Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Sunderland striker steadied himself before blasting an unstoppable left-foot drive past Karavaev . |
| 2 | THE Bangor club set something of a record yesterday when their junior team won the NIBA Tyrell Tanks Division one championship with a victory over Lisnagarvey . |
| 3 | THE Bangor club set something of a record yesterday when their junior team won the NIBA Tyrell Tanks Division one championship with a victory over Lisnagarvey . |
| 4 | The March gale hurled itself against Mr Whittaker 's windows . |
| 5 | JIM COURIER redeemed himself for past Davis Cup failures by beating Switzerland 's Jakob Hlasek in Fort Worth , Texas last night to clinch the Cup for the United States for the 30th time since 1900 . |
| 6 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 7 | ‘ Guys come in with board injuries and they say , Johnny Boy did it to me . |
| 8 | DAVID BARDSLEY will be re-united with Graham Taylor in Spain next week — nine years after the then Watford boss signed him from Blackpool . |
| 9 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 10 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 11 | The Cherry and Whites came to their senses then , and Martin Roberts kick started them with a penalty . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 13 | ‘ I hear you 're thinking of retiring , ’ David Knell informed me over coffee one morning . |
| 14 | It is doubtful whether many of the denizens of Admass society saw themselves as victims in the way Priestley did . |
| 15 | The prince 's personal press secretary Dickie Arbiter ferried them round the Queen 's estate at Sandringham , Norfolk , so they could film the photographers snapping the royal shooting party from a public road . |
| 16 | During production , or soon afterwards , the Alexis Master adapted it for the use of St Christina of Markyate ( born c .1096 , q.v. ) by adding the Alexis and Emmaus drawings , intended to echo incidents in Christina 's own life . |
| 17 | Bobby Lavender asked me about the target range . |
| 18 | ‘ The worshippers ’ he continued , ‘ are still regarded mainly as an audience but the house is manifestly a house of God ’ : Newman Hall intended it to be both a non-denominational centre and a ‘ Cathedral of Nonconformity ’ . |
| 19 | And ever since she had realized who the Doyle boy reminded her of , she had thought she knew what kind of thing was wrong . |
| 20 | Your article on hedgehogs in the March issue reminded me of an incident last summer . |
| 21 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 22 | The former England striker injured himself in the Coca-Cola Cup replay with Everton on Tuesday and a specialist has advised complete rest . |
| 23 | The IRA bomb in Hyde Park left him with twenty serious shrapnel wounds . |
| 24 | He was still at school when Simon Rattle directed him to Hurst . |
| 25 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 26 | Jane Postlethwaite watched them with pleasure . |
| 27 | ‘ In 1985 the England team got plenty of studs in their backs and shoulders . |
| 28 | As the New York Daily News put it on the eve of the ballot : ‘ The Muck Stops Here ! ’ |
| 29 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 30 | Chiang Kai-shek built it with forced labour , and dusty antique-model lorries still ply it , driven by young men in white gloves . |