Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical details of the machine , developed at IBM 's Highly Parallel Supercomputing Systems Laboratories , were reported in detail last November following previews at Supercomputing ‘ 92 in Minneapolis ( UX No 412 ) . |
| 2 | He was discharged from hospital last night , with the full extent of the damage still not known , and manager Ian Porterfield admitted : ‘ This is a big , big blow for us . |
| 3 | They said their last guy got slung in jail last night . ’ |
| 4 | FORON was rescued from liquidation last year by the environmental group Greenpeace , which collected enough advance orders for the Clean Cooler to interest a British-Kuwaiti-German investment group in the firm . |
| 5 | Apparently not only had I collapsed on stage last night , but I was having intravenous chemotherapy between shows , sobbing and grimacing in agony in my dressing room . |
| 6 | I had come on leave first , so I was first to return . |
| 7 | Buzz is owned by Luck Next Leisure , which also owns Perry 's nearby . |
| 8 | Arrests were made as Earth First ! members adopted the group 's traditional tactics of direct action by chaining themselves to bulldozers . |
| 9 | She turned to see the maid-of-all-work from St Jude 's Rectory , whom she had met after church last Sunday , staring at her . |
| 10 | She waited a few moments then turned into East 48th Street , still pretending to look in the shop windows as she walked . |
| 11 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 12 | Murray Pugh , a trainee P-E teacher , was stabbed to death last weekend . |
| 13 | Doctor Elizabeth Howe , from Oxford , was stabbed to death last July while attending a summer school at York University . |
| 14 | A Bill will be presented to Parliament next session to pave the way for the new ‘ shadow ’ councils to be elected next year so they can take over on April 1 , 1995 . |
| 15 | Originally thought to be a separate species , the quagga was hunted to extinction last century , but its genes appear to have survived , dispersed among plains zebra . |
| 16 | You see , he 's got thousands of titles and things , and she likes him into the bargain ; also she wants me to be presented at court next year — as his wife . |
| 17 | The hotel which had been gutted by fire last year , re-opened for business during August . |
| 18 | Someone a few doors away had their house gutted by fire last week . |
| 19 | However , enhancements such as the ToolTalk communications package , Open Look toolkits and Open Windows 3.0 environment have been added to its SunOS and Solaris operating systems , and other additions , including the object-oriented Distributed Object Maintenance Framework will be incorporated by springtime next year . |
| 20 | Well look back to the factors needed for life first of all . |
| 21 | The winning entry will be produced for sale next year , but in the meantime , all the money raised will go to help Romanian orphans . |
| 22 | ‘ If I have n't died of hunger first , ’ she said with asperity . |
| 23 | NORSK HYDRO , Norway 's largest industrial concern , which draws 90 per cent of its operating income from North Sea oil and gas , was helped into profit last year by a change in tax accounting methods . |
| 24 | Also complete the digging of any area to be sown with grass next month |
| 25 | I was told in confidence last week , so by next week it will be public , that there are to be 200 redundancies now , and the rest will , hopefully , be effected by natural wastage . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps I should have got in touch first ? ’ |
| 27 | Mick had argued his case forcefully , and I had reluctantly agreed to camp next to them . |
| 28 | But after almost everyone had tiptoed tipsily to bed , one couple — or so I was told over breakfast next day — stayed behind in the darkened dome-car and made love softly , to the rhythm of the rails . |
| 29 | LONDON was plunged into chaos last night when two of its busiest rail stations were closed for three hours by a bomb scare . |
| 30 | To water hanging baskets and containers with the drips and spills , try freezing plastic bottles filled with water first . |