Example sentences of "followed in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet 24 hours later this same Ian Woosnam , who a year ago followed in the footsteps of Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo by winning the Masters at Augusta National , was threatening to do so again , until the thunder and lightning affected his revival early in the third round . |
| 2 | Another colourful signing was the Reverend Hubert Jolly , who followed in the footsteps of that other great sporting cleric , W. G. Grace , although W. G. was a cricketer not a footballer and a doctor not a vicar . |
| 3 | There were few chuckles in this heavy duty drama , which followed in the footsteps of Widows , Prime Suspect Civvies . |
| 4 | There were few chuckles in this heavy duty drama , which followed in the footsteps of Widows , Prime Suspect Civvies . |
| 5 | There were few chuckles in this heavy duty drama , which followed in the footsteps of Widows , Prime Suspect Civvies . |
| 6 | He followed in the footsteps of his predecessor , Archbishop William Temple , who consecrated the church on May 28 , 1932 . |
| 7 | Islington JS followed in the footsteps of their all-conquering home team , FA Cup winners Arsenal , when they raised the winner 's trophy at the first Central and Western area five-a-side tournament on May 23 . |
| 8 | Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in . |
| 9 | The 25-year-old from New Orleans spent much of the season in the shadow of Kevin Mitchell , the man he followed in the Giants ' batting line-up and the leader in home runs and RBIs in the majors . |
| 10 | Simply used as a marketing term , to designate a fashionable commodity , it might also have appealed to publishers , had it been available at the time , as a packaging for the wave of fiction that followed in the tracks of Eco and Calvino in the early and mid-1980s , and for which no better epithet could be found than ‘ new ’ or ‘ young ’ ( despite a number of its representatives being somewhat less than youthful ) . |
| 11 | We followed in the tracks of hares . |