Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 2 | Geelong forward Gary Ablett led his team with a record-breaking nine goals and became only the second person to win the most valuable player award while playing on a losing side . |
| 3 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 4 | It was begun in 1084 and built over a seventh century church which now forms a crypt . |
| 5 | In his nigh on sixty years , he had lost two fortunes and built up a third . |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair . |
| 7 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 8 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 9 | He stretched his throat and gulped down a third of the liquid in the glass . |
| 10 | They were underlined by Labour 's Defence Review of 1974–5 which committed Britain 's ground forces solely to the defending of continental Europe , and stripped away the last fragments of the country 's global pretensions . |
| 11 | By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead . |
| 12 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 13 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |
| 14 | Mrs Mantini straightened up and puffed out a last breath of her garlic-and-onion lunch . |
| 15 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 16 | With a sigh , and a glance of regret at the clear , bright day outside , he settled down in his chair and took up the first of the tomes . |
| 17 | We climbed up again and rolled down a second time , Mom sighing and giggling again , again . |
| 18 | In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 19 | Gathering her wits , she hurried into the workshop and picked up a last and a half-tapped boon Returning to the kitchen , she indicated with a nod of her head that Craig sit on the stool near the fire . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't tempt me , ’ she said with a wry laugh , and picked up the next file . |
| 21 | Twelve minutes after the break he moved into the middle during a rare Palace break and was in just the right spot to hammer home a left-wing cross to give Palace a great victory and set up a 3rd round tie against Liverpool ! |
| 22 | After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies . |
| 23 | When the selected pile alone remained , he switched on a powerful reading spotlamp above the table , took a jeweller 's loupe from his pocket , a pair of tweezers in his right hand , and held up the first stone to the light . |
| 24 | Couples not only finished top of the US rankings but became only the eighth player in history to win the Vardon Trophy , awarded for the lowest stroke average , and the PGA Player of the Year . |
| 25 | Being obliged to earn a living without intermission , Jane had no time to pick and choose , but snapped up the first offer — on a woman 's magazine . |