Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bernice tried to read the next line , Ell moved forward and stamped on the creature . |
| 2 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 3 | Flockmasters had to forget the last decade when seat-of-the-pants management brought reasonable returns from a supported market . |
| 4 | On marriage the Dobbies agreed to dedicate a tenth of their income to ‘ the Lord 's work ’ . |
| 5 | The Council agreed to postpone the next full visit from the summer of 1979 until later in the year , and to release a press statement that had been agreed by the visiting party with the Polytechnic and the Teesside Education Authority . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr Foggerty agreed to produce the fourth . |
| 7 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 8 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 9 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 10 | Hawaii has two huge roadways , and planners wanted to build a third . |
| 11 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 12 | Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma . |
| 13 | Celebrations planned to commemorate the 30th anniversary of independence , on July 5 , were cancelled . |
| 14 | The majority of those present at the 26th June Q.T. Day voted to hold the next A.G.M. on a Saturday afternoon . |
| 15 | Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 . |
| 16 | Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows . |
| 17 | Although with treatment they made gains in growth at least comparable with other patients , 59% ( 10 of 17 ) followed up to maturity failed to reach the third centile for adult height . |
| 18 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 19 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 20 | And Shirley happened to come the next day and I about it . |
| 21 | Cockfield Fell managed to escape the 18th Century Enclosure Acts and remains a valuable area of common land . |
| 22 | This year politics and economics conspired to make the first almost impossible . |
| 23 | By the time the Board decided to build a second power station at Hinkley Point in the 1960s , an accepting local population had got accustomed to an industrial development in the middle of the countryside . |
| 24 | A CONSIDERABLE future opened up for Gary Mason here last night when he knocked out Tyrell Biggs as the bell rang to end the seventh round . |
| 25 | As they prepared to leave and resume their homeward journey , Jack decided to take a last look around the parcels office . |
| 26 | Holly coming back to the bench after an hour 's walk that had taken him to the ski jump where the young people gathered to watch the first of the winter 's athletes propel themselves into the dizzy air flows . |
| 27 | Then Gabriel went to visit the second brother , who was now running a great farm , with dairies , and butcheries where they sold meat , and tanneries where they sold boots and saddles and all kinds of things made out of leather . |
| 28 | But he withstood some solid blows and finally saw off Biggs with a right to the temple as the bell sounded to end the seventh round . |
| 29 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 30 | Nutty went to watch the next Wednesday , to see if she could pick up a tip or two , and at least find out what they had to beat . |