Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 2 | PC World chairman Jan Murray reckons it was only a matter of time before PCs lost their premium product status and started being treated like any other commodity item . |
| 3 | Secretary Jim McDowell says he will still consider players who may not yet have had the chance to come forward for consideration . |
| 4 | In her heart Olga Stych hoped her mother would take the hint and depart . |
| 5 | POWERHOUSE Scot Colin Montgomerie cracked his third-round jinx to take a six-shot lead into the final day of the Canon European Masters in Switzerland . |
| 6 | Northern Ireland international striker Colin Clarke retains his place in Portsmouth 's team for the home League game against Tranmere after scoring twice in the FA Cup victory at Middlesbrough in midweek . |
| 7 | An SAR helicopter of the Army Air Corps and an RAF Nimrod began a search , and at 0015 on Friday 9 March William Luckin slipped her mooring with Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell in command . |
| 8 | RAF Brize Norton says there 's no choice . |
| 9 | It is her garden that now absorbs much of C.Z. 's time and it was a logical step for Bowles and photographer Pamela Hanson to use it as a setting for their fashion story ( p 162 ) , highlighting some of the key ideas for the season . |
| 10 | Money Oofy Prosser settles his debts |
| 11 | Police committee Chairman Colin Hay said he does n't expect the new man to come up with instant solutions to the problem of rising crime : |
| 12 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 13 | Former racing driver Stirling Moss said he was absolutely staggered , adding : ‘ I saw him not too long ago and he was exceptionally fit . |
| 14 | BACK from a cricket tour of the West Indies , Darlington photographer Ian Wright finds himself almost overtaken by letters from gizza job Barbadians . |
| 15 | This half-sister to Dante winner Alnasr Alwasheek showed plenty of promise behind Areciba in a warmly-contested Newbury maiden race last month . |
| 16 | And last night top U.S. military commander General Colin Powell said he expected Western jets to be enforcing the zone within two weeks . |
| 17 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 18 | Photographer Melanie Cox makes her living from art portraiture . |
| 19 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |
| 20 | It is known that the Lombard King Alboin brought his army and then his people on to the plain in 568 , and that they met with little resistance as the Goths had almost vacated the area by that time . |
| 21 | Still , it is early days and there are already whispers of impressive cross-channel interest although clerk of the course William Fullerton insists he is not , as yet , in a position to make any announcements . |
| 22 | Hotel marketing consortium MinOtels UK chairman Jon Redfern said his 200 members were virtually unaware of the changes . |
| 23 | Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke said it would be difficult to prove a sufferer , possibly made irrational by the knowledge they would die , infected another person through sex on purpose . |
| 24 | By contrast Burroughs Wellcome sent me a generous supply of6-MP along with some easy-to-follow directions for its administration . |
| 25 | Ombudsman William Reid made his criticism after dealing with a complaint from one of the 121 farmers who will now get extra compensation . |
| 26 | NAM Chairman Roger Bryan felt it was very important to remember every effort made at fund-raising , while at the time the work might have seemed far removed from aviation preservation , this work was incremental in the success of the overall project . |
| 27 | DRUNK driver Gary McKitten had his collar felt by an angry pet shop boss . |
| 28 | Labour committee chairman Jim Skinner said he would be concerned by any further erosion of rail services . |
| 29 | Peggy van Praagh told me that , even so early , de Valois had said to her ‘ I think he 'll make a choreographer ’ , but she was already trying out several other aspirants , so could not give him immediate chances . |
| 30 | With unexpected tenderness Sven Hjerson told her what had happened . |