Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards ' brilliant support play earned him four tries before the break and six in the second half to take his season 's tally to 15 — six ahead of Halifax centre Greg Austin . |
| 2 | Matthew Barbrooke restored Lowestoft 's lead when heading home Paul Mobbs 's cross , but they were denied their first win in eight matches when Gary Taylor made it 3–3 on 74 minutes . |
| 3 | For 20 minutes Middlesbrough ran us ragged . |
| 4 | The whole walk from Milngavie to Fort William took us six days . ’ |
| 5 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 6 | Successful collaboration during the first Whitehall study made it easier to agree on potentially difficult issues such as obtaining sickness absence records from the pay centres . |
| 7 | Indeed , Roberts herself makes the point that , for example , Anderson 's reliance upon census data made it difficult for him to see the extent of exchanges across households . |
| 8 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 9 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 10 | But Jim Walker told me that , despite these good developments , he was worried that the new system for community care might be underresourced . |
| 11 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 12 | In the morning Miss Temple found me asleep , with Helen Burns dead in my arms . |
| 13 | The straight forward design and short wheel base made it ideal for negotiating the sharp curves of the Welshpool line . |
| 14 | Miss Ellis shook her long blonde hair back off her shoulders . |
| 15 | It is hardly surprising that in the aftermath of the First World War , when there was a rising current of anti-militarism , the Boy Scout Association felt it necessary to issue a disclaimer in 1920 : ‘ Our Scouting has nothing to do with SOLDIERING ; it is merely the practice of backwoodsmanship … |
| 16 | These occasions would clearly refer only to the more serious incidents where the Football Association felt it necessary to discipline clubs formally , and many more examples of hooliganism can be found in the newspapers of the period . |
| 17 | In 1936 the Football Association found it necessary to issue a memorandum on rough play , in an attempt to stamp out excessive violence and the ‘ professional foul ’ which is so often identified as the hallmark of the debased traditions of sportsmanship in postwar football . |
| 18 | Umm Jazz F M phoned me this morning . |
| 19 | The immediate result of George 's absence was the loss of his advice regarding the wine list , about which Olive knew little , and after three months Marie found it necessary to engage a specialist wine waiter . |
| 20 | ‘ Young Miss Rebecca sold 'em both . |
| 21 | The close connection between politics and revenue patronage made it difficult for superiors to discipline officers who stepped out of line , and even when an officer was actually dismissed he could , and did , fight to secure his reinstatement by pulling political strings . |
| 22 | Bomber Command got it right two weeks later ! |
| 23 | Mr V.P. Singh outwitted them all with his choice of the mufti , a gesture of reconciliation to the nation 's 100million Muslims , who have been on the receiving end of bloody communal violence in north India . |
| 24 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 25 | Car headlights made it difficult to see , in the way that an usherette 's torch can temporarily blind . |
| 26 | Joint stock companies found it possible to grow larger by issuing new shares to increase their capital , and mergers and takeovers saw the average size of firms grow . |
| 27 | David Sieff asked us all to join in drinking Robin 's health , to which Robin replied in two sentences welcoming everyone and saying he hoped we would all come to his 100th birthday party ! |
| 28 | The car heater kept him warmer than he had been since leaving Celia 's flat . |
| 29 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 30 | ISABEL WOLFF BELIEVES THE NOBEL COMMITTEE GOT IT RIGHT THIS TIME … |