Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was still much danger : the palace was heavily guarded , and even if they got away King Minos had many warships which could chase and sink them . |
| 2 | By 1886 La Chapelle covered 60 hectares of land , and it was lit by electric light from 1877 . |
| 3 | England full-back Jon Webb had some game … he joined in the attacks when he could and kicked five out of five penalties … |
| 4 | Frank Page of Loughborough University won first prize in the materials science category of the tenth annual Polaroid international photomicrography competition , for his micrograph ( above ) depicting ultra high velocity jet plated gold . |
| 5 | Of the two famous rune stones which stand outside the church at Jelling , the smaller states that " King Gorm made these memorials to Thyre his wife , Denmark 's ornament " ; the larger that " King Harald commanded these memorials made to Gorm his father and Thyre his mother . |
| 6 | On Feb. 5 Public Welfare Minister Supardjo Rustam announced that famine in Kuriwa , a district of the remote province of Irian Jaya , had claimed the lives of 132 people , after bad weather had prevented crop-planting in the area . |
| 7 | The Sunderland board met last night when the ticket distribution was the main item on the agenda . |
| 8 | But the consignor , had to settle for the $750,000 ( £468,750 ) Berry-Hill Galleries paid this time . |
| 9 | Reasoning about diseases of the heart and blood vessels began to have a sound basis when , in the seventeenth century , William Harvey established that blood circulates from the heart , through arteries to the minute capillary vessels in every organ , and back by the veins to the heart . |
| 10 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 11 | Thus in the 1920s Walter Elliot argued that Conservatism was based on -an observation of life and not a priori reasoning' , while more recently Sir Ian Gilmour declared that Conservatism is ‘ not an ideology or a doctrine ’ . |
| 12 | In the seventh minute , just after Broddle had been booked for a tackle on Derek Ferguson , Ian Ferguson had cruel luck with a header that hit the post . |
| 13 | Jim Davidson sent six bottles of champagne with a card saying , ‘ What a way to get into the papers , ’ and one evening I received the largest basket of poinsettias I 've ever seen , totally stunning , with a card saying , ‘ Thinking of you — lots of love , Elton . ’ |
| 14 | Beneath his new submissiveness Herr Nordern felt another flicker of exasperation , the more so because he was being submissive . |
| 15 | Against his better judgement Herr Nordern gulped some beer and then mopped his face with his handkerchief . |
| 16 | Jeffery and Sheila Parfitt blamed social services for failing to help when the burden of care overwhelmed them . |
| 17 | Memorex Telex Corp said last week that it will adopt Unix System V.4.2 for its server and desktop product lines in order to offer more options for what it claims is the second-largest installed base of IBM Corp peripheral products worldwide . |
| 18 | GARRY HARVEY played 24 holes in one under par to take a surprise halfway lead over fellow Scot Bill Longmuir in the Rome Masters at Castelgandolfo yesterday . |
| 19 | Jim Kelly threw three touchdown passes and Thurman Thomas rushed for 155 yards as the Buffalo Bills won their AFC showdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers 28–20 . |
| 20 | However , those less interested in the in-fighting in the House of Windsor than the environment will have noticed that Sarah Ferguson did one thing RIGHT . |
| 21 | However , the WO statisticians said this county practice of estimating higher than the ‘ base estimate ’ population growth did not add up — there simply will not be enough people to reach the higher estimates , even with the historically high levels of inward migration being predicted . |
| 22 | JAPAN has decided to remain a member of the International Whaling Commission to lobby against the creation of a whale sanctuary in the Antarctic , Farm Minister Masami Tanabu said last night . |
| 23 | WHEN that grand old man of the turf Jim Joel died last spring at the age of 97 , a condition in his will allowed the Queen Mother to choose any horse she wished from his estate . |
| 24 | Pop singer Alison Moyet performed two hits and Ben Elton did a quick comic turn , describing Dr David Owen 's endorsement of the Tories as a ‘ poisoned chalice ’ and being rude about John Major . |
| 25 | See Van Basten got another hat trick . |
| 26 | MARCO VAN BASTEN scored four times as unbeaten AC Milan routed Napoli 5-1 to stay two points clear at the top of Italy 's Serie A. |
| 27 | AC MILAN striker Marco van Basten scored four goals as the European Cup favourites trounced Sweden 's IFK Gothenburg in their opening semi-final Group B match . |
| 28 | MARCO VAN BASTEN gave further evidence that he is one of football 's most lethal strikers with a devastating performance for AC Milan . |
| 29 | Dean Bunn died five days earlier . |
| 30 | Maria McFadden turned sparkling eyes on the fair man who called himself Florian Jones . |