Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Plange added another try for the home side but Widnes fought back with further scores from Bobby Goulding and Stuart Spruce but the Eagles managed to hold on for victory . |
| 2 | 1.00:TOP weight BOLLIN WILLIAM bolted up by 10 lengths on his reappearance at Bangor eight days ago , and will be very hard to beat in this less competitive contest off just an 8lb higher mark . |
| 3 | England vice-captain Alec Stewart weighed in with six catches behind the stumps as Glamorgan , with broken thumb victim Matthew Maynard , slumped to 24–5 . |
| 4 | Pepys moved around from public places to coffee houses and taverns hoping to do business . |
| 5 | CHRIS Waddle limped off after 38 minutes with troubled knee ligaments after his £1million move to Sheffield Wednesday from Marseilles . |
| 6 | However , Queen 's will be struggling for a scrum-half with former Irish Schools ' skipper Kenton Hillman ruled out for two months because of a shoulder injury , while centre Gerry Ross is heading for Trinity . |
| 7 | ( Morley moved on to greater things as Britain 's leading rock journalist and then even greater things as the mentor behind Frankie Goes To Hollywood ) . |
| 8 | Nine years ago when the pair met in Montreal , Leonard taunted his opponent to the limits of frustration and Duran walked out after eight rounds calling : ‘ No mas . ’ |
| 9 | A picture of Nicolae Ceauşescu looked down over these proceedings , which were graced by the presence of the Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin , Mrs Thatcher 's former chemistry tutor at Oxford ( though she had no sympathy for ‘ that woman ’ ) who had contributed an introduction to an English translation of one of Elena 's works . |
| 10 | Things went Charlton 's way against a Sunderland side that had John Kay sent off after 15 minutes and then conceded two bizarre second-half own goals . |
| 11 | I found it incredibly erotic , and the more Dennis maundered on about boiled sweets on the nose , the more erotic it became . |
| 12 | Brechin had midfielder Doug Scott sent off after 60 minutes for his second booking . |
| 13 | Following the formal request for a special prosecutor , Attorney General William Barr had up to 30 days to make a preliminary ruling . |
| 14 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 15 | At this gesture both he and O'Rourke burst out into riotous giggles . |
| 16 | Jim came back with some clothes over his arms and stood at the door , while Bella very slowly told Albert to come and be interviewed next week for a job as a public-relations officer in their department store . |
| 17 | This Bobby did , and was cautiously treating himself to oysters at the bar when Minton came in with some sailors and bade him join them . |
| 18 | The County Ground fans were in despair but Swindon roared back with 2 goals in 6 minutes . |
| 19 | but Sale came back with ten points in ten minutes and were still going strong when the whistle went … too close for comfort |
| 20 | Ballymena led Striders in the early stages when Ian Neely won the 400 metres hurdles impressively in 54.9 and team-mate Douglas Thom took the ‘ B ’ event , but Annadale hit back with maximum points through Ian Craig ( 100m ‘ A ’ 10.8 ) , Johnny Anderson ( 100m ‘ B ’ 11.00 ) and Mike Atkinson ( discus 40.46 ) . |
| 21 | That 's what Oxford thought and they were very nearly punished , as the Geordies hit back with 2 goals in 4 minutes . |
| 22 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 23 | He and Eva went out on long walks together , or to the cinema at the ICA to see Scorsese films and exhibitions of dirty nappies . |
| 24 | the Communards lay in with numbered tags |
| 25 | Rincewind looked up at grinning men . |
| 26 | However , Crues went back in front thanks to that Burrows/Hunter combination . |
| 27 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 28 | Jane held on with both hands , gazing ahead at Molly 's legs , counting every step , praying she would reach the top before the whole thing collapsed beneath their weight and they all fell , helpless , into the water below . |
| 29 | Bunny and Martin wandered over with more drinks but Dod never made it past the darts game . |
| 30 | In Ajdabiya ( where , additionally , the layout of houses was less elastic than in the south ) , the younger and educated sons of Musbah Ifkairin moved out into new houses nearby , leaving the eldest brother with their father . |