Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon swept back within seconds for Maskell to score , but a minute later he had his spot-kick turned around the post by Steve Sutton . |
| 2 | A great deal hung on the relationship participants were able to establish , and in this any status differential could prove problematic . |
| 3 | The borough brought in a group of consultants to produce topic papers on twelve of the major areas affected by abolition . |
| 4 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 5 | Not like doing it by remote control , having Jem set up a trip-wire . |
| 6 | From the mauve card cut out a rectangle 14 × 10cm and a handle 7cm long . |
| 7 | ‘ For it was then that the Vietminh had in one quick stroke taken over the nationalism of the country , that Ho had achieved the legitimacy of power . ’ |
| 8 | There was no vote taken on the bus . |
| 9 | The proposal would not prevent unofficial action taken on the day without any notice . |
| 10 | The agent would agree with the promoter that for every pound taken on the door , the artist will receive a certain percentage . |
| 11 | The superintendent folded up a chapati . |
| 12 | We measure the region 's troubles in terms of assassinations and war deaths but often forget the toll taken on the living by that everyday acquaintance with fear . |
| 13 | Tolby smoothed back the tufts of hair above his ears and tried to smile back . |
| 14 | But the ambience called up the shades of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin , and of Mimi , and these began to work their fermentation in my imagination . |
| 15 | The 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act brought in a voucher system for the entry of Commonwealth citizens and distinguished between skilled and unskilled workers . |
| 16 | Plugged into your stereo , the lighting effect , which is multi-coloured and does pulsate , is fun in a dark room , especially when there 's a lot of bass , and might liven up a party . |
| 17 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 18 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |
| 19 | Paint , varnish , more varnish and a blow-drier hastened the effect and old brown shoe polish filled in the cracks . |
| 20 | Cornelius observed that freckles on her left cheek mapped out the Tuamotu archipelago of south-west Polynesia . |
| 21 | The housekeeper brought in the coffee in an ornate silver tray which she deposited on one level of the Scandinavian wall-system . |
| 22 | The coroner brought in a verdict of wilful murder . |
| 23 | The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck . |
| 24 | At least , Denise and Jean-Louis Lavergne claim they are the lovers in the world 's most romantic picture taken on a spring morning in 1950 . |
| 25 | Very often this involves no more than manual selection , or simple extraction of the higher frequency words from a distribution taken on the corpus . |
| 26 | On the roof of the next barge is a group huddled round a radio , cheering a football match in Kinshasa , five hundred miles downstream . |
| 27 | For more than two hours , the band who are without question the biggest rock outfit on the globe at present lit up the Dublin sky with a breathtaking assault on the senses . |
| 28 | A DRIVER called out the AA to repair an oil leak after he hit a frozen turkey lying in the road . |
| 29 | Then , still smiling , Isambard forced the boy 's wrists together , enclosed and held them mercilessly in one lean , muscular hand , and with the other picked up the dagger and tossed it after his own sword . |
| 30 | This often means using it ‘ reverse flow ’ — that is with water pumped down the uplift and up through the gravel , thereby keeping the gravel cleaner and less clogged than ‘ standard flow ’ systems where detritus is sucked into the gravel . |