Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 2 | It is her garden that now absorbs much of C.Z. 's time and it was a logical step for Bowles and photographer Pamela Hanson to use it as a setting for their fashion story ( p 162 ) , highlighting some of the key ideas for the season . |
| 3 | Professional breeder and retailer TONY SAULT has his say . |
| 4 | Ever since then — and especially since the US politician and writer Ignatius Donnelly published his Atlantis , the Antediluvian World in 1882 — the legend of Atlantis has captured the public imagination . |
| 5 | Famous writer and critic Marghanita Laski expressed her amazement at the strange treatment given to ‘ such words as those till recently written as f-dash and c-dash ’ . |
| 6 | His mother Diane and girlfriend Donna Williams said he had been at home with them . |
| 7 | Today , huge crowds gathered to watch John and girlfriend Jill Morrell launch their new book in Oxford . |
| 8 | Swansea fielded six of the current resurgent Wales team and two of them centre Scott Gibbs and hooker Garin Jenkins grabbed their tries . |
| 9 | If Kirwan is serious — and hooker Sean Fitzpatrick assures us he is — then it is possible that he will not wear the silver fern again because , even though Alex Wyllie is no longer in contention , there 's no guarantee that Hart will get the job . |
| 10 | The SPD polled an average of 26.64 per cent ( 21.88 per cent in March 1990 ) , but apparently only made real inroads on CDU support in Brandenburg , with the respected East Berlin lay Protestant leader and lawyer Manfred Stolpe heading its campaign against the CDU 's Peter-Michael Diestel ( who had been criticized for his handling of the dissolution of the Stasi secret police — see p. 37828 ) . |
| 11 | SECRET talks in London between the African National Congress and a group of liberal Afrikaners , including President FW de Klerk 's brother , ended yesterday with the ANC playing down the significance of the event and President de Klerk dissociating himself from it . |
| 12 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 13 | Pre-tax profits for the year to September have mushroomed 112% to £721,000 and boss Ralph Bernard reckons there is more to come this year . |
| 14 | And caretaker boss Barrow said he was a little disappointed at not taking three points ! |
| 15 | Pivot and glummo Jason Pierce says nothing ; he does n't even look at his adoring audience . |
| 16 | Goals from Rush and rookie Don Hutchison gave them victory after Yugoslav international Milenko Spoliaric had given the Cypriots a shock lead . |
| 17 | The Freakniks , as singer/songwriter Justin Anderson , rapper Michael Lord , and singer Aki Amori describe themselves , are hard to categorise . |
| 18 | TOP music man Simon Draper is quitting Virgin Music just seven months after he and co-founder Richard Branson sold it to Thorn EMI for £560m . |
| 19 | Senior Sister Barber and Deputy Sister Cooler take our ambulances . |
| 20 | Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that ‘ freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices ’ . |
| 21 | Her publisher and friend Carmen Calil described her as ‘ the most original English writer of her generation ’ . |
| 22 | David Kerslake is joining Leeds United for an undisclosed sum , and player-manager Glenn Hoddle says he 'll be sorely missed . |
| 23 | Such photographs are very popular , and Parish Clerk Weekley has one which shows him sitting on his own roof . |
| 24 | Debut winger , Innes Gray , scored two tries in three minutes as Ulster took control in the final quarter , and flanker Kevin McKee made it three tries in five minutes . |
| 25 | Those green shoots of economic spring here in the UK are beginning to feel a mite lonely as the gross domestic product figures from the US yesterday brought more evidence that the recovery there seems to have stalled , and analysts are redoing their sums on IBM Corp in light of recent information : Furman Selz removed the company from its recommended list and analyst Peter Lieu said he lowered his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates because of the extreme gross margin pressure on the mainframe business ; Bear Stearns & Co analyst Cliff Friedman cut his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates on IBM , but bravely maintains a hold rating on the stock ; he trimmed his 1993 estimates on IBM to break-even from $1.25 a share and cut his 1994 estimates to $2.25 , from $3.25 , again citing weak mainframe demand . |
| 26 | World-renowned chef and owner Anton Mosimann greeted his royal guests before serving a traditional Christmas lunch of Scotch salmon in a yoghurt and cucumber sauce , barbecued turkey , and his own recipe vegetarian plum pudding . |
| 27 | This was Watford 's best home performance of the season and manager Steve Perryman maintains his team have the talent — they simply lack consistency . |
| 28 | They led the title race by five points but it all went wrong in the spring championship — Servette lost their championship chance and manager Michel Renquin lost his job . |
| 29 | But Lillywhite said : ‘ My Banana squad and manager Keith Lambert give me confidence to hold on for two more stages . |
| 30 | And manager Walter Smith said he would not play him unless he was fully fit . |