Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Johnson group seized the wounded Doe and took him away , while the ECOWAS force looked on , apparently helpless . |
| 2 | While there he begged a look around a semi-derelict Dakota and realised he was hooked on propliners ! |
| 3 | Eckersley then took over , conceded another run when Tony Fernandez scored on a sacrifice fly but stayed cool enough to strike out Junior Felix and end the game . |
| 4 | Hodge came from rural Illinois and had climbed the military hierarchy without the prestige of having served at West Point . |
| 5 | Hardly a day goes by without being neck-high in severely anoraked shop assistants , munching Kit-Kats and watching endless slides of football ground urinals from the length and breadth of Britain . |
| 6 | Mr Pozsgay 's contribution was his support for ‘ populist ’ writers who drew their inspiration from rural Hungary and championed ‘ national values ’ . |
| 7 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 8 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 9 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |
| 10 | So when I have to weigh up whether I can afford to trade in my battered old VW and think of those who have a BMW or Mercedes , then you begin to wonder at the sense of it all . |
| 11 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 12 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 13 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |
| 14 | He feels more affinity with the Beltex than the French Texel and says the word ‘ Beltex ’ has been conjured up by UK interests . |
| 15 | Then along comes old McWhirter and says he will plonk his life savings in the school . ’ |
| 16 | Lenticularity between the so-called Larne and Carnduff halites , conspicuous near the east end of Line AA' , is probably caused by near-surface salt leaching in the present cycle of erosion . |
| 17 | P. E. When we were at Old Swan and had to go to Fairfield , we used to pass the end of one of the little streets there . |
| 18 | especially rural society , in medieval England and to answer some of the basic questions relating to it . |
| 19 | Six members of staff restrained Sigsworth and took him into a secure room where he was injected with a drug and the police were called . |
| 20 | At last he can cut down on teaching , write a personal travel book about the lesser Antilles and write novels that need no longer return to his own , blasted childhood . |
| 21 | EastEnder Ian Woodyatt is also a confirmed Trekkie and wants to play Worf the Klingon 's side-kick . |
| 22 | Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ . |
| 23 | And he glanced round at the still-insensible Liam and threw away the cigarette in disgust . |
| 24 | Reducing The Risk , a leaflet sponsored by British Telecom and published by the Trust , emphasises that if you feel frightened , you should listen to your instincts and speak calmly , gently and slowly . |
| 25 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 26 | The Captain held his sword blade upright , almost at the salute , to show that he was neither menacing Sharpe nor trying to defend against him . |
| 27 | One , to the left , straddled the old geographic areas of Switzerland and Austria ; the other , smaller and to the right , traced the border of old Russia and cut down into Rumania . |
| 28 | We sit in the lounge off his bedroom , on the top floor of the hotel , smoking Js and drinking whisky . |
| 29 | The normal rims are the same as SIII LWB , the heavy duty are the same as the old IIA and IIB forward controls and odd military fire engines , etc . |
| 30 | Farnlucher told the jury he was trained as a medic by the German Luftwaffe but had become a certified osteopath through an American University . |