Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An official , four soldiers , four children and two adults were injured as a truck driven by two Goajira Indians drove at speed directly at the presidential motorcade . |
| 2 | PLANNERS came under attack yesterday for allegedly being inconsistent in the way they deal with applications . |
| 3 | Crews came under attack twice in Bootle and once in Kirkby . |
| 4 | It did not give , but bones broke like sticks somewhere inside him . |
| 5 | In June a government bill to privatize 30 per cent of Romania 's state-owned companies ran into opposition both within Parliament and from independent trade unions , but it became law on Aug. 14 [ see p. 38400 ] . |
| 6 | THE traditional British breakfast of eggs , bacon and bangers came under attack yesterday on health grounds . |
| 7 | Indeed British reservations began to surface only after the Soviet nuclear test in the late summer of 1949 ( this had occurred some years earlier than expected ) , and when the scale of the American build-up in Britain became apparent . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's the way to do it , ’ said Araminta pleased , as all the puppets came to life again for a curtain call . |
| 9 | TERRY Denison may quit as chief coach after Britain 's swimmers sank without trace here in Barcelona . |
| 10 | MILLIONS of black South Africans went on strike yesterday in what anti-apartheid movements called the biggest stoppage in the country 's history . |
| 11 | Galileo is scheduled to be launched tomorrow on the space shuttle Atlantis , but opponents went to court yesterday in an attempt to stop it . |
| 12 | In North Shields on Sept. 9-10 , hundreds of youths rioted in Meadow Well after the deaths of two young men who crashed a stolen car while being chased by police ; shops , houses and a community centre were burned down [ see p. 38404 ] . |
| 13 | ELECTRICITY engineers and linesmen on the Orkney islands went into battle yesterday against their public enemy number one — the hooded crow . |
| 14 | TWO youths appeared in court yesterday after the death of a schoolgirl in a stolen car . |
| 15 | In 1972 the diver Robert Marx , who has specialised in the salvaging of treasure from wrecks around the world , located the ‘ Maravillas ’ from nautical charts discovered in Seville together with a copy of the ship 's cargo manifest . |
| 16 | Mirpuri and Bangladeshi women came to Britain mainly as a result of immigration control . |
| 17 | A late night attempt to resume talks today by the London ambulance employers ended in failure just before midnight when the unions rejected the call . |
| 18 | The early modern English household listings show that over half ( 55 per cent ) of all over-sixty-year-olds lived with relatives apart from their spouse , and by far the most common of these were unmarried children still living in the parental home . |
| 19 | AN exhibition of hilarious examples of bad English collected from around the world by EC translators went on show yesterday in Brussels . |
| 20 | TWO SERB soldiers accused of war crimes went on trial yesterday in the first attempt by Bosnia 's Muslim authorities to bring alleged perpetrators of atrocities to justice . |
| 21 | Many truces have been violated in the 14-month war and battles raged across Bosnia today as the UN expressed particular concern about the besieged Moslem ‘ safe area ’ of Gorazde . |
| 22 | MANCHESTER United 's FA Cup hopes ended in controversy yesterday after their captain , Steve Bruce , missed an 84th-minute penalty in a thrilling fifth-round tie at Bramall Lane . |