Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days were getting shorter and colder , and with Christmas approaching there was so much to do in the kitchen Sarah rarely had a spare minute . |
| 2 | But Kelly only completed the seventh three-timer of his career after a battle with Gavin Peacock , Newcastle 's regular penalty-taker . |
| 3 | It was made tiny by the three men standing around the bed , but Patrick only recognized the bearded Dan Brady . |
| 4 | United and Iliffe alone had no national press interests . |
| 5 | The fact that Brolly began work as a barrister last March obviously meant a complete change in lifestyle , and that coincided with a loss in form . |
| 6 | Men such as Syd obviously took a great deal of pride in their work — woe betide a fireman or fitter who did not do a good job ! |
| 7 | The Netherlands swiftly became the largest gas exporter in the world and despite importing almost all its other fuel , managed to become a net energy exporter and even occasionally to make a profit on the energy account . |
| 8 | Eddie 's actress wife Patsy Ann Scott secretly filmed the roly-poly star as he snoozed in bed . |
| 9 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 10 | As demand for food rose , the United States suddenly became a major exporter of agricultural goods , the surplus on that account rising from $1½ billion in 1972 to $10½ billion in 1974 . |
| 11 | The NL especially suffered a major split because of its refusal after 1906 to endorse Conservative candidates . |
| 12 | The most extraordinary aspect of this unrelenting interference was that Ceauşescu obviously had no clear picture of what he wanted in his mind . |
| 13 | Vietnam was expensive ; whereas , at the time of Korea , there was a dollar shortage , and increased spending by the United States merely stimulated the American economy , at the time of Vietnam , increased spending led to inflation and a trade deficit . |
| 14 | Edward apparently intended the later grant to stand , and on 7July ordered Stanley and his servants to cease meddling in the offices granted to Gloucester . |
| 15 | Edward apparently intended the later grant to stand , and on 7July ordered Stanley and his servants to cease meddling in the offices granted to Gloucester . |
| 16 | Wright somehow avoided the feared fracture when Lewis hit the index finger of his left hand . |
| 17 | Robert Meaby , whose brother Brian and the Eastbourne captain had been on the wrong end of a five and four beating in the bottom match , had with Christopher Walker already enjoyed a fair share of excitement , halving the shorter length with a birdie putt after Shrewsbury had chipped in for a two . |
| 18 | Once the original rearmament furore had subsided , WEU largely became a useless appendage , existing passively within NATO . |
| 19 | By then , Branson already had an alternative tactic in mind . |
| 20 | Apart from the movement over the Downs , the Germanic settlers moved inland along the rivers ; the attack on the Weald already had the Romano-British experience to build on and , given the distribution of the rivers , can be seen as a pincer movement rather than a direct push northwards . |
| 21 | For all his qualities , which are many , in those days Dennis still had a huge chip on his shoulder . |
| 22 | THE United States yesterday ordered a quick reaction force into the southern Somali port of Kismayu to investigate militia fighting that led to the suspension of national reconciliation talks in Addis Ababa . |
| 23 | THE commander of Serbian forces annexing large areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina yesterday mocked the international recognition of the former Yugoslavian republic . |
| 24 | Roy Fredericks always favoured the square cut . |
| 25 | PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday made an impassioned call for a Marxist-Leninist single party state in Zimbabwe . |
| 26 | Faldo still enjoyed a three-stroke cushion , but the pumped-up Australian resembled an executioner as he hacked away at the Open champion 's lead . |
| 27 | Crosby yesterday described the continuing speculation as ‘ disruptive ’ . |
| 28 | AC MILAN striker Marco van Basten yesterday won the European Footballer of the Year award for the third time . |
| 29 | But the American High Commissioner in West Germany and the American commander-elect of NATO lent their voices to the idea , and the United States quickly became an important supporter of the project . |
| 30 | Warrington-based Greenall Whitley yesterday became the latest brewer to complain that the squeeze on spending is starting to hit beer sales . |