Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fear which before had turned Owen 's limbs to water now suddenly galvanised him . |
| 2 | MacArthur , living legend and darling of the China Lobby which still hoped to see Chiang Kai-Shek back in China , returned to a public uproar which was definitely in his favour . |
| 3 | For a moment she really had thought Dana had been hurt . |
| 4 | Seles was knifed in the back during a quarter-final match at the Citizen Cup in Hamburg on April 30 by a German who allegedly wanted to help Steffi Graf regain her number one world ranking . |
| 5 | Philip himself now began to understand Innocent better . |
| 6 | It was run by a man and his wife who obviously did know Schellenberg well . |
| 7 | As a result , the top lots all had predicted CGIs between 900 and 1150 points — the black-and-white breed average is about 500 , and animals over CGI 730 are in the top 1% of the UK population . |
| 8 | Corbett let his mind drift , feeling guilty because when he thought about Maeve he also kept remembering Dame Agatha 's angelic face . |
| 9 | The second proposal was to set up a long-term residential therapeutic centre which eventually involved inviting Phoenix House , an established and reputable charity , to set up in Wirral . |
| 10 | ‘ That boy will be hanged ! ’ said the man who earlier had called Oliver a fool . |
| 11 | The Abbey National is the latest company to target the Chancellor as the man it most wants to replace Sir Campbell Adamson when he eventually retires as chairman . |
| 12 | He could not even pay the small army he desperately needed to reconquer America ; still less could he pay the inflated army bequeathed by the War of Independence . |
| 13 | Robert Maxwell , the Daily Mirror publisher who once offered to buy Edwards 's shares , was rumoured yesterday to be still interested , but his family 's interest in other football League clubs — Derby and Oxford — would face problems from the Football League 's limitations on club ownership . |
| 14 | Marvellous the way he always had to do Camb 's work for him ! |
| 15 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |