Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm bookies yesterday slashed odds on Prince William becoming the next king because of an exclusive Sun story , I do n't think . |
| 2 | Goalkeeper Bolder off his line , punched away only to Andy Melville on the edge of the penalty area ; Melville ran forward after picking up the loose ball , hammered it forward , Martin Foyle getting the last touch of the ball into the corner of the net , and United now seemingly pushing forward towards three points . |
| 3 | Blyth Wright starting the first pitch of The Bat — the traverse to the Hoodie Groove . |
| 4 | Another defeat , this time by Wigan , was the 13th of the season at Feethams , with Bury scoring a second half winner to finish the away programme on a sad note the 16th on tour . |
| 5 | There were some highlights from Bristol , some back-row charges , a 50-yard passing movement which saw Doug Woodman scoring the first of his two tries , and Paul Collings making a solo break for the third . |
| 6 | Joe Ropati scored a final try for Warrington , with Turner adding a sixth goal . |
| 7 | Mandy Langridge , the England Under-21 striker , scored twice with Jane Jagger getting the third as Ealing took advantage of the idleness enforced on Slough and Sutton Coldfield because of the international matches .. |
| 8 | An early mistake by Liam Dunne which led to Jim McInally chipping the 14th minute opener past Rhodes set the pattern for the game . |
| 9 | In division four , St. Phillips ( Tony Johnson ) beat New Adlam 2-1 with Mark Ellis scoring an 86th minute winner . |
| 10 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 11 | He says he had no idea that Surrey had received two warnings in 1990 and 1991 until the summons arrived from the TCCB citing a third instance , against Leicestershire last month , and referring to the two previous offences . |
| 12 | They were in control from start to finish , with Don Caskie scoring the first try midway through the first half . |
| 13 | The game has been adjourned after six hours ' play with Short sealing the 61st move in an envelope . |
| 14 | Malone took immediate control on a mud bath pitch , Richard Cullen kicking a fourth minute penalty . |
| 15 | Frank Connor jumping the last on his way to a win in the Gold Cup . |
| 16 | They did have the consolation of a team medal , however , and only Sudbury 's Steve Jones prevented RTE taking a first five clean sweep . |
| 17 | This was on the basis of continued strong earnings growth throughout the recession , with Wolters Kluwer achieving a first half jump of 39% in after-tax earnings and forecasting a 20% rise for the whole of 1992 , and Elsevier predicting a rise of 16% for the full year . |
| 18 | As rivals in the individual stakes , though , McColgan starts as the leading British challenger and is strongly fancied to stop American Lynn Jennings claiming a third successive title . |
| 19 | Close co-operation between SWAPO and the Nordic countries continued , with Sweden , Denmark , Finland and Norway contributing a third of all Western promised at the June international donors ' conference . |
| 20 | Perhaps she was more fiery in the days of her youth , when her agitation and organized campaigns resulted in Manitoba becoming the first Canadian province to grant the franchise to women . |
| 21 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 22 | The following day King Birendra addressed a rally in Kathmandu marking the 29th anniversary of the abolition of multiparty government and its replacement by a non-party system . |
| 23 | But Wigan had the final say when Betts strolled through three tackles from 20 yards out to score , with Kiwi Frano Botica adding a third goal . |
| 24 | After arriving only 20 minutes before kick-off due to heavy traffic , Warrington were caught cold and trailed 2-0 after just eight minutes , with Great Harwood adding a third goal before the interval . |
| 25 | Although Laurie led the first day of the 1957 Open jointly with Eric Brown and Flory Van Donck , he was to finish out of the top twenty , Bobby Locke taking the last of his four Championship titles . |
| 26 | There I found Phil and Mike discussing the next move . |
| 27 | This is Anne Loye receiving the First Prize in a Fitness competition held at a Butlin 's Holiday Camp . |
| 28 | IN ALL the ballyhoo over Durham becoming the 18th first-class county , strangely little has been offered in respect of their chances of actually winning something . |
| 29 | Amazingly , all four goals came from free kicks , with Brentford 's transfer-seeking defender Bates heading the first after 13 minutes from a Billy Manuel free kick . |
| 30 | Amazingly all four goals came from free kicks with Brentford 's transfer seeking defender Bates heading the first after 13 minutes from a Billy Manuel free kick . |