Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 2 | Three years ago ICI successfully prevented a wholesaler in East Anglia from importing and selling a substandard version of the company 's lucrative Beta-blocker , Propranolol . |
| 3 | The provision of floating timber fenders in the Entrance Lock effectively reduced the width to 31.6 metres but gave added protection to ships using the facility . |
| 4 | Soviet relations with Tehran , apart from the general benevolence with which Moscow instinctively viewed the revolution , were more complex . |
| 5 | Guildford duly collected the crown with a 12–6 win on the Isle of Wight , but Chelmsford coach Brad Doshan believes the final placings could actually work out in his team 's favour . |
| 6 | ‘ The girls can do the cleaning , ’ she told Mrs Dyson , and Anne and Sarah rarely left the shop before eight o'clock at night . |
| 7 | And so it was , in 1950 , that Edouard effectively became the baron de Chavigny . |
| 8 | Sydney Newman duly filled the hole by granting Doctor Who an extra episode to replace the one lost . |
| 9 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 10 | Marc suddenly slammed the door back against the wall with the flat of one hand and was pushing inside after her . |
| 11 | FORMER THROBBING Gristle members Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti apparently had a hand in remixing ‘ SOS ’ from Erasure 's ‘ Abbaesque ’ project . |
| 12 | Horsley personally insisted the company practise Equal Opportunities , and have fully unionized factories where managers and employees addressed each other on Christian-name terms . |
| 13 | Newman only caught a glimpse of the man in a dark leather jacket but he looked remarkably like Steve , the thug who had accompanied Papa Grimwood on their visit to Greenway Gardens , Wandsworth . |
| 14 | Lisa suddenly had the sensation of being caught up in some kind of nightmare . |
| 15 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 16 | Newry only had a couple of first half chances , with big Barry Hunter cancelling out the first when he intercepted a Gary Hughes shot . |
| 17 | Cardiff gingerly touched the basement door handle with his gloved hands , still watching the others . |
| 18 | The Court of Victoria rightly rejected the contention that a careless act can never give rise to a cause of action in negligence unless there is in existence at the time of the act a legal person affected by it who can sue . |
| 19 | Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years . |
| 20 | Mrs Adams bitterly attacked the sentence and the legal system . |
| 21 | In late November a stay of execution seemed possible when some rodeo interests in North Queensland successfully lobbied the Labor caucus , arguing that the ban would mean destitution for this icon of Australian bush spirit , traditionally sponsored by tobacco . |
| 22 | Wishart nodded and Corbett instinctively felt the strain lessen . |
| 23 | Cunningham slowly removed the cigar from his mouth and propped it carefully in an ashtray . |
| 24 | The availability of cheap quinine , which opened up many tropical areas to European penetration , came about when Clements Markham successfully transplanted the cinchona plant from South America to India via Kew in 1859–62 . |
| 25 | Hyacinth nervously straddled the pot again and , supported by her mother , was lowering herself over the steaming brew when the door crashed open . |
| 26 | Left to fend for herself , Meredith slowly crossed the square and then turned . |
| 27 | It is not possible to demonstrate adequately a specific hypothesis but one fact is certain : Wilfrid so earned the enmity of Ecgfrith that despite an appeal to Rome which endorsed the justice of his case , he remained in exile and was still an outcast from his church when Ecgfrith fell in battle against the Picts on 20 May 685 . |
| 28 | Run-DMC sensibly provided a side order of heavy metal with their rantings and secured crossover success , while it 's noticeable that LL Cool J has resorted to introducing unabashed Radio 2-style ballads into his repertoire . |
| 29 | Jean so enjoyed the challenge of her new job that she asked her husband , Peter , then a watch salesman , to help her move the heavy rolls of fabric , put up shelves and pictures and generally bring some order to the store . |
| 30 | He said but David only saw the surface . |