Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was forced to fly to Colombo last month to rescue a New Zealand tour after a Tamil suicide bomber blew himself up just 50 yards from the Kiwis ' team hotel . |
| 2 | A further bomb explosion that evening killed a United States air force sergeant , and in a statement the November 17 group linked this attack with US policy in the Gulf . |
| 3 | During the winter of 1917–18 , in his course on the principles underlying the treatment of injuries to muscles , bones , and joints , ( Sir ) Arthur Keith [ q.v. ] gave a lecture on Thomas at the Royal College of Surgeons , and in 1920 the Liverpool Medical Institution founded a Hugh Owen Thomas memorial lecture . |
| 4 | The £50,000-per-year managing director driving a Mercedes-Benz had to pay £3320 , an increase of £500 . |
| 5 | MPs last night urged a Commons probe into the scandal of Princess Di 's £3,000 whirlpool bath — revealed exclusively in yesterday 's Mirror . |
| 6 | A striking illustration of the difficulty here appeared in July 1989 when the US Supreme Court upheld a Missouri state law restricting women 's abortion rights . |
| 7 | They were married soon after Simon made his Radio One debut hosting a Saturday evening show in May 1986 . |
| 8 | In that same year another reporter described a Los Angeles cinema in which the audience was largely Mexican , Chinese , and Japanese . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , 96 per cent of the coaches in the French first division predicted a Toulouse v Agen final . |