Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 2 | Manville picked up the second folder , sighing heavily . |
| 3 | German Euro Commissioner Martin Bangemann opened up a second front by claiming the Maastricht Treaty was a milestone on the road to a federal Europe . |
| 4 | The house in Denbigh Terrace , which was his home during and after his marriage to Kristen Tomassi , had been progressively colonised by the office ; Nik Powell took over the first floor ; board meetings were conducted in the lounge ; paperwork spilled into the bedrooms . |
| 5 | Felipe was still having breakfast when Maggie went down the next morning , and it caught her off guard . |
| 6 | Nicandra pounded down the second flight of the back staircase leading to the ground floor — here one imposing door marked the entrance to the hall , another was the service door into the dining room . |
| 7 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 8 | Johnny Jamieson picked up a first half knock in the 2– defeat by Portadown but he is expected to be fit in time for Saturday . |
| 9 | When Mary woke up the next morning , she saw a young servant girl cleaning the fireplace . |
| 10 | Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle . |
| 11 | Conrad Allen put in a first appearance on the track in the 600 metres at Crawley . |
| 12 | I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West Passage . |
| 13 | The Beech Naiad let out a last cry of desolation , and fell to the floor . |
| 14 | And then Jayne filled in the first day . |
| 15 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 16 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 17 | On Sept. 17 , Polish inspectors in the Netherlands carried out the first inspection of a NATO member state by a unit from a Warsaw Pact country . |
| 18 | In 1987 detectors in Japan and America picked up a ten-second burst of neutrinos from the collapse of a giant star . |
| 19 | Dexter drew out the second drawer with more hope . |
| 20 | Urquhart gulped down a fourth glass . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , having had far too much to drink , Clare woke up the next morning in James 's bed , saw that it was nearly nine o'clock , fled to work in her crumpled clothes but arrived late again . |
| 22 | When Clare woke up the next morning , the sky was grey and the sun was not shining . |
| 23 | Leeds started out the second half the way they played the first , but lost their way badly during the course with Oldham coming back into the game strongly . |
| 24 | The poster has been displayed on Underground stations throughout London as part of the ‘ Art on the Underground ’ series , and on hand to help Adrian put up the first poster , naturally at The Oval station , was veteran commentator and director of The Cricketer , Brian Johnston ( both pictured left ) . |