Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm bookies yesterday slashed odds on Prince William becoming the next king because of an exclusive Sun story , I do n't think . |
| 2 | Goalkeeper Bolder off his line , punched away only to Andy Melville on the edge of the penalty area ; Melville ran forward after picking up the loose ball , hammered it forward , Martin Foyle getting the last touch of the ball into the corner of the net , and United now seemingly pushing forward towards three points . |
| 3 | Blyth Wright starting the first pitch of The Bat — the traverse to the Hoodie Groove . |
| 4 | Another defeat , this time by Wigan , was the 13th of the season at Feethams , with Bury scoring a second half winner to finish the away programme on a sad note the 16th on tour . |
| 5 | Joe Ropati scored a final try for Warrington , with Turner adding a sixth goal . |
| 6 | An early mistake by Liam Dunne which led to Jim McInally chipping the 14th minute opener past Rhodes set the pattern for the game . |
| 7 | In division four , St. Phillips ( Tony Johnson ) beat New Adlam 2-1 with Mark Ellis scoring an 86th minute winner . |
| 8 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 9 | He says he had no idea that Surrey had received two warnings in 1990 and 1991 until the summons arrived from the TCCB citing a third instance , against Leicestershire last month , and referring to the two previous offences . |
| 10 | The game has been adjourned after six hours ' play with Short sealing the 61st move in an envelope . |
| 11 | Malone took immediate control on a mud bath pitch , Richard Cullen kicking a fourth minute penalty . |
| 12 | This was on the basis of continued strong earnings growth throughout the recession , with Wolters Kluwer achieving a first half jump of 39% in after-tax earnings and forecasting a 20% rise for the whole of 1992 , and Elsevier predicting a rise of 16% for the full year . |
| 13 | The following day King Birendra addressed a rally in Kathmandu marking the 29th anniversary of the abolition of multiparty government and its replacement by a non-party system . |
| 14 | But Wigan had the final say when Betts strolled through three tackles from 20 yards out to score , with Kiwi Frano Botica adding a third goal . |
| 15 | After arriving only 20 minutes before kick-off due to heavy traffic , Warrington were caught cold and trailed 2-0 after just eight minutes , with Great Harwood adding a third goal before the interval . |
| 16 | There I found Phil and Mike discussing the next move . |
| 17 | This is Anne Loye receiving the First Prize in a Fitness competition held at a Butlin 's Holiday Camp . |
| 18 | Set in the altar is an attractive late Gothic panel from southern Bohemia depicting The Last Judgement . |
| 19 | Two senior editors of Novi Sad television news were suspended on April 8 , 1990 , for giving greater prominence in a news bulletin to coverage of an election rally in Croatia by the right-wing nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ — the eventual winners in the election — see p. 37381 ) than to a rally in Belgrade attended by Milosevic commemorating the 175th anniversary of the second Serbian uprising against the Turks . |
| 20 | Fascism was a product of the deep-rooted social and economic crisis which developed in Europe following the First World War ; a period which saw high unemployment , inflation and social instability . |
| 21 | Mr Vaclav Havel , the Czechoslovak opposition leader , and the still ruling Communist Party were immersed in crisis talks on the shape of a new coalition government as the prospect of Mr Havel becoming the next president appeared to strengthen . |
| 22 | MR VACLAV Havel , the Czechoslovak opposition leader , and the still ruling Communist Party were immersed in crisis talks on the shape of a new coalition government late last night as the prospect of Mr Havel becoming the next president appeared to strengthen . |
| 23 | At the Commons at 27 , the first Welsh woman MP joined her father , her brother Gwilym , newly elected for Pembroke , and a relative , Major Goronwy Owen , MP for Caernarfonshire , in a unique family group , LG becoming the first MP to have a son and daughter in the Commons simultaneously . |
| 24 | She had hoped for the opportunity of a quiet word with Iris , of trying to smooth her ruffled feelings before the day 's work , but to her surprise and annoyance she found Rose Kettle at their table and Brigitte laying a third place , while Dora , stony-faced , was sitting alone in the farthest corner . |
| 25 | By the time of the Treaty of Vienna and the Concert of Europe , such a system had become formalized , and the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War brought in many more participants ( and took power to create new States , like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia ) . |
| 26 | Seven other Second XI matches resulted in wins with Southend on Sea reversing the First XI result , beating Woodford Wells by 7 wickets . |
| 27 | The man 's hand was shaken , Phena given a hug , her suitcase put in the boot of a silver car , and the car driven away with Feargal giving a last wave . |
| 28 | And in the Oxon Senior Cup third round ; Peppard five , Malborough one — Peppard 's goals ; after ten minutes , Sid Grover , fifteen minutes , Chris Maxted , twenty five minutes , Dave Smith , seventy five minutes , Dave Smith getting a second goal , eighty minutes , Kevin Watkins and Malborough 's only goal coming in the second half through Darrell Simpson ; so Peppard who do so well in the Oxford Senior Cup , Peppard five , Malborough one . |
| 29 | Ald. McNaughtan laying the first rail , watched by Michael Holroyd-Smith — the inventor — standing by the platform . |