Example sentences of "a [noun] with a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOWARD Wilkinson has revealed how he transformed Eric Cantona from a frog into a prince with a piece of plain Yorkshire talk . |
| 2 | But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it . |
| 3 | But City have picked up a bit with a draw at Chelsea and a comfortable win against Crystal Palace , and with the suspended Morley replaced by Oldfield , who knows where the goal is , they will be confident today . |
| 4 | Police are now talking to a 30 year old friend of the family , who 's up a tree in the nearby woods , threatening to jump off a branch with a rope round his neck . |
| 5 | He had refused and had been put before a firing-squad with a number of the villagers . |
| 6 | ‘ Lots of reasons , the main one being that he was basically a crook with a number of little operations going at the factory . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll end up waving a stick with a star on it . |
| 8 | The restrictors fitted to the Stage One V8 are easily removed by removing the carbs and pulling the restrictor from the manifold They are in fact aluminium discs with three holes about ⅜″. diameter in each one and are held in by an expanding steel clip Select a suitable diameter tap and tap a thread with a smear of grease on the top to collect swarf , fit a long bolt and lever out with a pry bar Extremely obstinate ones may be split into three large bits with a small chisel and pulled out Clean the debris out with a vacuum cleaner A piece of l/2″ hose taped onto the suction pipe will reach most places in the manifold . |
| 9 | Christianity is rational partly because it is a faith with a foundation of sure and sufficient reasons . |
| 10 | ‘ Scratching a board with a bit of chalk ? |
| 11 | The adjacent farmstead includes a building with a number of fine sixteenth- and seventeenth-century doorways and windows , now used as a barn . |
| 12 | A scrape with a fingernail plus a bit of sweat are all that is required . |
| 13 | However , he was a writer with a number of plays to his credit , none of them great successes but all worthy of note . |
| 14 | The irregular inflection will be presented as a headword with a reference to the appropriate root form . |
| 15 | In common with most teenagers , David took a couple of part-time jobs , one riding around on a pushbike with a basket on the front for a butcher , and another working for a record shop owned by Vic Furlong . |
| 16 | Mulling it over as she strolled along in the morning sunshine , passed occasionally by a battered Renault or a woman on a pushbike with a basket of baguettes swinging from the handlebars , Melissa felt more and more uneasy at her friend 's obvious emotional commitment to Bonard . |
| 17 | This Wordsworthian woman was transformed into a nice old lady in a cottage with a window through which to watch as she said , the world go by ’ . |
| 18 | Sharing a cottage with a lot of people on a hill-walking holiday is a revelation . |
| 19 | Tabitha Campbell-Black was livid because she won a bag of Bailey 's Performance Mix horse feed rather than a T-shirt with a picture of a polo pony on the front . |
| 20 | This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife . |
| 21 | It 's a bit like being a road-builder with a brother on the council . |
| 22 | The paper proposed a computer with a store of 409640-bit words stored on the faces of a number of " Selectrons " or electrostatic storage tubes , this being a device able to provide random-access storage before the introduction of the ferrite core store ( first used on the Whirlwind computer at MIT in 1953 ) . |
| 23 | You , you come down through a field with a lot of beasts in it ? |
| 24 | For instance a manufacturer and a wholesaler could enter into a contract for the supply of domestic refrigerators ( consumer goods ) for onward sale by the wholesaler to retailers , while a factory owner could enter into a contract with a manufacturer for the supply of a machine for use in his factory ( commercial goods ) . |
| 25 | Take , for example , a case in which an employer is considering entering into a contract with a contractor for substantial building work but requires the contractor 's obligations to be supported by a bank or insurance company bond . |
| 26 | Although opposition to the bondholders ' position was voiced loudly at the 1978 Annual General Meeting — when R.C.E. ( Robert ) Naish ( a non-bondholder with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare ) became President — it at least caused the bondholders to consider the question of their status . |
| 27 | Maitland became a Christian with a gift for utterance . |
| 28 | The breed 's history is described later , but its systematic improvement , begun at that time by a blacksmith with a herd near Burton-on-Trent , was to become the breeding blueprint once it was adopted by the master breeder Robert Bakewell in 1760 . |
| 29 | In the middle of the Thursday matinée a Salvation Army band began to play carols in the square and Rose sent out a donation with a request for them to move further off . |
| 30 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |