Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 2 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 3 | Mr Justice Mantell threw out an application by Wandsworth Council for an injunction to block the boycott of national curriculum testing . |
| 4 | Edward Gage tracks down an exhibition of art devoted to dog racing and finds a winning combination |
| 5 | Unfortunately , Mark Lemmon was again a big disappointment , but the American Donny O'Dom got over an unlucky early disqualification to win two of his next three races . |
| 6 | Pressure told , however , and Richard Jones banged over an angled penalty goal for a line-out barge by Prosser . |
| 7 | With the New Year came the signing of a contract with Surrey Universityto carry out an extensive research project into management skills and knowledge in several EC member states . |
| 8 | Guitarist Robbin Crosby sulks over an equipment failure . |
| 9 | Guitarist Robbin Crosby sulks over an equipment failure . |
| 10 | Allegations in a broadcast by the US television company ABC News provoked renewed controversy on the fourth anniversary of the incident on July 3 , 1988 , when the US warship Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian airliner [ see pp. 36169-70 ] . |
| 11 | But in time term " , these limestones are very much of the same age as those in Europe and , as I have said elsewhere , " the Niagara Falls are nothing more than the Niagara River falling over an escarpment of Wenlock Limestone " . |
| 12 | Witnesses said the powerful Nova GSi raced up an alleyway between Corporation Road and Kingston Street , but the driver lost control as he attempted to turn left and ploughed into a brick wall . |
| 13 | Alan Kane turned down an opportunity to explain the Save Ulster From Sodomy campaign on television because the studio discussion would take place on a Sunday . |
| 14 | CHRISTOPHER PHELPS kicked off an outstanding night 's music with an accurate , delicately played Mozart Symphony . |
| 15 | HEART-THROB Jason Donovan turned down an invitation to kiss Paula Yates on TV yesterday . |
| 16 | REMEMBER Baftagate , when Lynda La Plante picked up an award for Prime Suspect although the majority of the jury allegedly voted for Alan Bleasdale 's GBH ? |
| 17 | Mrs Sutcliffe , wearing dark tinted glasses , listened carefully in the packed public benches as Mr Lightman read out an affidavit by Oliver Duke , once the boyfriend of Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones , in which he admitted taking part in a scheme to get the money secretly from the newspaper to Mrs Sutcliffe . |
| 18 | There is talk , too , of Kenny McKinstry putting in an appearance to give his Subaru a pre-Donegal work-out following its trip to Barbados . |
| 19 | Four minutes later , Dunk and Phil Somers carved out an opening for Crimmen who finished the move off with alacrity to make it 3–1 . |
| 20 | On January 21st President Bush held out an olive branch : some of the Arab countries supporting Iraq , he said , still had an important role to play in the future Middle East . |
| 21 | If there is a life hereafter , then surely we will find Fred Daly strolling down an Elysian Fairway , whistling in his own inimitable style , his gallery enthralled by the perceptible body sway on the backswing before launching a colossal drive from the tee , enchanted by the purity of his iron play and driven to distraction by precisely 32 lifts of the putter blade from the back to the top of the ball before he sends it with authority into the cup . |
| 22 | Ernest Fryer put up an experimental stretch of netting to the height of a bank proposed as a means of protecting the road . |
| 23 | Earlier , the Swifts ' keeper Hutchinson brought off an excellent save from Black after being caught out of position . |
| 24 | The siege lasted almost a year , ; Philip VI put in an appearance with a relieving army at the beginning of August 1347 but he came to the conclusion that the English could not be dislodged and went away again . |
| 25 | For those crossing the Channel , Mirabel Osler brings out an intriguing title : The Secret Gardens of France ( Pavilion , March , £16.99 , 1 85145 666 X ) . |
| 26 | Don-E 's Island release ‘ Peace In The World ’ was disqualified from the charts after the hi-tech security system used by chart compilers Gallup picked up an unusually high concentration of sales in the south London area . |
| 27 | Last week GGT picked up an extra £5m of business from Cadbury and the £4m Philips CD Interactive account . |
| 28 | Norman Carlin opened up an 11–2 lead against club lead Alan Lambert and went on to win well by 21–12 while Terry Clarke led all the way to beat John Allison comfortably 21–12 . |
| 29 | A further boost to Ted 's detective work came when the broadcaster Raymond Baxter put out an appeal for instruments during his commentary at the Farnborough Air Show in September 1972 . |
| 30 | In 1775 the Physiocrat Dupont de Nemours drew up an elaborate scheme for a hierarchy of local and provincial representative assemblies with a national one as its culminating point . |