Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When confronted more directly with homophobic reactions , Minton retaliated with spirit : once at the Chelsea Arts Club he sent back a note , passed along the bar , rudely objecting to the sailor he had in tow , with the remark : ‘ You would n't mind if it was an Admiral . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In one reminiscence session somebody brought in an old-fashioned Victorian commode , which looked like a chair , and the group was asked what it was . |
| 3 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 4 | Paul Gascoigne 's career and his hugely expensive transfer to Lazio had been in doubt ever since his disastrous knee injury in last year 's FA Cup Final , but the night club fracas which brought about a further fracture made a successful recovery look still less likely . |
| 5 | Reveals an insider : ‘ The series is based around a failed football star who sets up a celebrity limo service . |
| 6 | He went by jeep and on his way back to Brigade H.Q he ran over a German mine and was killed . ’ |
| 7 | This makes it difficult to place students in ‘ responsible line management roles which make up a valuable part of their training as chartered accountants in business ’ . |
| 8 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 9 | This signal is amplified many times and used to drive a pen recorder which traces out a wave form plotting voltage against time . |
| 10 | One possibility is that in excluding nursing home residents we left out an especially vulnerable group of elderly people who were more likely to die than their counterparts in the community . |
| 11 | The robot will roam nuclear-weapons facilities , scouring concrete surfaces with a gadget like a sand blaster which shoots out a pressurised stream of dry-ice pellets . |
| 12 | Most Windows and Windows applications menus have a Help option which calls up an information screen relevant to the task in hand . |
| 13 | The government has published a discussion document on climate change which sets out a series of options on how emissions of greenhouse gases can be reduced . |
| 14 | Consultant pathologist Dr Stephen Dundas who carried out a post mortem said Mr Ryder had died as a result of overdosing on both tablets and alcohol . |
| 15 | Karen Young 's glamorous looks would make her a role model for actress Helen Mirren who tracked down a serial killer in the hit series . |
| 16 | For the remaining 47% he turned to the Norwegian shipping magnate Fred Olsen who coughed up a £12 million stake in the yards . |
| 17 | The battle to rid the canal of mink is being organised by Mow Cop AC secretary Phil Carr who put out an appear for other clubs with a mink problem to contact him . |
| 18 | So before Forte Travelodge installed a new booking system it set up a trial in a mock-up of its operations centre . |
| 19 | Anarchy on a smaller scale is provided by photographer Kurt Buchwald who set up a ‘ Photography Forbidden ’ sign in front of innocuous subjects and then took photographs to see what happened . |
| 20 | Piece of coal as long as that , a foot wide and foot , like a foot square we pulled off a |
| 21 | By means of the Ulster Canal it carries on a communication between Belfast and Enniskillen , and with Newry ( and the sea ) by the Newry Navigation . |
| 22 | AN animal rights fanatic who carried out a bomb attack on a crowded McDonald 's was jailed for 15 months yesterday . |
| 23 | At the meat fridge I picked up a pack of ground beef . |
| 24 | Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards . |
| 25 | The campaigners all live within sight of Silverhill Colliery which shut down a year ago . |
| 26 | In Porchester Terrace they picked up a blue Mark 1 Zephyr and drove sedately home to Lancaster Road . |
| 27 | Between their house and ours were the double doors of the cellar , having a three inch steel bar which fitted over a staple and was fastened by an enormous padlock . |
| 28 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 29 | At a hospital news conference he read out a speech of thanks . |
| 30 | At a hospital news conference he read out a speech of thanks . |