Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result will also give a huge lift to Alex Ferguson 's Manchester United team who were originally due to travel to Norwich today but went there instead on Tuesday and pulled off a significant victory . |
| 2 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 3 | She hugged Katherine and stretched out a welcoming hand to Portia . |
| 4 | In those days , the road leaving Tomdoun was the only way over to Cluanie and Glen Shiel from the south : it crossed the River Loyne and climbed over an intervening ridge before descending to Cluanie . |
| 5 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
| 6 | A feasibility study funded by Pat Hicks and conducted over a six month period confirmed this , although subsequent funds and the original idea of an M.I. ‘ franchise'-type system for the UK were not forthcoming and the British operation was left to proceed independently . |
| 7 | A semi-finalist in last month 's Canadian Open , Meddings totally dominated Davies and ran out a comfortable 15-12 , 15-10 , 15-10 winner in just over half an hour . |
| 8 | A semi-finalist in last month 's Canadian Open , Meddings totally dominated Davies and ran out a comfortable 15-12 , 15-10 , 15-10 winner in just over half an hour . |
| 9 | Charlie went straight up to the room that he shared with Terry and put on a Fine Young Cannibals tape . |
| 10 | From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . |
| 11 | Local opinion denied their involvement in terrorism , and John Hume , local SDLP MP , persuaded his party to demand an official inquiry , failing which it would withdraw from Stormont and set up an alternative assembly … |
| 12 | The Siemens family maintained both British and German connections , for William 's brother Werner remained in Berlin and built up a great electrical engineering business there , making among other things the first trams . |