Example sentences of "[noun] [num ord] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 2nd preachers squared off in pulpits around the city on the subjects of condoms and sex education . |
| 2 | TOTTENHAM last night hit out at claims of a rift between chief executive Terry Venables and chairman Alan Sugar . |
| 3 | JOHN BARNES last night faced up to the fact that he must make speedy progress to avoid a long spell in the international wilderness . |
| 4 | OUTSPOKEN Australian winger David Campese last night hit out at the decision to stage Saturday 's match between the world champions and the Barbarians at Twickenham . |
| 5 | I was unaware of this and ca n't afford it anyway , so I was pleased when the manageress of the shop next door came up with the bright idea of playing it in my rest room , where the public are not allowed . |
| 6 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 7 | LIAM BRADY last night hit back at allegations from Borussia Dortmund coach Otmar Hitzfeld that Celtic are ‘ violent ’ . |
| 8 | The committed fighter is already making regular journeys to and from London for specialist training and will box in Canada next month to warm up for Barcelona . |
| 9 | As disrupted transport services were getting back to normal and thousands mopped up , police issued a warning of two more inches of rain last night whipped up by 60 mph winds lasting until this afternoon . |
| 10 | CLUB officials at the Volkswagen National tennis championships last night hit back at complaints by Mark Petchey over playing conditions at Telford . |
| 11 | FRANK BRUNO last night lashed back at Lennox Lewis : ‘ The British public will never believe you are one of us until you live here ! ’ |
| 12 | — Co-operative Wholesale Society sales last year moved up to £3.2bn against £3bn last year . |
| 13 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 14 | CIARAN McVeigh from Parkside Snooker Club , Lurgan whitewashed Kieran Erwin 3–0 in the Drumgor Top 64 tournament last night opening up with a 122 break . |
| 15 | After a goal each from Tony Marchant , for Northern , and Tony Thorniley , loose forward David Heron and skipper David Hobbs combined to put Great Britain second rower Fairbank over for his fourth try of the season in the 17th minute . |
| 16 | MY leisurely drive down the Antrim coast road last Sunday turned out to be anything but relaxing . |
| 17 | Newcastle 's Benny Kristensen last night hit back at claims that he missed out on a £150,000 move to Bristol City because of knee trouble . |
| 18 | Getting its timing just right — and hoping to be the Chips and Technologies Inc of its breed — Santa Clara , California start-up Nimbus Technologies Inc will next week come out with with the first chipset , targeted at the compatible builders , which is tailored for use with the superscalar Sparcs — Viking and HyperSparc — both due in the second half of the year , see above . |
| 19 | Santa Clara , California start-up Nimbus Technologies Inc will next week come out with the first chipset targeted at the compatible builders which is tailored for use with the superscalar Sparcs — Viking and HyperSparc — both expected to hit the market in the second half of the year , see front page . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , police last night hit back at a lawyer 's claim that they had mishandled the arrest of a 12-year-old boy who was released and eliminated from the inquiry last Wednesday . |
| 21 | My bus next morning set out for Ballina , westward to County Mayo , to the place where General Humbert of revolutionary France had landed with his soldiers to help drive the English out of Ireland , in 1798 . |
| 22 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 23 | Fortunately for everyone concerned , Thursday last week turned out to be one of the finest days this year … making the Bucks Horn Oak polling station one of the most idyllic in Britain . |
| 24 | THE grandfather of Cadbury Flake girl Rachel Brown last night hit out at the ‘ evil ’ person who gave her the designer drug Ecstasy . |
| 25 | ACTRESS Jane Fonda last night bowed out of movies . |
| 26 | ‘ The Prince was on a dahabeeyah last night coming back from Karnak and someone fell overboard . ’ |
| 27 | Kirgizstan 's decision last month to pull out of the rouble zone has infuriated the other four . |
| 28 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales last night stepped out on the town together after a day apart on separate engagements in the South Korean capital of Seoul . |
| 29 | THE PRINCESS of Wales last night spoke out for the first time about the ‘ untrue and hurtful ’ allegations about friction between her , and the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh . |