Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he defected to Benetton last year after just one outing , his old boss Eddie Jordan still charged him £150,000 compensation per Grand Prix race for the privilege of confirming that he was the nearest thing to Ayrton Senna since , well , Ayrton Senna . |
| 2 | A BALLET lover yesterday lost her £200 damages claim over what she rated as a bad performance by superstar Rudolph Nureyev . |
| 3 | Topping the list is Barbara Piasecka-Johnson , who does not really count : she inherited her $550m fortune from her husband , chairman of America 's Johnson and Johnson company , whom she met while working as a maid in his house . |
| 4 | Katrina Deeley , 39 , of Oxford , who died in November , split her £268,497 estate between the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children . |
| 5 | The council confirmed that child protection procedures were invoked on 1 February , the day after Ms Gibson , 34 , left her £75,000 flat in Stamford Court , Hammersmith , west London . |