Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's drama came a year and a day after the North Yorkshire shootings in which Special Constable Glenn Goodman was killed and PC Sandy Kelly badly wounded by a hail of bullets fired by on-the-run IRA terrorist Paul Magee . |
| 2 | In an age of central heating and renovation Greystones presumably featured as a rare unspoiled habitat . |
| 3 | Cardiff slowly pushed at the door , widening the thin jet-black wedge . |
| 4 | Newton only learnt of the charge on Monday , two days before the county appeared in front of the TCCB . |
| 5 | Naturally , the Hagen make the ‘ Muss es sein ? ’ phrase , to the questioning figure which Beethoven thereby put into the musical vernacular , severe and demanding ; so it is , but the answer has a positive affirmation which does not exclude merriment . |
| 6 | Tommy Pickernell duly won on the horse with ease . |
| 7 | However , with their playmaker Turner injured , and his replacement Yendle not really hitting it off with scrum-half Llewellyn , Newport rarely threatened behind the scrum . |
| 8 | Which left Rex somewhat stuck for a reply . |
| 9 | Accommodationist states like Jordan and Kuwait only dealt with the Soviet Union because of favours withheld by the United States . |
| 10 | Rex suddenly sobered to the rifle butt which struck him between the shoulder blades . |
| 11 | He said that Ken constantly referred to the ‘ guilt ’ that he felt . |
| 12 | And Leicester were their own worst enemies then because Hill and er Whitlow just got in a mess . |
| 13 | MISS SELFRIDGE manageress Jenny Beckett largely agreed with the River Island theories . |
| 14 | Cannon , after a miss , hit and lay for a single at the fourth and then they stole two at the fifth where Muirhead just failed by a fraction with a raised take out . |
| 15 | Thus , how Gorbachev finally called for a free market , free elections and freedom from the Soviet Republics that want to leave the Union . |
| 16 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 17 | Hari quickly moved to the foot of the stairs , her head bent to hide the blush that warmed her cheeks . |
| 18 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 19 | The Economist has called for a bill of rights as a bulwark against what Lord Hailsham once described as an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ . |
| 20 | The relationship between States directly injured by a violation of international law and other States has been explored further by the International Law Commission in its work on State Responsibility . |
| 21 | Willis and Tilda usually stopped on the way at a little shop in the Vauxhall Bridge Road , which seemed glad of any kind of custom , to buy a quarter of aniseed marbles . |
| 22 | Based on a series of works by Picasso collectively known as the Antipolis cycle , made in 1946 to 1947 , the images have been engraved on to metal plates by Claude Rodrigues and printed uninked ( a technique known as gaufrage ) . |
| 23 | By this conditional statement , Edward clearly referred to the non-performance of the territorial clauses of the 1259 treaty . |
| 24 | Manville nearly choked on the small cheroot he was in the process of lighting up . |
| 25 | Lucy nearly choked on the stuff , but kept it down . |
| 26 | As Gwenellen now worked in the Out Patients Department , which closed at 6 P.M. from Mondays to Fridays and at 12.30 on Saturdays , she was enjoying one of the most envied and regular off-duty shifts in the hospital . |
| 27 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 28 | Ellen now worked at an adventure playground — the Christabel Focus — for underprivileged girls in an ethnically mixed section of the city . |
| 29 | Mick Ronson : ‘ After the tour , we recorded the album , ‘ Pin-Ups ’ , an album which was just a collection of songs that David really liked from the 60's period , and shortly afterwards , we went to Italy for a holiday . |
| 30 | He was released by Partick now engaged in a staff reduction and cost cutting exercise . |