Example sentences of "[noun] indies ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Indies ' motivation since that year is well dissected : ‘ Caribbean communities are increasingly eager to rid themselves of the images of slavery and servitude . ’ |
| 2 | With West Indies on 147 for 2 and Richards and Richardson in full flow , the game had West Indies ' name on it ; Richards , with 51 from as many balls , had already struck Hemmings for two sixes , but now the Notts man flighted in a superb ball that deceived him completely and took his off-stump . |
| 3 | In theory the teams started equal , with everything to play for — but the tide was now running West Indies ' way . |
| 4 | When Haynes and Richards on played even more aggressively , and then Best joined in again , the game was heading West Indies ' way ; falling wickets slowed things down , though , and in the and the target was reached with three balls and four wickets to spare . |
| 5 | May the force be with you : West Indies ' bowling heroes Curtly Ambrose ( left ) , who had match figures of 8–81 , and Courtney Walsh , whose spell of 11–7–8–4 on the last morning was decisive . |
| 6 | The first morning of the match did actually belong to England , West Indies ' lunchtime score being 77 for 4 ; but then Botham bowled poorly , and Greenidge and Dujon accepted this beneficence grate fully . |
| 7 | YORKSHIRE were last night on the brink of pipping Worcester for the signature of West Indies ' paceman Ken Benjamin to boost their weak attack . |
| 8 | The West Indies ' medium-pacer helped send Pakistan crashing to 81 all out , giving the West Indies victory by 133 runs in their World Series Cup day-night match in Sydney . |
| 9 | A brief shower reduced West Indies ' target to 199 from 47 overs , and Greenidge , Rowe and Kallicharran looked to have this well under control . |
| 10 | Kenneth Benjamin claims a stump following West Indies ' victory , in the Test match against South Africa . |
| 11 | There was another significant , invariable factor — the phenomenal West Indies ' record on the unpretentious little ground on the outskirts of Bridgetown where they now swept to their eleventh consecutive victory in its 28 Tests . |
| 12 | Haynes fell to the first ball of West Indies ' reply , but the local pair of Lara and Simmons added 78 before the former fell to Kuiper . |
| 13 | Five of the West Indies ' side will , by contrast , have had ideal preparation after playing in today 's Geddes Grant Cup final between Trinidad and Barbados at the Queen 's Park Oval . |
| 14 | ENGLAND 'S HIGHLY competent performances in New Zealand , coupled with certain reservations about Australia 's collective reliability , led to a shift in odds as the competitors gathered for the World Cup , with West Indies ' failure in the recent triangular World Series Cup reducing their stocks proportionately to the lift achieved by India in that tournament . |
| 15 | The credit for West Indies ' world domination from the mid-1970s onwards must lie very largely with Lloyd . |
| 16 | The batting , though , is nothing like the force of old , with a lack of runs undermining the West Indies ' World Cup challenge . |