Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His batting oozes responsibility and time and time again he has ushered Essex through scary run chases or guided England with equal zeal in both rearguards and assaults . |
| 2 | His batting oozes responsibility and time and time again he has ushered Essex through scary run chases or guided England with equal zeal in both rearguards and assaults . |
| 3 | Inevitably Shabba turned up at Music Works , the studio that ruled Jamaica in 1988 –'89,; and there producer Gussie Clarke cut Shabba on some of the best records of the era : the lighthearted ‘ Twice My Age ’ with Krystal , and ‘ Pirate 's Anthem ’ , reuniting him with Cocoa Tea and Home T. |
| 4 | Mr Izetbegovic , after months of negotiating , accepted a controversial map that divided Bosnia into ten semi-autonomous provinces . |
| 5 | It was this more than anything that impelled Havel into active opposition , and there 's little doubt that it 's his reputation as a truth-teller , a man whose word is to be trusted , that most commends him to a nation recovering from constitutional mendacity . |
| 6 | Ferguson is unlikely to disturb the team that thrashed Oldham by three goals . |
| 7 | Lawrence Wilson ( 27 ) and Martin Isaac ( 24 ) chipped in with useful runs , but it was a last wicket stand of 59 between Rob Houghton ( 39 ) and Stuart Wade ( 20 not out ) that lifted Sefton to 176 all out . |
| 8 | It was he , the 6th Duke , that turned Chatsworth into one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country today . |
| 9 | That must be of great concern to the yards which were not successful in the tendering process , whose problems will become similar to those that confronted Yarrow until this afternoon . |
| 10 | VINNIE JONES put down his pint and revealed the unique preparations that guided Wimbledon to another incredible triumph against the odds — a week of partying , brawling and booze . |
| 11 | Downton and Emburey kept him company for a while , and when number eleven Dilley joined him he had 69 ; when Dilley was out for 2 next morning Willey had completed his century , a splendid 102 not out that took England to 271 , Croft finishing with 6 for 74 . |
| 12 | They took part in the advance into Syria , they were part of the Brigade that took Damascus on 1 October 1918 , and were there 31 October , when the Armistice with Turkey was signed . |
| 13 | So it was n't defence and the instruments of death that brought Summerchild to that little yard in Spring Gardens . |
| 14 | Charity was against it , an attitude that astonished Clarissa at first , until it became plain that the strength of Charity 's reluctance was a measure of how much the pros and cons of the projected week-end in Paris meant for her . |
| 15 | Vase on Saturday , a result that put Burscough in confident mood . |
| 16 | His crisp jabbing had Gary Newton of Teams instantly on the defensive , and Exley followed up with tremendous hooks that had Newton down three times in the first round before the referee stepped in . |
| 17 | The thermonuclear ( hydrogen bomb ) warhead on each cruise missile is 10 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 . |
| 18 | Richards was promoted rear-admiral in 1870 , and became CB in 1871 . |
| 19 | ( 1862 ) , received honorary degrees from all four Scottish universities , and became FRSE in 1863 and FRS in 1879 . |
| 20 | He was knighted in 1889 and appointed KCB in 1897 . |
| 21 | The earliest record of Thomas is of his admission as a commoner at Brasenose College , Oxford , on 1 March 1653 ; he matriculated on 2 April 1653 , and was admitted to the degree of BA on 13 October 1656 , created MA on 6 November 1661 , and admitted BD on 11 December 1669 . |
| 22 | Had she not heard Sarah 's cry of outrage the moment before she opened the carriage door and caught John in that position ? |
| 23 | Thompson won 42 caps for England and captained Liverpool through some of their finest seasons . |
| 24 | Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk , who was born in Eureka , California and spent his first six years on a Red Indian reservation , scored centuries in the Varsity matches of 1953 and 1954 , and captained Cambridge in 1955 . |
| 25 | I learnt of one Jewish man who married a non-Jewish woman and approached Lubavitch for spiritual help . |
| 26 | The mother met the father of C. in 1988 and bore C. in 1989 . |
| 27 | The doctor came over and drew Harry to one side . |
| 28 | Blue-bellied , porphyry-crowned musk and little lorikeets also flocked around the town and provided Gould with easy targets . |
| 29 | The interaction between c-Myc and Bcl-2 differs from the usual form of oncoprotein cooperation as observed between c-Myc and activated Ras in that , although c-Myc/Bcl-2 fibroblasts proliferate continuously in the absence of mitogens , they neither appear to be morphologically transformed nor to form foci in monolayer culture ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 30 | Showbiz pals at her London party reckoned the LP sounded great , and saluted Julie with this ornate cake … fit for the King . |