Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | TWO splendidly taken goals in the second half capped a relentless and determined team performance which lifted Sheffield Wednesday closer to a place in Europe next season , writes Timothy Collings . |
| 2 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 3 | Rapid industrial growth in the latter half of the nineteenth century promoted a political culture that can only with caution be described as radical . |
| 4 | We have discovered a human sub species of the late twentieth century called a Trekky . |
| 5 | This is not a unique case the Planning Committee at its last meeting made a similar recommendation on a different mineral site . |
| 6 | FURIOUS Hindu leaders last night branded a new sex video based on the Kama Sutra outrageous . |
| 7 | IRISH Prime Minister Albert Reynolds last night called a general election after losing a confidence vote . |
| 8 | ROBIN SMITH was last night given a welcome vote of confidence after his latest painful examination by legspin . |
| 9 | AMERICAN athlete Butch Reynolds was last night awarded a staggering £18.5 million in damages in his claim against the International Amateur Athletics Federation . |
| 10 | ‘ Sonny Pigg , lead singer of the Mothers of Violence , who last month released a successful solo album dedicated to ‘ The Tasmanian Devil , ’ has issued a press statement in which he claims that ‘ the Devil is a real gone guy , and we should go with the groove for him when the bloodtide comes round . |
| 11 | The fact that flu and injury had precluded any live scrummaging last Wednesday had a detrimental effect , and that department will have to be better for Twickenham . |