Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferguson got closest last season , his team finally running out of steam at , of all places , Liverpool . |
| 2 | Get and you lot never told me that Renault went out last night ! |
| 3 | ‘ I wish we could stay , Aunt , ’ Naylor replied charmingly , and took her mind away from him by asking , ‘ Did Travis come home last night ? ’ |
| 4 | Coun Scott spoke out last week to allay fears that the project would never match the fundraisers ' hopes because none of the cash had been spent . |
| 5 | Be nice to him — and to Swayne — and find out , if you can , what time Clarence came in last night . ’ |
| 6 | JOHN PARROTT headed home last night to enjoy a snooker-free Christmas while James Wattana began his preparations for a Coalite World Matchplay semi-final debut . |
| 7 | Gordon Durie stole down the right and seeing the defences lack of organisation , he blasted in a low pass which McCoist drove home first time . |
| 8 | Ruth awakened early next morning . |
| 9 | ‘ Size Of A Cow ’ will be out on the Polydor label early next month , backed with live tracks recorded in Los Angeles last year . |
| 10 | The lanky Ray frittered away last night in a video-game marathon with Roy Lawrence . |
| 11 | Fifteen states have passed laws enabling private operators to run roads and railways : the state of Washington did so last month . |
| 12 | High-flying Norwich had a £1 million approach for Armstrong turned down last year . |
| 13 | Shreeves , who had two years in charge during the mid-Eighties , had been a surprise reappointment as team manager after Venables moved upstairs last summer . |
| 14 | Germany was next , going up by 43 per cent and her ally Austria-Hungary came in third place with an increase of 35 per cent . |
| 15 | Ruth did not sleep much , and when Ernest came downstairs next morning she was already up and doing . |
| 16 | Super Mario Bros directed by husband and wife team Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel opens nationwide next month and looks like being a big attraction with young audiences . |
| 17 | I can only hope that his kind of electioneering cynicism will fail abysmally and by the time National Music Day comes round next year , Tim Renton will have left office too . |
| 18 | And when Rosa heard Caterina getting up next door , and coming towards the kitchen , she gave Sabina another hard pinch on the thin part of her arm , just to make sure she knew there was n't to be another word . |
| 19 | BHC decided late last year to build five full-scale AP1-88s , each carrying 101 passengers , at its Cowes factory even though , so far , it has signed no further orders . |
| 20 | " Has Inspector Blakelock worked out last month 's average turn-round figures yet ? " |
| 21 | ‘ Did Mr Troy come in last night ? ’ |
| 22 | Flavia got up next morning when the alarm clock rang : Andrée in the evening ; meanwhile an honest day 's work ( for a change ) . |
| 23 | Even more at odds with the ‘ hands off ’ policies of Sir Keith Joseph is the list of policy objectives that Jenkin drew up last autumn as a guide to help civil servants . |
| 24 | Unlike other UK retailers in the Canadian market — Boots came out last year and Marks & Spencer has been struggling to break even — WH Smith has shown profits growth . |
| 25 | He may have another outing on the Flat before bidding to add to his National Hunt tally here next month . |
| 26 | Her husband Peter seen here last Christmas , is now dying of throat cancer . |
| 27 | ‘ After our night together , when Peter turned up next day , you were so savage , as if you really did believe all those terrible things you were saying about me — I do n't understand why you changed so suddenly — ’ |
| 28 | Mr Utterson called again next day , and again the day after that . |
| 29 | Originally four Carmel Convent sisters were due to make the journey but , sadly , Sister Inge died late last year after suffering an inoperable brain tumour . |
| 30 | As a result of deflation , productivity in Britain went down last year , whereas in Germany it went up . |