Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played soccer for Middlesbrough in the immediate post-war years and , in 1950 , moved to Portsmouth where he played professionally until 1958 , after which he drifted away from the club never to contact Portsmouth again ( W. J. B. Davis , Portsmouth FC Secretary , personal communication , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
| 3 | The early coaches went via Lewes but a new turnpike through Cuckfield in the later 1770s speeded up the journey considerably and the trip was down to six hours by 1820 . |
| 4 | Anne came back with cigarettes and chocolate and magazines and said goodbye to Terry , then she said she would wait for Sarah at the entrance and left them together . |
| 5 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
| 6 | Pablo Riveroll of Baring Securities in Mexico City says the investment could be hugely profitable for Televisa in the long term , but notes that it will bring the firm no net profit until 1996 . |
| 7 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 8 | According to Air Vice Marshall Peter Howard , who is in charge of selecting the astronaut , the Soviets can choose four ‘ finalists ’ but the British then decide on the two people who will leave for Moscow at the beginning of December . |
| 9 | Kevin Sheedy is the only other member of the Newcastle team with experience of third-class English League football ; he played for Hereford as a 17-year-old before joining Liverpool . |
| 10 | Martyn Grimley , another Great Britain player , will be appearing for Brooklands in the Second Division . |
| 11 | We cycled down through Vigo to the port , where we jostled with the locals to get the bikes aboard a ferry across the Ria de Vigo to Cangas on the Peninsula de Morazo , before cycling to the little sleepy fishing village of Bueu , which was quiet and unspoilt . |
| 12 | No , I 'm going to fill in for Jim on the Canal project . ’ |
| 13 | Coming up shortly is a launch for Vauxhall of the eagerly awaited Corsa . |
| 14 | ‘ Hearing about Clydebank on the radio , ’ replied Fireman Bill , blowing out a cloud of smoke that would have done credit to the Queen Mary . |
| 15 | When addressing the problem of Germany 's pre-eminent economic power , he either just says it is good for Europe or he says , ‘ I think our neighbours should overcome the tendency to think in terms of nation-states ’ , while the same thought is expressed by one academic : ‘ in many ways , it no longer makes sense to talk about Germany as a distinct national unit ’ . |
| 16 | The news that ‘ for the time being ’ they can only go to or through Czechoslovakia with a visa , left East Germans stunned . |
| 17 | For Plato in a marvellous metaphor ( Republic 488 ) Demos was a huge , deaf old sea-captain , drugged and overpowered by ignorant riff-raff who take over the wheel themselves — true , except for the word ‘ ignorant ’ . |
| 18 | There is a famous story of Nilsson arriving at a rehearsal of his Metropolitan Ring as Brünnhilde with a miner 's lamp on her head : the conductor was well spotlit , but no one could see what was happening on stage . |
| 19 | The name Grisedale , meaning ‘ the valley of the pigs ’ is consistently spelt wrongly as Grisdale by the Ordnance Survey . |
| 20 | The Director is also Commissioner for Mines , and vice-chairman and national representative for Vanuatu in the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission ( SOPAC ) . |
| 21 | HSC , a joint venture between DSM of the Netherlands and Tosoh of Japan , plans to spend $60m ( £33m ) to quadruple its present aspartame capacity to 2000 t pa by the end of 1993 in an attempt to capture a larger percentage of the fast growing aspartame market . |
| 22 | Levin makes a special case for Debord as a film-maker whose aim was to contribute to the ultimate destruction of cinema as a spectacularist medium . |
| 23 | Talks continued during March between the government and trade unions , against a background of escalating protests . |
| 24 | Negotiations during March with a delegation led by the deputy commander of Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) armed forces , Col.-Gen . |
| 25 | More than 70 people died during March in a fresh wave of violence in parts of Punjab . |
| 26 | He went for Ward in a crouching run , and Ward just stood there , as though transfixed . |
| 27 | The US Congress had since early 1990 withheld $84,000,000 of aid for Panama pending the signing of an agreement . |
| 28 | TWO fine solo goals from Colin Dobie secured a point for Marlborough in a keenly contested 2-2 draw with Derby in the Tuebrook Junior League Under 10s . |
| 29 | The old lads had hoped to warm up for Hull with a friendly against Cleveland police the previous week , but most of the constabulary failed to turn up . |
| 30 | Hunt became a national motor racing hero in 1976 when he lifted the world formula one championship driving for McLaren at the age of 28 . |