Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being based at El Paso , Texas , in 1989 the aircraft was flown to the Liberal Air Museum in Kansas where it became a part of the Museum 's static display on a loan basis . |
| 2 | If the cricket analogy is appropriate , then Saunders was hit for six during much of his ill-fated spell at Anfield where he became a scapegoat for the club 's ills . |
| 3 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 4 | The 27-hole overnight leader was Brian Davis ( East Herts ) who won the Hertfordshire boys title at Nevill last Friday when he recorded a course record 65 . |
| 5 | Two of them , disguised as Spanish workers , walked the seventeen kilometres to Parma where they caught a train to Milan , and were arrested on the way . |
| 6 | Yes it was on the radio this morning about that erm it is in England somewhere I think a woman 's given birth to a fifteen pound some ounces kid . |
| 7 | ‘ She had n't closed the bedroom door and when she opened the window to pass Christopher out it created a backdraught that sucked the fire right through the bedroom . ’ |
| 8 | Durham solicitor David Keating has just returned from Albania where he led a delegation of lawyers to help establish the legal profession there . |
| 9 | On 14 February , Fleischmann had visited Harwell laboratory in England where he has a consultancy . |
| 10 | Gloucestershire county councillors had been fearing the worst since February when they approved a budget almost ten million pounds more than the Government target . |
| 11 | Her hopes were raised in January when she received a letter from Hartlepool General Hospital offering the chance of an operation at Middlesbrough General within a fortnight . |
| 12 | Mr Hamilton met the three widows — Mrs Lennox , Mrs Elizabeth Weeks and Mrs Lyn Hicks — at the MoD in January when he indicated a compromise could be reached . |
| 13 | Proud dad Derek Corkindale , 25 , was holding newborn Daniel two days after his birth last December when he realised a name tag on Daniel 's leg bore the name of another baby in the ward . |
| 14 | Myers willingly admits to being a media junkie : ‘ We had a lot of teacher strikes in Canada so we had a lot of time to hang out , more time than sense . |
| 15 | Some police make quite a tidy income ringing up their contacts at the bottom end of Fleet Street whenever they have a customer of public interest . |
| 16 | It started on a Friday night in November when I felt a bit odd , so I took a paracetamol and went to bed with a hot-water bottle . |
| 17 | After leaving Paris where he had attended the CSCE conference on Nov. 19-21 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , Bush had himself visited the Middle East from Nov. 21 , spending the following day ( the US Thanksgiving Day ) with US troops in Saudi Arabia , meeting King Fahd there and Egypt 's President Mubarak in Cairo , and returning via Geneva where he had a meeting on Nov. 23 with President Assad of Syria . |
| 18 | Roebuck immediately claimed a place in the NSW team and marched into the Australian team making his Test debut against Wales at Ballymore where he scored a debut try in the Wallabies ' record slaughter . |
| 19 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 20 | In the twilit quietness voices carried , and Jerome was excited , and Robert never one to subdue a voice he was fond of hearing . |
| 21 | We settled in Canada as a family , my mum , dad , sister , brother , grandad , nan , and I. There we bought a motel near the sea and stayed for nine years . |
| 22 | He celebrated by embarking on a fishing trip to the Bahamas where he reinjured a knee and was subjected to micro-surgery to remove a floating hunk of cartilage . |
| 23 | In 1992 the two countries had agreed to exchange Bank of China and Korean Exchange Bank officials and , in April , Lee Sang Ock had become the highest-ranking South Korean to visit China when he attended a meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Beijing . |
| 24 | We crossed over the river into Sweden near the Baltic coast at Haparanda ( and suffered the embarrassment of having to be push started to get off the ferry ) and drove on to Lulea where we called a halt because I had promised to say hello to a friend of a friend who lived there . |
| 25 | On Aug. 1 Bush visited Kiev where he addressed a session of the Ukrainian parliament . |
| 26 | In March of that year he sailed back to Ontario where he bought a farm , the land of which is now part of the city of Brantford . |
| 27 | and er through to Alexandria where we spent a week , then by train from Alexandria to Cairo . |
| 28 | When Ross and Minton set off in August 1947 , stopping first in Paris where they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture , Louis Joxe , they did not know each other well . |
| 29 | I can recall an incident early one September when I had a net carried away on to a hedge . |
| 30 | He first met Chapman when he played a game for Leeds City in 1917 . |