Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wally received a Benefit at the end of 1953–54 and almost 4,000 admirers turned out to see the Palace beat a London XI by six goals to five ! |
| 2 | ‘ One day I shall compose a Møn symphony ! ’ |
| 3 | In the case envisaged the plaintiff should inform the defendant that he will join the maker of the product as co-defendant and that , in the event of the court finding that the injury was not caused by the latent defect , the plaintiff will seek a Sanderson Order against the original defendant in respect of the co-defendant 's costs . |
| 4 | Only one Irish-owned dog has won a UK title , Ch. |
| 5 | A fully equipped microscope that is small enough to fit into a pocket has won a BBC Product Design award . |
| 6 | AROMAN Catholic Democrat who supports abortion has won a California State Senate seat in a traditional Republican constituency , thanks to the unintentional help of her bishop . |
| 7 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 8 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 9 | It was still running in New York , where Ellen Burstyn had won a Tony award for her performance as the mistress whose married lover conducts their affair on a once-a-year , same-time-same-place basis . |
| 10 | Fabric designs produced at Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire have won a Queens Award for Warwick Fabrics , a company which started just 4 years and now sells 70% of output overseas . |
| 11 | They had approached a GLC body , the Greater London Enterprise Board ( GLEB ) , for money and been told that if it was to put money in , an established business person had to be involved . |
| 12 | Gauci had remembered the sale so vividly that , almost ten months later , he had given the Scottish police a probable date for it , 23 November 1988 , and provided a FBI videofit artist with a detailed description of his customer — he believed , a Libyan . |
| 13 | Hurd provided a Heineken view of voluntary work , designed to reach the parts of our society which will always be beyond state provision . |
| 14 | After all , he spoiled the Independent 's early success by foolishly launching a Sunday edition just as recession hit Britain . |
| 15 | Amstrad Plc launched its £300 Pen Pad yesterday , proving that you do n't need a RISC processor to build a pen-based notepad . |
| 16 | Canadians do n't need a US visa . ’ |
| 17 | Confident clients with strong management teams may not need a KPMG presence — provided it is made clear to potential purchasers that price is not to be discussed . |
| 18 | It does not need a PRS licence as copyright exists for only 50 years . |
| 19 | Why Britain does n't need a Khalili museum |
| 20 | To use this program you will need a MIDI card that is 100% MPU-401 compatible . |
| 21 | Not entirely sober one evening in 1832 , Turner entered a Preston temperance meeting for a joke but came out converted . |
| 22 | Karyotype analysis demonstrated a de novo deletion of 15q11-q13 , and molecular analysis demonstrated that the deletion included D15S12 and other proximal markers typically deleted in PWS . |
| 23 | The route to becoming a Harvard dealer was not always straightforward . |
| 24 | Sheffield-born left-back Beresford came close to becoming a Liverpool player during the close season — until the Anfield side pulled out . |
| 25 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 26 | He was a member of the Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers , becoming a Telford medallist of the former for his outstanding paper in 1897 on locomotive efficiency trials on the Caledonian Railway . |
| 27 | In my case , before becoming a Snavely winner , I was but crabgrass in the Garden of Physics . |
| 28 | And Asif Iqbal , who played extensive first-class cricket in his home country , India , before crossing the border and becoming a Pakistan Test star , was also stunned by the omission of Gower . |
| 29 | Later it was revealed that its founder had completed a three-year prison sentence only six months before becoming a GRE agent . |
| 30 | But this man will pull no punches when he is irked : as the head of the Thatcher loyalists determined that she should fight to the end , he threatened to floor a Thatcher aide who was guarding her door unless he allowed him in to see her . |