Example sentences of "[noun prp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers to Samavia a loyalty as warm as Marco 's but deriving partly from hero-worship as he comes to find in Lorestan a father-figure . |
| 2 | Dion a £1m smasher |
| 3 | One night Mr Gorman remembered that he had to visit the box to give Travis a message about the next week 's duty roster . |
| 4 | All she 'd done was to try and help Travis a little at a very bad time in his life , and just look at the aggravation she was getting for her trouble ! |
| 5 | Like Chatterton , Peter Ackroyd is , in the words of his novel about Chatterton a ‘ great Parodist ’ , a ‘ great Plagiarist ’ . |
| 6 | If Costica Dobre was no Lech Walesa , nor was Ceauşescu a fool like Eduard Gierek . |
| 7 | This will give the Cheshires a good deal more protection and pack a much more powerful punch should they be attacked again . |
| 8 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 9 | But the tendency was reversed in the 1986 elections which gave CCOO a clear majority of the votes ( see table 5.4 ) . |
| 10 | Johnson had told Mrs Thrale a little of the four-hundred-year history of Raasay ( or ‘ Raarsa ’ as he calls it ) — and then he divulged that Bonnie Prince Charlie ‘ was hidden in his distress two nights at Raarsa , and the king 's troops burnt the whole country , and killed some of the Cattle ’ . |
| 11 | Owers played his first full game for three months in the derby win over Middlesbrough and then gave boss Malcolm Crosby a welcome cup final headache . |
| 12 | Remember that in Marks and Sparks a couple of months back they were selling borders off and I bought a beautiful aqua one . |
| 13 | Di , was Madge a good dancer ? |
| 14 | Ca n't remember whether I owe Madge a letter or she owes me one . |
| 15 | I 'm afraid Brian Deane was a bit of a liability , he really did nothing all game in the opposition box , apart from straying offside to deny Wetherall a good goal . |
| 16 | They had to meet up with Nellie a great deal as she was supervising the school 's wardrobe . |
| 17 | Four years later , when the Bishopric of Bath and Wells fell vacant , the King rejected all other suggestions and declared , ‘ Who shall have Bath and Wells but that little black fellow who would not give poor Nellie a lodging ? ’ |
| 18 | He took Kirsty again , and handed Shiona a key . |
| 19 | It ended by saying that Mrs Thatcher should apologise for trying to find Mr Clay a job and withdraw her request that he be given one . |
| 20 | In the mid-second century in Phrygia a vehement anti-Gnostic reaction helped to inflame a powerful movement of charismatic prophecy , led by Montanus and two women , Prisca and Maximilla . |
| 21 | I mean see why they call people like Constable , Rembrandt a great artist |
| 22 | Already he was well enough off to pay his army , with 6d [ 2.5p ] a day for the rank and file and 1s 0d [ 5p ] for the gentry , and soon after Prestonpans a ship bringing money , arms and a French ambassador-cum-political-adviser arrived at Montrose , 62 miles [ 99 km ] from Edinburgh , followed by two others carrying six field guns and a number of Irish officers . |
| 23 | Lend Anna Kazan a fiver and you 'll be lucky to see it again . |
| 24 | For the astonishing fact is that Malcolm Allison , soccer 's oldest boss at 65 , has revitalised a Bristol Rovers side that had won only two of 16 games before he took over from the sacked Dennis Rofe a month ago . |
| 25 | He still owed Bert a fish over the bike deal . |
| 26 | Hardening again : ‘ Is n't Jeff a way of getting out ; as well … |
| 27 | In Alphaville a child is unlikely to see its father . |
| 28 | Below : Dry conditions make crossing the peaty wastes of Bleaklow a lot easier ( all photos by Jerry Rawson ) . |
| 29 | It would never get rid of the damned things permanently but at least it would give the Ryans a breathing space . |
| 30 | Major shareholders Pargesa the Swiss investment group owned by Belgians and Canadians Groupe Bruxelles Lambert and Banque Internationale a Luxembourg have already accepted the bid . |