Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the relatives of those who died , like Andy Barnes who lost his 15-year-old daughter Paula , are still waiting for compensation . |
| 2 | Many years ago when I was in a play with Thora Hird she presented us all at the end of the show with a bottle of champagne . |
| 3 | Meridian Broadcasting will make its comedy drama debut on January 5 with Full Stretch , a six-part series starring Kevin McNally as ex-Chelsea footballer Baz Levick who runs his own limo hire company from a garage in North London . |
| 4 | Liverpool 's Ian Rush who scored his 200th league goal yesterday |
| 5 | It was Frank Foley who told him this , in his small office in Broadway . |
| 6 | The scheme was officially launched by Earl Spencer who said his own car had twice been broken into in Northampton . |
| 7 | Within weeks , Time Out had an article written by London playwright and football fan Mick Mahoney who got it right when he pointed out that ‘ if Nike brought out a crocodile-skin trainer for £140 , it would be a smash ’ . |
| 8 | THE Vienna-born American pianist Ruth Geiger who started her week-long North-East tour in Sunderland Art Gallery on Tuesday , is an extremely fine artiste . |
| 9 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 10 | After coffee our final speaker was Dr Findlater who kept us all enthralled by his expertise and enthusiastic approach to the history of human anatomy . |
| 11 | The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning . |
| 12 | To Christopher Smith he left his large harpsichord . |
| 13 | Ian Leigh Glover making slow recoveries but at least there 's good news in the return of centre half Colin Cooper who starts his first game for two months and two recently injured strikers are back in tandem , ironically the biggest partnership in the Division . |
| 14 | The meeting , convened at the initiative of US President Bush following his appeal in May for an end to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East [ see p. 38217 ] , was reported to have received strong backing from French President Mitterrand who launched his own arms control programme in June [ see p. 38314 ] . |
| 15 | She tried a red-and-pink Chanel shift , a Lacroix confection splattered with turquoise roses and a long green tube by Azzedine Alaia which made her six foot , 128 lb body look like some exotic serpent . |
| 16 | After this initial rebuild , further work was carried out by several resident archbishops , most particularly San Carlo Borromeo who used his favourite architect Pelligrino Tibaldi ( Il Pellegrini ) . |
| 17 | ’ Moby Dick ’ is the latest production from Cameron Mackintosh who brought us such favourites as ’ Cats ’ , ’ Miss Saigon ’ and ’ Phantom of the Opera ’ . |
| 18 | Some of them are very , very frail and they really get something out of the music , ’ said Mr Harper who likes nothing better than a foot-tapping , clapping and smiling congregation . |
| 19 | These figures range from Azam Khan , ‘ one of the chief nobles of the Empire ’ whose principal claim to fame is his vast harem and his insatiable appetites ( ‘ a pederast , he is also fond of beautiful girls … whenever he is informed of the availability of a lad or a fine wench he endeavours to be the buyer ’ ) ; through Taqi , ‘ one of the famous eunuchs and the ringleader of the conjurors of Hindustan ’ ( ‘ his house is the abode of delicate beauties , some as fair as the dawn while others are as dark as volatile passion ’ ) ; to great musicians such as the blind drummer Shah Nawaz who played his own stomach as if it was a tabla drum ; or the disgusting Surkhi , a glutton who ‘ snored and expectorated loudly ’ but whose horrible habits were overlooked by his hosts because of the unique beauty of his voice ( ‘ as melodious as a nightingale ’ ) , his brilliant mimicry and his ready wit . |
| 20 | Rose Hilaire herself had nothing much to say . |
| 21 | To know God and yet nothing of our own wretched state breeds pride ; to realize our misery and know nothing of God is mere despair ; but if we come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ we find our true equilibrium , for there we find both human misery and God . |
| 22 | It comes from Lake Tanganyika which makes it ideal for inclusion in African Rift Valley Cichlid set-ups . |
| 23 | I read a review of a biography of Havelock Ellis which described his mystical union with nature . |
| 24 | Richard was the King 's brother ; according to Henry 's mood and caprice that might make the young man either indispensable or unthinkable , but even for de Burgh it made it difficult to disparage his stewardship openly . |
| 25 | As Leonard Lowe he faces his biggest career challenge since Raging Bull . |
| 26 | It is appropriate timing , though doubtless coincidental , that this sale of manuscript and printed Americana should feature a previously unknown autograph leaf by Abraham Lincoln which preserves his earliest formulation of the ‘ house divided ’ doctrine . |
| 27 | The essential point is that sexuality as such disturbed him — even in his early letters to Conrad Aiken we see his sexual impulses towards women engaged in an unequal struggle with his own need for self-possession ( or self-preservation ) and control . |
| 28 | Thomson floats it in straight into the hands of Tommy Wright who hits it first time quite sensibly but a bit too strongly straight back to his opposite number . |
| 29 | But both had to give way to Larne AC 's flying doctor Peter Howie who produced his best ever run by storming through in the closing stages to grab the runner up spot . |
| 30 | Lawrence and Aldous Huxley who created their own myth of a lost Etruscan Eden . |