Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colchester only scored six points in the first set but held off the Nomads for more than 27 minutes thanks to solid defence . |
| 2 | Arthur Andersen only audited 31 companies and earned less fee income than firms like Stoy Hayward , Kidsons Impey and Pannell Kerr Forster . |
| 3 | In fact Linton only stayed one night with us . |
| 4 | The survivors themselves later said that Arafat only wanted more martyrs to capture the attention of the world . |
| 5 | ‘ I know that old Sir David only died last year — just before my own father — and I realise that she must be worried sick about poor Owen . |
| 6 | The WEU thus comprised 10 EC countries as full members ( Belgium , France , Germany , Greece , Luxembourg , Italy , Netherlands , Portugal , Spain and the United Kingdom ) , the other two as observer members , and three associate members . |
| 7 | The Schlesingers already had five children including one , John , who was destined to become a leading film director . |
| 8 | Spencer thus condemned any attempt to change women 's position in society , just as he opposed any state intervention to safeguard the position of the poor and weak . |
| 9 | Richard just wanted red paint . |
| 10 | William Hill yesterday quoted Travelling Light as their 7-2 market leader ( from 4-1 ) but added a ‘ with a run ’ proviso as they had heard that all was not well with the three-year-old , who is trained by Lynda Ramsden at Sandhutton near Thirsk . |
| 11 | The venomous exchanges between deputies from the two republics in the Kremlin yesterday offered little hope that reason would prevail . |
| 12 | Even in 1659 the Peace of the Pyrenees still left 350 terres contentieuses scattered along it , with isolated enclaves on both sides , little islands of French or Spanish territory in a surrounding sea of foreign-ruled land . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is the legacy of my Fifties upbringing , when the States always had that image of the cornucopia of goodies and pleasureable things , with no whiff of European austerity and rationing . |
| 14 | Donna always had that effect on her . |
| 15 | When the lawyer representing British Caledonian Airways , who were opposing Virgin 's application , remarked that Virgin would need ‘ a lot of groups on Top of the Pops ' to afford to run an airline , Branson promptly retorted that Virgin 's £11.4m profits in 1983 were actually more than twice those of British Caledonian . |
| 16 | The Walkman was lying in the road beside the vehicles , and Spicer later returned four cassettes taken from the Peugeot . |
| 17 | Under the agreement , Agudat Yisrael also gained three deputy ministerships and the chair of the powerful Knesset finance committee . |
| 18 | Gorbachev also announced that emergency measures to combat organized crime , including a " special service " under the President 's control , and to tackle food shortages and rail transport problems , would be put into effect . |
| 19 | Hungary also promised humanitarian aid to the Russian army in the form of medical supplies and undertook to give help , " commensurate with its means " , for the construction of housing for Soviet troops previously stationed in Hungary . |
| 20 | Helen and Pat both wore fashionable clothes — circular skirts , padded bras , clinging sweaters — and make-up . |
| 21 | Since Balbinder clearly made more progress in a small group where he could have a lot of attention , and where all worked at the same pace , this could be an answer . |
| 22 | Ramsey instantly scrapped this plan . |
| 23 | Steven also missed last Friday 's league match at Nancy and may be rested for Saturday 's match with Montpellier in view of the possible championship-decider at Monaco a week on Saturday . |
| 24 | Hewitt-Jones also wrote orchestral music , including a Sinfonietta for Strings ( 1959 ) , concertos for oboe , for clarinet and for trumpet ( 1966 , 1968 , 1976 ) , the first and last being works of considerable substance and worthwhile additions to somewhat restricted repertoires . |
| 25 | And , of course , Strauss also wrote wonderful music as a very old man . |
| 26 | Professor Botha also said neither woman had been raped , although he added that further tests are to be conducted on the bodies . |
| 27 | Botha also admitted that pro-South African parties had received funds in the November 1989 elections in Namibia [ see pp. 37031-32 ] . |
| 28 | The Northumbrian regnal list gives Aldfrith a reign of twenty years and Bede correspondingly assigned him a reign from 685 to 705 ( HE IV , 26 ; V , 18 ) , but Bede also knew , perhaps from knowledge of a more precise regnal figure , that Aldfrith really reigned nineteen years ( HE V , 1 ) and died before the end o his twentieth regnal year ( HE V , 18 ) . |
| 29 | Mr Arafat today met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo for talks on the proposed PLO-Israeli peace agreement . |
| 30 | In time , Branson and Oldfield even became close friends again . |