Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of Taiwanese rallied yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of an anti-government riot and demand the release of dissidents involved in the 1979 incident . |
| 2 | THE OAKLAND Athletics came back to win the first game of the best-of-seven American League championship series with a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays , on Tuesday . |
| 3 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
| 4 | But Rachel hated not to have the last word . |
| 5 | He caught a train from Paddington to Reading , arrived there to find the last train to Goring and Streatley had gone , and , after a considerable wait , got a minicab . |
| 6 | ‘ They all rushed off to do the next scene . |
| 7 | They dropped their kedge anchor 200 yards offshore and settled down to await the first wave of assault craft . |
| 8 | Rees , however , hit back to take the second set 7-5 and then moved 6-2 ahead in the next but Gourlay replied with two doubles and a single to take the set 7-6 . |
| 9 | Clashes also continued within Turkey itself during this period , and some 40 people were reported to have been killed in separate incidents , the worst of these occurring on Aug. 16 when 14 Kurds and five troops and police died as demonstrations broke out to mark the eighth anniversary of the separatist rebellions of 1983 [ see pp. 33037-38 ] . |
| 10 | His total of 275 was 13 under par , four outside the record , and he also failed narrowly to become the first man to score in the 60s in every round . |
| 11 | The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm . |
| 12 | Hero McCullough even went on to take the third round in his victory over the tough Cuban Joel Casamayor . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 14 | He went on to chide the Fifth Army : |
| 15 | This led in Britain to the setting up the Meteorological Office under Captain FitzRoy , formerly of HMS Beagle , who went on to make the first weather forecasts in Britain . |
| 16 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 17 | Its opening track , the self-assertive rap ‘ Sassy ’ , for instance is a pairing with Guru and DJ Premier of Gang Starr , who went on to contribute a second track . |
| 18 | Mayers then went on to add a first pitch ( ! ) to the line by climbing the left hand section of Right Wall between Cenotaph Corner and Lord of the Flies . |
| 19 | He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country . |
| 20 | Maybe despite or because of failing ‘ O ’ levels she went on to become the first woman engineer at her college because her earlier setbacks had made her determined to prove that she could succeed . |
| 21 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 22 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 23 | One of her earliest pupils , in whom she had a great deal of confidence , was Brighton 's Julie Pullin who poignantly won her first women 's international title on the African satellite , 48 hours before Winnie died , and who went on to win a second title two weeks later . |
| 24 | Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 . |
| 25 | Mario went on to win the next race at the Glen and the championship by a handsome margin , with Ronnie posthumously second . |
| 26 | White faced the official carpeting , defused the attacks with a firm but polite dignity , and went off to catch the next train unaffected by the experience . |
| 27 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 28 | To his right the hill rose up above where he stood , then fell again to meet the next turn of the river . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom chose dutifully to implement the Fourth Directive on Company Accounts without waiting , as some other member States did , for the adoption of the Seventh Directive on Group Accounts . |
| 30 | Two of a series of five stamps issued today to mark the 14th World Orchid Conference depict Papua and New Guinea orchids Dendrobium hellwigianum , on the 18p stamp , and Dendrobium vexillarius on the 39p stamp , that Paddy Woods has spent 30 years investigating . |