Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1886 La Chapelle covered 60 hectares of land , and it was lit by electric light from 1877 . |
| 2 | Jim Davidson sent six bottles of champagne with a card saying , ‘ What a way to get into the papers , ’ and one evening I received the largest basket of poinsettias I 've ever seen , totally stunning , with a card saying , ‘ Thinking of you — lots of love , Elton . ’ |
| 3 | GARRY HARVEY played 24 holes in one under par to take a surprise halfway lead over fellow Scot Bill Longmuir in the Rome Masters at Castelgandolfo yesterday . |
| 4 | Jim Kelly threw three touchdown passes and Thurman Thomas rushed for 155 yards as the Buffalo Bills won their AFC showdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers 28–20 . |
| 5 | Colin Ward discovers 100 people reducing their dependency on cash |
| 6 | FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward discovers 100 people reducing their dependencies on cash |
| 7 | However , those less interested in the in-fighting in the House of Windsor than the environment will have noticed that Sarah Ferguson did one thing RIGHT . |
| 8 | 0600 spotted Cat 's Ear opens 0700 African Marigold opens 0800 Mouse Ear Hawkweed opens 0900 Prickly Sowthistle closes 1000 Common Nipple Wort closes 1100 Star of Bethlehem opens 1200 Passion Flower opens 1300 Childing Pink closes 1400 Scarlet Pimpernel closes 1500 Hawkbit closes 1600 Small Bindweed closes 1700 White Water Lily closes 1800 Evening Primrose opens |
| 9 | Pop singer Alison Moyet performed two hits and Ben Elton did a quick comic turn , describing Dr David Owen 's endorsement of the Tories as a ‘ poisoned chalice ’ and being rude about John Major . |
| 10 | MARCO VAN BASTEN scored four times as unbeaten AC Milan routed Napoli 5-1 to stay two points clear at the top of Italy 's Serie A. |
| 11 | AC MILAN striker Marco van Basten scored four goals as the European Cup favourites trounced Sweden 's IFK Gothenburg in their opening semi-final Group B match . |
| 12 | Dean Bunn died five days earlier . |
| 13 | Eb and Florrie Judge had one son , Thomas , and when Tom was sixteen he discovered that Saul had some hold over his father . |
| 14 | Moët et Chandon owns 1840 acres of vineyards in the finest growths of the Cô des Blancs , the Montagne de Rheims and Vallée de la Marne . |
| 15 | Long Buckby had 131 men and boys working at the shoemaking craft in 1841 and no females ; ten years later numbers had risen to 273 males and 50 women and girls . |
| 16 | WORRIED mum Pamela Pilbro spent three weeks searching for her 20-year-old son Philip — unaware that his decomposing body was hanging from rafters in the attic . |
| 17 | Tuff Gong employs 65 people and began in earnest at Bob 's Addis Ab shop on Orange Street in 1977 , when he first pressed records on the manual machines that now stand in the yard . |
| 18 | Ron Archer and Phil McNeilly scored tries and Colin Woodcock kicked two penalties and a conversion . |
| 19 | The tranquil village of Low Catton lies six miles east of York on the east bank of the river Derwent . |
| 20 | Richard Foley died 6 July 1657 , and was buried in front of the chancel steps at St Mary 's , Stourbridge . |
| 21 | STORMS in north-east Romania killed three people and forced hundreds from their homes over the past three days , television reported last night . |
| 22 | MEMOREX TELEX OFFERS 5100 TAPE LIBRARY FOR THE IBM AS/400 |
| 23 | Austria 's Beate Reinstadler took three hours 15 minutes to beat the qualifier Tracy Moreton , of Australia , 5-7 , 7-5 , 7-5 . |
| 24 | The Nez Perce lost four warriors — Going Across ( Wayakot ) , Grizzly Bear Blanket ( Yoomtis Kunnin ) , Red Thunder ( Heinmot Ilppilp ) and Whittling ( Lelooskin ) — while fifteen of Howard 's troops were killed . |
| 25 | The St Margaret 's Chapel Guild has commissioned cabinetmaker Piers Kettlewell to make ten bench seats for the chapel . |
| 26 | PC Edward Walls spent 20 minutes trying to resuscitate a 71-year-old heart attack victim at a Remembrance Day parade in Blackhall , Consett . |
| 27 | HOLDING a single red rose and brushing tears from her pale cheeks , little Rebecca Leyland led 1,000 mourners behind her mother 's coffin yesterday . |
| 28 | When it came to football Bert had one thing on his mind , pigeons . |
| 29 | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins died 22 November 1835 in Twickenham . |
| 30 | Judge Hill gave two year conditional discharges to Philip twenty one from Southampton and Keith nineteen of nearby Hythe for unlawful intercourse . |