to present an inscribed plate as a token of gratitude to the hosts of the ceremony — the Hotel Management School at Leeuwarden . |
| 25 | Mr Patten went on to draw the obvious conclusion . |
| 26 | Leon gave up wearing the new clothes he 'd bought in London , curiously dated , formal stuff , even then , even to my eye . |
| 27 | But many more were needed , and in early January Coleridge set off to publicize the new venture on a tour of the Midlands , recording an eventful journey with comic gusto both in his letters at the time and almost twenty years later in the Biographia Literaria . |
| 28 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 29 | At about half past six Stephen set out to take the crinkle-crankle path up the fell , the way he had brought the policemen three weeks before . |
| 30 | Emily Lightbody came back to work the following Monday . |