Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in ITV 's winter package of programmes announced yesterday include Jilly Cooper 's new lust-in-the-saddle mini-series Riders and a controversial documentary series The Good Sex Guide hosted by Making Out star Margi Clarke . |
| 2 | He finds a neat but dubious way of skirting Paul Simon 's problem with the cultural boycott : South African musicians laid down backing tracks in Johannesburg in his absence and then he overdubbed vocals in the US . |
| 3 | Rajmapata found the best surface up the far rail in the Carrie Red Fillies Nursery , Flight Lieutenant got up to beat Roberty Lea in the Harcros Timber & Building Supplies Stayers Final , and Tickerty 's Gift collected the Cowies PLC Limited Stakes . |
| 4 | Soon lobbing along behind the leaders , Llewellyn was always finding plenty of room for Party Politics and by the second Canal Turn , when Romany King moved up to join Hotplate , the race had begun to take it 's final shape . |
| 5 | Despite unsuitable premises , lack of funding and a dearth of promised support from the council , many groups tried hard to accommodate children 's needs . |
| 6 | Foreign artists tried hopelessly to find work , dig trenches , look after the four cows in the Bois de Boulogne , anything to earn a few francs . |
| 7 | A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale-tobacco smelling office . |
| 8 | TENBY VERDICT : Epsom Derby flop Tenby was not doped , the Jockey Club announced today following results of a test . |
| 9 | In the first 20 minutes Celtic had five scoring efforts , one of them scrambled home by Creaney but rightly given offside , while St Johnstone failed even to reach Celtic 's penalty area . |
| 10 | Both parties agreed not to make peace without the other 's consent . |
| 11 | The writer well remembers the surge of power as the cars moved forward leaving motor vehicles well behind ; similar to that of an American PCC car , which the equipment was designed to emulate . |
| 12 | Residents cheered when a bulldozer moved in to demolish wartime flats and maisonettes condemned by tenants as a disgrace . |
| 13 | Yet the Commons debate went far beyond the usual slanging match — and although Minister Robert Key tried hard to describe Government policy in the best possible light , serious concern and strong criticism was expressed that alone in the National Heritage budget , the English Tourist Board 's ( ETB ) funding is to be fiercely reduced . |
| 14 | Thirteen districts used well established instruments , 33 used locally developed instruments , and 66 used a combination . |
| 15 | SPLASH came down to view Europe 's best after the European Championships at Warrington . |
| 16 | The island community Nichols studied traditionally spoke Gullah , a creole variety developed from the African/English pidgin of early slave plantations . |
| 17 | The irritating clarity which her dissolving mind afforded long gone events brought back memories of an archaeological expedition to classify similar megaliths on Sensuron . |
| 18 | The former study compared carefully matched samples of British , French , and German factories , and having held as constant as possible factors such as size of enterprise , technology , and the firm 's environment , discovered substantial differences in the way work was organised in the three countries , concluding that these could best be accounted for by features of each nation 's culture , and in particular its educational and occupational structures . |
| 19 | In 1983 , when the AIDS danger to the American blood supply was first identified , the US Food and Drug Administration acted decisively to approve heat treatment to purify blood products . |
| 20 | Molly turned away to pour tea . |
| 21 | The Cheetahs lost 47 to 43 at Bellevue over the weekend , but despite that defeat hundreds of supporters turned up to see world cup er world champion Hans Nielsen in training last night relieved and smiling that their hero was staying in Oxford . |
| 22 | NEARLY 10,000 fans turned out to see St Helens ' new Kiwi signing Jarrod McCracken live up to his pre-match billing as the ‘ new Mal Meninga ’ . |
| 23 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor in Cloverbay had intended to lay down a rule that no order could be made under section 236 if the purpose for which the office-holder claimed reasonably to require information sought included obtaining information the receipt of which would go beyond a reconstitution of knowledge which the company once had and was entitled in law to possess . |
| 24 | If you want to — ’ Sue turned back to give Sylvia some unnecessary help with her food . |
| 25 | Which in practice turned out to mean Carol and Bill , these friends of Kelly 's . |
| 26 | Quite a relief , actually , Matthew thought , feeling older than Methuselah as Georgina rushed off to see Rory King-Thing . |
| 27 | In June , French troops arrived at Leith , and the French and Scots settled down to besiege Haddington . |
| 28 | In a housing project car park , we watched as a white Cadillac stretch limousine pulled up to buy cocaine from the barrio kids , while Los Angeles 's contribution to the economy of the underclass . |
| 29 | Martin Spencer worked tirelessly to develop EUP until his unexpected and untimely death in 1990 . |
| 30 | A letter of Wealdhere , bishop of London , to Archbishop Beorhtwald in 704–5 reveals a state of estrangement between Ine and the eastern Saxon rulers , Sigeheard and Swaefred ; in return for the expulsion of the exiles , Ine undertook not to inflict vengeance on the eastern Saxons and a forthcoming council at Brentford , to be attended by the kings and their leading men both ecclesiastical and lay , was expected to resolve the crisis . |