Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun prp] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID Pleat shrugged off Luton 's 2-1 defeat away to his old club Leicester and insisted : ‘ We are not going to change our style . |
| 2 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 3 | JUST AS the world succumbed to the vile peace and love mumblings of ‘ Sgt Pepper ’ and San Francisco flower-in-the-hair wearers , former session hack Lou Reed , art bod John Cale and friends teamed up with foghorn-voiced German model Nico and made the album without which no-one from The Jesus And Mary Chain to Ride would have a clue . |
| 4 | ( As explained in the last chapter , REM sleep may be scored as such when hardly any rapid eye movements are occurring , so long as the record of low voltage EEC and reduced EMG continues uninterruptedly . ) |
| 5 | After 10 years of torment , Kiranjit Ahluwalia , 36 , threw petrol over sleeping husband Deepak and set him on fire . |
| 6 | He named this enormous herbivorous reptile Iguanodon and went on to coin the term ‘ geological age of reptiles ’ in an article published in 1831 . |
| 7 | His mother immediately dumped the package in her driveway in Protestant West Belfast and called the police . |
| 8 | I said goodbye to Mum sadly , left South London and went to stay with Dad and Eva once more . |
| 9 | Bill Lewis spent many years dowsing the standing stones of his native South Wales and came to believe that a crossing of underground streams beneath each ‘ active ’ standing stone creates a small static electric field . |
| 10 | The event marked GLR 's contribution to National Music Day and provided acoustic sets from Bob Geldof , Midge Ure and Julia Fordham , amongst others . |
| 11 | BANK Officer Noel Crossley of Chapel-en-le-Frith Branch dressed up as a tomato on Comic Relief Day and went on a tour of the town with a collection bucket . |
| 12 | Younger brother of former Springbok Helgard and spent a season playing in Dublin . |
| 13 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 14 | Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian . |
| 15 | were trailing 18–0 in their first round cup-tie Bradford and went desperately close to another major upset against a North Division One side , but York ended four points short of victory at 18–15 . |
| 16 | were trailing 18–0 in their first round cup-tie Bradford and went desperately close to another major upset against a North Division One side , but York ended four points short of victory at 18–15 . |
| 17 | Patrese out-qualified team-leader Mansell and drove a storming race until gearbox failure caused a retirement crash |
| 18 | At Busiris in the Delta he supplanted the ancient royal god Anedjety and took his insignia of rule , the crook and the flail . |