Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rodber was taken off with spinal concussion midway through the second half , and within minutes Richards was shepherding a maul forty metres downfield . |
| 2 | Room must be left on the upwind side in case there is a cable break or premature release , and on the down wind side in case the wing touches and causes a swing that way . |
| 3 | Terry has designed a PVC-covered three foot foam mat with an eight inch deep cut-out for fish to be laid in while the fishing hook is removed . |
| 4 | But in truth the field was disappointing : only one runner ( At Talaq ) had won a Group One event and only four of the others had won any Pattern race . |
| 5 | If we 'd fought that election on the trade union agenda , we would have won a lot more votes than the campaign issues chosen by the professionals . |
| 6 | They called instead for the assumption of power by the NLD , which had won a landslide electoral victory in May 1990 but not been allowed to take office [ see pp. 37457-58 ] . |
| 7 | For the first time in 14 years , the country 's top sprinter , currently sunning himself in Australia , has decided to skip the event at which he has won a record nine men 's titles . |
| 8 | Now the Conservatives have won a record fourth term , while M Mitterrand 's Socialists have suffered their worst poll defeat since the war , as have Signor Andreotti 's Christian Democrats . |
| 9 | The working was mandatory viewing , for it often provided a Princess Royal Pacific . |
| 10 | The massive El Al Boeing 747 cargo jet gouged a canyon six apartments wide and five floors deep in one block . |
| 11 | Assuming that a target company is confined to an authority of 10 per cent it will be seen that the directors of the target and their concert parties will need to hold at least 27 per cent before the buy-in to hold 30 per cent afterwards and thereby trigger a Rule 9 obligation . |
| 12 | Designing , implementing and understanding a brand new architecture , such as the blackboard system , is complicated enough without trying to solve the problems of speech processing at the same time . |
| 13 | The inductor L2 should not ‘ sing ’ , if it does you may need a fraction more tightness on the studding nuts holding it in place , but do this with extreme care . |
| 14 | To predict the universe , you 'd need a computer many times bigger than the universe . ’ |
| 15 | Being by Sharpen Up , a proven ‘ sire of sires ’ , Sure Sharp would only need a bit more Pattern success to earn himself a place at stud . |
| 16 | Okay okay just so I ca n't I need a couple more calls to finish off the programme and take a couple more records er O nine O four six four one six four one would you ring me . |
| 17 | Judith Hurwitz , now head of the Hurwitz Consulting Group , says the whole tone of SCO Forum was different this year and obviously indicates they are jockeying to go public — even though they 'll need a couple more quarters at least to get the kind of track record they need to do it . |
| 18 | I do need a job old boy . |
| 19 | I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't . |
| 20 | So they 've kept that tradition so we go there for the colours , and they provide a palette each year , er that 's the ninety one ninety two . |
| 21 | The affair had come to light in late January when a United Kingdom businessman , Paul Pearson , representing a South African-registered company , Dove Trading International , was stopped and searched at Moscow 's Sheremetyevo Airport on his way out of the country . |
| 22 | Becoming a steam powered reality in June 1980 . |
| 23 | But then Charles goes bonkers with the Bentley , Prince Michael bags a brand new Aston Martin , Fergie moves into her Pizza Hut palace and the whole game is given away . |
| 24 | I tried to write a speech last year and I made a right mess of it , so this year I 'm gon na speak from the heart , because I might get a boo like the leader of the council here , I install water meters . |
| 25 | Held September 17/20 , the races drew a record 160,000 spectators and offered a purse totalling $ 535,000 . |
| 26 | The poster is a joint initiative between Wirral Drug Prevention Team and the Mersey Regional Health Authority and will include a freephone regional health number for information and advice on drugs and HIV issues . |
| 27 | Some Chinese leaders maintained that the project , which would include a 185-metre high dam , a 600-km long reservoir and the world 's largest hydroelectric power station , was essential for the development of the Yangtze as a " prosperous economic corridor " . |
| 28 | he was greatly concerned , too , with getting the correct scale of things , emphasising that the eye can only see at one glance an object which in size is one-third of the distance between the object and that eye ; in other words if you are painting a man six feet high you should be 18 feet away from him . |
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| 30 | Eire 's central defenders are in the veteran class and Kernaghan should win a call-up next season |