Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have often succumbed to the graceful , bronzed beauty of Michael Deere and Terence Wade 's limbs as they power into action and imagine not John Motson or Alan Hansen commentating on another blistering attack , but David Attenborough in mildly hushed tones , comparing our boys with leaping gazelles or sprightly cheetahs . |
| 2 | Only a very small proportion was published : Antony Holborne 's Pavans , Galliards , Almains and Morley 's First Booke of Consort Lessons ( both 1599 ) , Dowland 's Lachrimae or Seaven Teares figured in seaven passionate Pavans … ( 1605 ) , Rosseter 's Lessons for Consort ( 1609 ) , two fantasias which Byrd included in Psalmes , Songs , and Sonnets ( 1611 ) and John Adson 's Courtly Masquing Ayres ( also 1611 ) . |
| 3 | The newly styled firm of G. & J. Cary continued at 86 St James 's Street until 1850 , although apparently it ceased cartographic publication c .1846 . |
| 4 | It was to have been discussed at the next Shanks & McEwan board meeting in early October . |
| 5 | Spend a week on Mahe to relax and unwind , then board your Twin Otter or Trislander flight bound for one of the smaller islands … |
| 6 | The Marcoses may have stashed away well over a billion dollars plus other Philippino assets , in the USA , Switzerland and elsewhere , but neither Nicolae nor Elena Ceauşescu felt under any compulsion to insure themselves against a rainy day . |
| 7 | Neither William Hartnell , Maureen O'Brien nor Peter Purves appeared in this episode for a complex set of reasons traceable right back to ‘ Planet of Giants ’ . |
| 8 | Needless to say , the cairn crumbled , probably sabotaged by a disgruntled worker who got home to find he 'd already read this particular volume of Gaelic poetry , and Ben Lawers remains at 3,984 feet . |
| 9 | I drank mint tea in the carpet shops ( and found Stefan Grappelli , Bryan Ferry and Ben Kingsley listed in one shop 's order book ) . |
| 10 | MIKE TOMCZAK , the Chicago Bears quarterback , threw for three touchdowns and Neal Anderson rushed for another as Chicago staved off a fourth-quarter rally by the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night to win 27-13 . |
| 11 | Jim Kelly threw three touchdown passes and Thurman Thomas rushed for 155 yards as the Buffalo Bills won their AFC showdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers 28–20 . |
| 12 | On the walls , pictures of Mecca and General Zia mingle with gaudy Alpine scenes . |
| 13 | Government and EEC subsidies result in gross over-capitalization on nearly every farm in the land . |
| 14 | There is a default on the 8 per cent Czechoslovak Republic dollar bonds of 1922 , and also on the Cities of Greater Prague and Carlsbad bonds issued in 1924 . |
| 15 | The facades of 106 houses were rapidly built , but it was another twenty years or more before many of the interiors were begun and Kemp Town stayed for some time rather like a giant film set with the image of grandeur propped up by heavy wooden beams . |
| 16 | Talbot and Van Gelder looked at each other in silence , then bent forward over Theodore 's shoulders to look at the figures he had added up . |
| 17 | PAT CRERAND AND JIM BAXTER PREPARE FOR ANOTHER SCOTTISH MISSION |
| 18 | Willie Allen and Jim Baxter clashed on many occasions but by far the most bizarre was the Scottish cup final replay of 1963 when Baxter played an influential role in Rangers 3–0 victory over Celtic . |
| 19 | Bart Czirr and Gary Jensen worked on this for the next several months in between teaching duties as the new university year had now begun . |
| 20 | Medau eventually stretched across the border to SUFFOLK when Rosemary High and Marlene McGee qualified in 1972/3 . |
| 21 | Aldercine Hodson , Ruth Lawrence and Moya Hood taught in this area from the late sixties , but more recently Aldercine has been concentrating on classes with Active Retirement Clubs , as well as people with other special needs , and has organised several Sport/Fun Days for people with disabilities . |
| 22 | And Richard North looks at current provisions for the destruction of PCBs , and at the history of British involvement in a rather uncomfortable growth industry The security guard at the entrance to one of Britain 's mightiest hazardous waste disposal plants pressed a button and the gate opened . |
| 23 | Other winners included Michael Weadall ( youths 1500m 4:16.1 ) , and Darren Bunn ( colts 1500m 4:53.1 ) , while the middlesbrough youths 4 x 100 metres team of Lee Thompson , Darren Watkins , Richard Atha and Richard Mellor won in 46.7 secs . |
| 24 | FIVE years ago the only things that Phoenix and Kuwait city had in common were a desert setting and an urban landscape of glittering modern buildings . |
| 25 | The Blackpool and Fleetwood line opened in 1898 , the track from the Gynn to Talbot Road Station being constructed by the Corporation and leased to the Company for twenty-one years . |
| 26 | Miss Florence and Miss Belle leant against each other , and Miss Rene , trying to quell her own laughter , admonished her sisters : ‘ Stop spluttering , you two . |
| 27 | Alton Social Services are hoping to attract a lot of new foster carers in the Alton and Bordon areas to coincide with National Foster Week , and a change in the whole concept of foster care . |
| 28 | As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence . |
| 29 | The examples of Sugar Ray Robinson , Henry Armstrong and Ike Williams attest to this and heavyweight boxing was dominated by black boxers almost totally from 1937 . |
| 30 | He told Helen he must have gone off his head : he had written three lots of verses in one week ( including the one on Old Margaret and Headington Hill printed in Collected Poems , p. 458 ) . |