Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The try came after good work by Gordon Lawrie and then a blindside move featuring Mike Allingham and Andy McRobbie which allowed Russell Adam to go over at the corner . |
| 2 | DAVIE PROVAN , in the past a favourite at Parkhead and now a radio summariser , wore the expression currently described as ‘ gobsmacked ’ when he entered the press lounge at half time . |
| 3 | There used to be a polled breed in southern Devon known as the Devon Natts and also a Somerset Poll . |
| 4 | Georges Duhamel , a doctor at Verdun and later a member of the Academy , vividly describes the chaos in one of these primitive charnel houses in ‘ La Vic des Martyrs . ’ |
| 5 | Mr O'Malley , of the Parents ' Association , having arrived to see what they had got for their money , stood with the rest of the interested parties , Mr Sylvester and Mrs Bean and Mr and Mrs Singh and quite a lot of the Sports Committee . |
| 6 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 7 | If they throw me in prison , at least I know that with Famagusta and maybe a rodent or two from my cell , I can have a meal fit for a Borgia . ’ |
| 8 | Meanwhile Kubota Corp — majority shareholder in Stardent and now a 30% stakeholder in AVS Inc — is left with Stardent 's MIPS R3000-based Titan series of high-end graphics workstations . |
| 9 | Situated close to Harrods and just a few doors along Beauchamp Place from Kanga , the dress shop owned by Prince Charles 's confidante Lady Tryon , San Lorenzo has been at the centre of much that has happened around Diana this year . |
| 10 | Q. I have a selection of fancy goldfish which includes Fantails , Lionheads , Orandas and also a pair of Blue Chinese Carp . |
| 11 | The Convention was a treaty entered into by the United States and so a part of federal law pre-empting State rules . |
| 12 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 13 | Calgary , took a train over the Rockies to Vancouver and then a cruise ship up to Alaska and , and back via Vancouver and you saw the erm ice floes er dropping off and er er seals and that , dolphins and that and it looked pretty good . |
| 14 | Bishop Trelawney 's home , Trelawne , is still standing in the parish , as is the ancient manor of Tregarrick , one time home of the Winslades and now a farm . |
| 15 | Highlights include staying at the famous Hôtel du Lac at Vevey , visiting the Ecole Hôteliere in Lausanne with lunch at the Nestlé headquarters , tours of the Alimentarium Food Museum and the Centre de Dégustation des vins , a visit to the Nestlé chocolate factory at Broc and also a cheese factory at Gruyères . |
| 16 | Perhaps because of the influence of Juliete De Valero Wills , now divorced from Andy but still a company director , Go ! |
| 17 | ‘ Naturally I am slightly sad , mainly for Andrew Adams but also a little for myself . ’ |
| 18 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 19 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 20 | : I was playing football on the playing field at HMS Ganges when suddenly a long bugle call playing the Still sounded from the tannoy system . |
| 21 | Basil gave Jan one of his Art Nouveau ‘ business ’ cards , dismissing Queen Cherry Morello as just a little sideline . |
| 22 | How wonderful it must be to be a great artist like Mr Beaumont or a musician like Mr Fergus or even a teacher like half the church . |
| 23 | Michelle is obviously a sunlust person in that respect and depending on whether she goes to a main package resort in Spain or perhaps a beach in India , she can either be a psychocentric sunlust person or an alocentric sunlust person . |
| 24 | We have been paying them in England since 21 February and virtually a third of claims have been met . |
| 25 | David Goodman , son of Monty and also a director , gave this account in an interview ( conducted by the staff of Canning Town Community Development Project ) in January 1975 . |
| 26 | It did not reflect particular animus over Korea but more a feeling of frustration at the setbacks encountered by American policy in the Far East in the previous two years . |
| 27 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 28 | Some Social Democrats analysed Russia as partly an Asiatic mode of production , a position denounced by Lenin , who insisted on the fully capitalist character of the Russian economy and hence its ripeness for socialist agitation . |
| 29 | Disappointment for Oxford , joy for Swindon and perhaps a few more converts to Rugby League . |
| 30 | Oh they came up with their servants all servants up from the south by train to Inverness and then a charabanc or vehicle of such that was in it then because it was only metal roads we had then . |