Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At roughly the same stage , Arsenal also went through a dire spell with a similar sequence of only one goal from six outings . |
| 2 | There was no pretence of archaeological intentions — the subject had n't evolved by then — Pompeii simply acted as a large open pit mine for works of art . |
| 3 | Ross duly appeared in a multi-million pound advertising campaign and the rest , as they say , is history . |
| 4 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 5 | AGE CONCERN Scotland yesterday called for a public debate on methods of restraint applied to frail elderly people cared for in residential homes or by relatives . |
| 6 | NEW European flyweight champion Robbie Regan yesterday agreed to a voluntary defence of his title against Danny Porter in Cardiff on January 19 . |
| 7 | England also began with a 3-0 win , against Finland . |
| 8 | Corbett nodded , smiled his thanks and went over to where Alexander now slouched in a half-drunken stupor . |
| 9 | Maggie now slept on a low bed draped with a Chinese spread covered in dancing dragons and spinning suns , exactly underneath the centre of these windows , and on clear nights the moon rode over her head , and the clouds , illuminated a sickly yellow by the vastness of the city , would race past . |
| 10 | England then equalised with a controversial Webb penalty seven minutes before the break to leave it 3–3 at the interval . |
| 11 | Cilla Black once got into a shouting match at a charity show when she tried to cry up her beloved Thatcher and met with voluble consumer resistance . |
| 12 | Despite these understandable teething problems , McKenzie quickly blossomed as a leading Victoria Schools rugby player and toured the United Kingdom with the state in the early 1980s . |
| 13 | Fine Gael also called for a full public inquiry before exploration began . |
| 14 | Prestwick 's David Gourlay , jun , and Robert McCulloch never recovered from a disastrous start against the Welsh pair of Stephen Rees and John Price who held a 15-0 six-end lead and went on to win 28-11 . |
| 15 | Now it seems more or less acknowledged , as Rab Butler once said of a beleaguered Harold Macmillan , that ‘ he 's the best leader we 've got . ’ |
| 16 | Manoon Rupkachorn also re-emerged as a fresh source of military-government tension during 1990 . |
| 17 | Exxon even acceded to a Saudi request to provide information on their supplies to US military bases worldwide . |
| 18 | With his fasting and commitment to non-violence , the diminutive Chavez often seemed like a Spanish-speaking Gandhi . |
| 19 | Lord Edmund-Davies similarly arrived at a narrower conclusion than Lord Diplock . |
| 20 | As well as arguing for a more liberal attitude towards the child , Locke also pleaded for a broader curriculum . |
| 21 | Mr Boyd told them that the name ‘ Buller ’ derived from the French bouloir , reduced by local folk to ‘ the Pot ’ , in which cauldron Dr Johnson now gambolled with a certain heartiness , speculating upon the depth of the caves , and their uses for smugglers and pirates , or shelters for boatmen : Mr Boyd also told them of people from Peterhead holding picnics in one of the caverns . |
| 22 | When a taxi-driver took the band to the wrong side of town earlier in the day , the Franks simply sat on a nearby wall , chilled out and waited for ‘ someone else ’ to panic and discover their whereabouts . |
| 23 | Barbara Goalen seldom appeared without a liberal helping of diamonds or pearls at throat , wrist and ears . |
| 24 | As mentioned above , although the exiled inhabitants of Siberia never amounted to a large proportion of the total population , nevertheless they did make a significant quantitative and qualitative contribution during the seventeenth century to the region 's manpower resources — accounting for around 11 per cent of the total , and engaged in a variety of administrative , military , clerical and agricultural occupations essential to the proper management of the newly-conquered territories . |
| 25 | But , despite the slump , profits in the six months to September still grew by a theoretical 5% to £10.26m ( true comparisons are impossible post-float ) . |
| 26 | The beams from these two heaters covered the whole of the lambing pen , 18ft. x 6ft. in area , which Peter also covered with a liberal quantity of straw on the floor . |
| 27 | Second-placed Durham never recovered from a three goal blast in the first 20 minutes at Ryhope , going down 4–2 . |
| 28 | On paper , Olympia & York still looked like a good thing to the institutions who gave their money . |
| 29 | Meyer also ran in a cross- country in Durham earlier this year but that time the ‘ chill factor ’ was too much for her , and she did not perform well . |
| 30 | JOHN Major today battled against a double dose of post-holiday blues over the threat of a tax hike and a grassroots revolt against VAT on domestic fuel . |