Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 2 | He talked to Tuathal and then to the toisechs as he put on his mail shirt again and took up his helmet . |
| 3 | Two brothers were reunited amid the misery of a Croatian refugee camp yesterday and celebrated as best they could … by sharing a bowl of scraps . |
| 4 | Harry obediently followed Miss Labrooy aboard and sat down opposite her . |
| 5 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 6 | Benin eased the velvet curtains apart and looked out over the brightly lit garden . |
| 7 | She opened the car door determinedly and got out . |
| 8 | Then she examined what she could of her singed hair , licked her cut lip better and tried to smooth her broken nails . |
| 9 | This view argued that section 7 was meant as an accounting section only and contained only a prohibition against annual accumulation deficits . |
| 10 | PRINCESS Diana held hands with a dying AIDS victim yesterday and spent 15 minutes comforting him . |
| 11 | Only one unit of all the British farms in this study was selling dairy products directly and had a demand it could not fulfil . |
| 12 | He contacted the South Africans who had been told they could n't meet a council delegation independently and invited them to a meeting in Darlington town hall . |
| 13 | Instead , the organizers staged a hoax on the 39 horses and their jockeys , together with their trainers , owners and other hangers-on , the few tens of thousands of people waiting in the rain at Aintree ( near Liverpool ) , those who had wagered £75 million on the outcome of the race in Britain alone and the score of broadcasting organizations elsewhere that had brought the right to show the event on television . |
| 14 | ‘ I was having a pub lunch recently and noticed a thumbprint of food on the edge of the plate . |
| 15 | So he , he sat in the mess room there and checked his box against the tickets which were shown on the waybill . |
| 16 | The software houses that hung their hats on the VM operating system , unable to believe that IBM would really squander one of the tiny handful of software jewels in its crown , and , 10 years ago , about the only operating system anywhere that offered the complete answer to the threat from Unix . |
| 17 | Sarah took the gin bottle away and went downstairs . |
| 18 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 19 | England 's chances of winning the Cornhill Test series all but disappeared when Akram became almost unplayable after tea with a ball that was 70 overs old . |
| 20 | Some specialised in building boats quickly and had large numbers of boatbuilders but most docks were very small with a work force of only two or three men . |
| 21 | Soon after he got there the atom bomb all but ended the issue and certainly ended all active prospects for the latest intake of air crew . |
| 22 | Stephen Gray all but completed the full flight test programme , with four flights in one day , August 14 , of the Fighter Collection 's Mk.XIV , MV293 . |
| 23 | Mr Smith , who smelt blood , accused the Government of the biggest tax hike ever and said people would be shocked beyond belief at the cynicism of the Government . |
| 24 | Mr Prescott said Transport Secretary John MacGregor could have made a Commons statement today but claimed Mr MacGregor ‘ was not prepared to cancel his engagements in Scotland ’ . |
| 25 | Alan William Britton , 26 , of Farrer Street , Darlington , appeared before town magistrates yesterday and admitted going equipped to steal . |
| 26 | The physiotherapist visited Mr Brown post-operatively and treated his chest . |
| 27 | Richard Mainwaring from Gloucestershire is the british barefoot water ski-ing champion for the ninth time … that 's a world record … he took the title in the Cotswold Water Park yesterday and set a new British record at the same time … |
| 28 | Richard Mainwaring from Gloucestershire is the british barefoot water ski-ing champion for the ninth time … that 's a world record … he took the title in the Cotswold Water Park yesterday and set a new British record at the same time … |
| 29 | So anyway , they found a quarter gram upstairs and wanted to do both of us for it . |
| 30 | ‘ Now , then , ’ said Mrs Parvis sternly and pushed Mr Brown out of the way . |