Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb past] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a short blast and six monitors took up position at the top of the lower playground . |
| 2 | Brett and Masala flanked the back door and the other three bodyguards took up positions on the other side of the car , facing the photographers . |
| 3 | ‘ The Queen ! ’ said the second gardener suddenly , and at once , the three gardeners lay down flat on their faces . |
| 4 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 5 | In its first year , more than 180,000 students took out loans worth some £70 million . |
| 6 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 7 | ONE of Miami 's most racially charged trials in recent years was nearing a climax yesterday , as the jury deliberated on the fate of a Hispanic policeman whose killing of two blacks sparked off rioting in January . |
| 8 | ‘ The amateurs in the two teams went out grouse-shooting during the morning ’ , disclosed one account of Surrey against Derbyshire at Glossop in 1902 . |
| 9 | Madness , who attracted 65,000 fans to the two concerts netted over £100,000 in merchandising sales and now plan a full-scale British tour . |
| 10 | Another two jackets hung on hangers on pegs on the wall . |
| 11 | He ordered McAllister to stop giving her chloroform and the two girls worked busily side by side . |
| 12 | It had rained for a fortnight when he , his wife and two children took up residence in the 12 room Ben Alder Lodge . |
| 13 | The broadcasters were able to enliven their reports by incorporating actuality clips from the Chamber in about one-third of their parliamentary news stories , and these clips averaged between 25 and 77 seconds in duration , depending on the programme , which usually comprised about a quarter of the story ( exceptionally , BBC2 's Newsnight had longer stories , averaging eight minutes , and its average actuality length of 49.5 seconds comprised only 10% of these items ) . |
| 14 | NEWCASTLE 'S Gavin Peacock is on course for his best goalscoring season after his 11th goal in 20 games killed off WATFORD in a 2–0 victory . |