Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All thirteen LEAs in the region served by the District were represented on the Council together with the University , the WEA , the YMCA and the Educational Settlements Association and formed the first consultative body of its kind in the country . |
| 2 | After being stranded on 99 for 25 minutes , he finally lost both patience and nerve and became the fourth player in the match to be dismissed in sight of a century as he charged down the pitch . |
| 3 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 4 | The credit , under the Fund 's structural adjustment facility ( SAF ) , was in support of the country 's economic reform programme and constituted the third , and final , instalment of a three-year SAF credit equivalent to SDR20,510,000 approved in 1989 . |
| 5 | ‘ But the following Tuesday , British Coal 's area director visited Point of Ayr and said the second phase would not go ahead during the review period , which effectively means development plans at Point of Ayr are on ice . ’ |
| 6 | It was , it was very nice except that Fred had a piece and left the last couple of slices in the tin on the side and the dog took a shine to it so it was in a tin and then in the dog . |
| 7 | His war service after Cambridge , where he was an exhibitioner at Gonville and Caius College and gained a first in English , pointed the way to his future career . |
| 8 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 9 | Allen walked deftly along the rotten trunk and leapt the last eight feet to the further bank , making a scuffle in the mud where he landed . |
| 10 | His foremost maxim — of never admitting defeat , of sticking to your guns through thick and thin — came to his aid and offered the first shreds of comfort since the unpleasantness of the night before . |
| 11 | I retraced my steps and climbed the second flight of stairs . |
| 12 | Robyn raised the glass to her lips and took a first sip ; she had a feeling that counting to ten was not going to work , but she tried it all the same . |
| 13 | Corbett made his way through the thick clogged sand and entered the first one . |
| 14 | She returned to England on the death of her Father ; she did not attend the funeral ( in a picturesque little English church ) , but did become his literary editor and published the first and most authoritative biography . |
| 15 | I told me mates it was a sure thing and they emptied their pockets and put every last halfpenny on you and that horse of your'n . |
| 16 | My predecessor had read law and obtained a first , but I chose to read social anthropology simply because of a pleasure in the subject . |
| 17 | Allitt was arrested on 21 May and released the next day . |
| 18 | Last Saturday , however , Brentford won at Peterborough and clinched the Third Division championship . |
| 19 | He looked up , removed his reading glasses , then got to his feet and indicated the second sofa . |
| 20 | Rose , giving evidence , said Sweeney had been refused a drink at three pubs and left a fourth . |
| 21 | William was given command of a schooner and spent the next 6 years trading on Lake Erie . |
| 22 | It is thought one pin may have failed on the El Al flight , causing an engine to tear free of its mountings and hit the second engine as it fell . |
| 23 | The latest report by the human rights office of the Archbishopric of Guatemala was issued in late July and covered the first six months of 1992 . |
| 24 | She wrote it as a series of articles and sent the first three to Richard Crossman , then editor of the New Statesman . |
| 25 | The 32-year-old Bein played in Germany 's 1990 World Cup campaign but won the last of his 14 caps in a friendly a year ago . |
| 26 | Glentoran 's Neil Candlish , looking like his old explosive self , hit two in eight minutes and made a third for Damien Kelly with a superb cross , as the Glens swept into a three goal interval lead . |
| 27 | He equalised after 67 minutes and hit a last minute winner . |
| 28 | Trailing overnight leader Sainz by 25 seconds at the start of the day , the British champion steadily whittled away the deficit and opened a 12-second lead on the penultimate stage , before easing up and finishing two seconds ahead of the Spaniard . |
| 29 | In the event Labour received marginally more votes than the Tories , in an election in which the two parties took a larger share of the total votes than ever before , but because of the geography of electoral support in relation to constituency boundaries it was the Tories who gained the majority of seats in Parliament and formed the next government . |
| 30 | It 's impossible to say which city Bashlachev belonged to because he was raised in the northern town of Cherepovets , studied at Sverdlovsk University and spent the last few years of his life wandering between Moscow , Leningrad and Siberia . |