Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So , to test their intelligence we decided to show each horse a plate of oats , and while it was still watching to place the food inside the ring of the tire with the empty feed bucket on top . |
| 32 | Kelly gave her horse a slap down the shoulder ; it grunted but failed to quicken . |
| 33 | The going will be a bit tough , not because I shall use sophisticated techniques ( I shall not ) , but because I can not avoid producing in fairly quick succession a sequence of ideas which will be new to many of my readers . |
| 34 | ‘ Is violence a trait of yours ? ’ |
| 35 | In December 1988 the plaintiff granted the defendant a tenancy of a dwelling house for six months . |
| 36 | These are defences in the strict sense that they place on the defendant a burden of proving his innocence , on the balance of probabilities . |
| 37 | Section 5(3) affords to the defendant a number of defences relating to lack of fault that are not available on a charge under section 4 . |
| 38 | The first count of the declaration , upon which alone the question arises , stated that , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had bought of the defendant a horse for the sum of £30 , the defendant promised that it was sound and free from vice . |
| 39 | It is not necessary for the plaintiff to owe the defendant a duty of care : Although contributory negligence does not depend on a duty of care , it does depend on foreseeability . |
| 40 | After the theft a number of the Tretyakov 's curators condemned the gallery 's exhibition policy , calling it ‘ unworthy of a prestige gallery ’ , leading the Ministry of Culture to audit the foreign exhibition activities of all Soviet museums . |
| 41 | ‘ It vanished from the boathouse a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 42 | Two shots into the snow a metre to the right of his legs , tiny puffs in the snow . |
| 43 | through a snow a couple of weeks ago |
| 44 | She had seen her general practitioner a week after the separation and he had prescribed a tranquillizer . |
| 45 | Expert police questioning would get enough out of her to cost Bonanza a lot of profits , if it did n't put him out of business altogether . |
| 46 | In the auction a copy of her official published report compiled with Wiegand and accompanied by two letters to her mother , Mrs S T Lethbridge , sold for £650 , against an estimate of £100–150 . |
| 47 | There was as a result a shortage of marriageable young men among the lower Patels . |
| 48 | Twenty-two years of war had honed that skill to near perfection , and as a result a mother in France would soon be weeping . |
| 49 | As a result a form of class and , most notably , racial job reservation grew up in railway employment . |
| 50 | For instance , if the surveyor failed to carry out his inspection and to present his report within the agreed time and as a result a house at a bargain price was lost , then a claim could properly be made for compensation . |
| 51 | Mr Mitterrand called the result a vote for ‘ youth and opportunity . ’ |
| 52 | The surprise is a thing called Distributed Access Control Manager ( DACM ) , a generic DCE ACL security manager meant to relieve users of having construct a defence of their own out of what DCE presents them with . |
| 53 | Sometimes it is awkward because with all the excitement you tend to go to the lavatory a number of times before the race , which leads to difficulty later on . |
| 54 | In our movie a brute of a German called Otto is killed ( sort of accidentally ) and ends up in two suitcases . |
| 55 | A sheepcote a shelter for sheep . |
| 56 | Was truancy a symptom of wider emotional problems , or were the schools failing to provide education appropriate to these young people 's needs and interests ? |
| 57 | Since industrial anarchy was nothing other than the other side of the coin of the rapidly rising crime levels , both would be defeated by tough measures which would restore to the citizen a feeling of security and freedom . |
| 58 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 59 | Intrigued , I wrote to the US Navy Department and received in reply a copy of Ensign Smith 's report on the operation . |
| 60 | To his surprise he received in reply a note from her mother . |