Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The cantata ends with Dido still speaking in the first person .
2 Admittedly , the background was exceptional ; the true beneficiaries of the waiver were the allies , who did not want Germany 's economic resources to be diminished through claims from States previously allied to the Third Reich .
3 For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle .
4 The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page .
5 Ruth nearly choked on the last crumb of her pastry .
6 WORLD No 1 Dennis Priestley reached the last 64 of the British Open darts last night but former world champions Bob Anderson and Keith Deller both lost in the third round .
7 Ireland nearly equalised in the second , but were held back and Sandra Colamartino scored her second try for Scotland in the final minutes .
8 A stench , which Franca now noticed for the first time , arose from the bed .
9 This room is inhabited by Bardul , a hunchback Dwarf , who is a pivotal NPC fully described in the next chapter ( pp 70–72 ) and in the Profiles section .
10 THE TV presenter Fiona Armstrong yesterday spoke for the first time about why she has quit the breakfast station GMTV — and dismissed talk about the notorious ‘ F ( for fanciability ) factor ’ .
11 On March 18 Najibullah formally announced for the first time that he was prepared to resign to further the progress of a UN peace plan , the initial aim of which was to establish an interim , all-party government [ see p. 38811 ] .
12 The death of Aegidius was recorded within the account of the Loire wars in the Angers chronicle , and his son Syagrius later appears as the first of the opponents and victims of Childeric 's son Clovis .
13 Federal Boiotia probably began in the sixth century ( there are Boiotarchs at Hdt. ix .
14 There is also talk of an eight-way desktop/deskside called SunBox again touted for the second calendar quarter .
15 Germany also began during the first years of the twentieth century to make some patchy and sporadic provision of much the same kind for her trade interests abroad .
16 However , Murray also admitted for the first time how close she came to quitting after Barcelona .
17 Roberts 's fifty included an over from Botham from which he hit twenty-four runs ( 462660 ) , a new Test record for a six-ball over , and Lloyd finally declared on the third morning at 426 for 9 .
18 SO HOW DID YOU GET ON SPOTting the errors in the picture Guinness Today published in the last issue as part of the new PRoPS initiative at Park Royal ?
19 The Thai , who captured the World Matchplay title in December , stayed alive with decisive breaks of 38 and 36 in frame 13 but Hendry then prevailed in the 14th .
20 There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information .
21 Although her owners had tried every method of finding her , including local radio appeals , Tim Charlesworth eventually turned to the last resort of hiring a helicopter to help in the search .
22 Voters lined up before dawn in Chad yesterday to participate in the first national election in 20 years in this war-torn former French colony .
23 Juliet almost ran to the first house , which sported a wooden sign behind a straggly hawthorn hedge .
24 Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing .
25 The population of London nearly trebled between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries and , suddenly , the city people wanted meat .
26 The earliest recorded mention of Aksum is in the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea probably written in the second century AD .
27 Leicester substitute Ian Ormondroyd almost equalised in the 64th minute , but Nelson made it safe with his second in the 77th minute with a low , curling 20-yard shot .
28 James Best married for a second and third time , and had two daughters and a son by his second wife .
29 The green eye flashed at Culley then settled on the next drink .
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