Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that 's the Sue I once bought a drink for — out of pity — in a certain low-rent wine bar she frequents ( Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women hogging the tables ) , then I do n't think she 's telling the full story . |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH LIVING IN WALLINGTON SHE ALREADY HAD A SENSE OF HER ROOTS IN WALES . |
| 3 | ‘ Instead of a rate for carrying oil throughout to Bedale we just got a rate for bringing it to Middlesbrough for trans-shipment to road , which was illogical to me . |
| 4 | John Cole who also wrote a memoir of Hester Mulso Chapone , included Leapor in his Popular Biography of Northamptonshire ( 1839 ) , along with Chapone , Mark Akenside , and William Lisle Bowles . |
| 5 | The shop was owned by Mr. Sewell who also ran a furniture store , further up the street at No. 29 . |
| 6 | ‘ When goalkeepers come to England they often have a problem with the physical side of the game and dealing with the vast number of crosses , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 7 | In a hectic 64th minute spell Collins headed the ball back to midfielder Martin Murray who completely fluffed a header and Gardiner raced in only to blast the ball over . |
| 8 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 9 | K. With the growth of trade and work in factories , more and more people have been attracted to cities like Bristol which now has a population of 388 000 . |
| 10 | The year 's calendar will be : 12 January to 20 February , ‘ The Lake Isle of Innisfree ’ , a body of work produced by William Tillyer , Maggi Hambling , Maurice Cockrell and Wendy Connelly who all spent a week painting in County Sligo ; 23 February to 1 April , ‘ Ivon Hitchens centenary exhibition ’ , commemorating the centenary year of the artist 's birth ; April 5 to 1 May , ‘ Wendy Connelly ’ , the artist 's first one-person show since graduating from St Martin 's in 1991 ; 5 May to 5 June , ‘ William Tillyer ’ , oils and watercolours from the Yorkshire-based artist ; 8 June to 4 September ‘ British Landscape painting 1750–1993 ’ , from Richard Wilson and Gainsborough to Constable , Palmer , Spencer and Lanyon ; 7 September to 2 October , ‘ John Virtue ’ , in collaboration with the Lisson Gallery ; 5 October to 6 November , ‘ Ben Nicholson centenary exhibition ’ , timed to coincide with the Tate exhibition ; 9 November to 4 December ‘ Graham Sutherland ’ , the gallery 's first showing of work by the artist ; 7 December to 30 January , ‘ Maurice Cockrill ’ . |
| 11 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 12 | Tammuz opened his mouth at Roirhak who merely took a sip of coffee . |
| 13 | Also until the 17th , Adrian Piper who also had a room in ‘ Dislocations ’ presents ‘ Decide who you are ’ ( a daunting demand ) at John Weber . |
| 14 | We owe a lot to Tom who still has a fondness for his kites , although he is better known in the 1990s as the creator of the GeoSphere Project , a spectacular image of the Earth produced from over 2000 satellite images . |
| 15 | Also on a Monday we always have a bingo session because it 's very popular with the residents . |
| 16 | Like the Rhine it also marked a boundary for the Romans ; beyond it — unknowable nomads ! |
| 17 | London we passed through , on our way to and from school , but except during the half-term " long leave " from Eton we rarely spent a night there . |
| 18 | I will , says I. I near had a heart attack thinkin' of you down here under his nose ! ’ |
| 19 | On Aug. 5 security forces shot and wounded at least three supporters of Halidi who allegedly disturbed a meeting of government sympathizers in Mutsamudu , Nzwani ( formerly Anjouan ) island . |
| 20 | Today the Campaign is a partnership of 15 national statutory and voluntary organisations with Shell UK who all share a belief in supporting local environmental action . |
| 21 | Once you become a student of the University of Ulster you automatically become a member of the Students ' Union and therefore can participate in , and enjoy the wide range of social , political and sporting activities which the Union organises . |
| 22 | The latter writes that he was a muderris in Bursa who then became a kadi , at which point Molla Fenari went to study under Kara Hoca in Iznik . |
| 23 | While this attitude of hostility to immigrant groups was less severe in west Africa it certainly played a role in Ghana from Nkrumah 's period , and in Nigeria as a result of the ‘ localization ’ decree of 1974 . |
| 24 | The first version comprises a repository based on Portable Common Tools Environment technology from GIE Emeraude , Louveciennes , and the Neutral Information Model , which in turn is based largely on the Exchange repository interfacing technology from Software One Ltd , Marlow , UK It also includes a control integration system based on IBM Corp 's SDE WorkBench/6000 , which is derived from Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench . |
| 25 | A. T. I once did a month on the canal bank , looking after Tate and Lyle 's coal that was brought in when there was a strike on . |
| 26 | I sometimes , this is what I said Marion I just feel a letter does n't pressurise them . |
| 27 | This is the great hall which is which is although it looks finished is actually by no means finished , I was just explaining to Mike we still need a go there , we still need a table there , we need all the windows to be done and we need three thousand pounds for that window . |
| 28 | Mark Gill missed an early flick for Stockton who immediately went a goal down as Billingham counter attacked and took the lead through Tim Johnson . |
| 29 | In the second half , the play was very even erm Barry Cooper away on the left , he slipped the ball to Jason Allen who scored number three , Leach had to save a high shot from Nigel Chambers who then conceded a corner doing so , the nearest as they came to scoring , and looked down just at that stage . |
| 30 | We stood in silence to remember David Pym who rarely missed a Keele Convention and who had organised two of our speakers . |