Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] and [verb] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken Tyrell , head of Tyrell Racing Organisation , forms a Members ' Action Group and calls a June EGM . |
| 2 | It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann , only to wonder why it seems so frustrated with its existence . |
| 3 | The Centre was originally established in 1972 as an SSRC research unit and became a DRC in 1985 . |
| 4 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 5 | Clinton had risen from impoverished childhood in Hope , Arkansas , to work his way through Georgetown University and hold a Rhodes scholarship ; he became the nation 's youngest sitting governor at 32 in 1979 . |
| 6 | In July he was in a nursing home where Rupert Hart-Davis found him reading a detective story and studying a Penguin book of crossword puzzles — he was " in excellent spirits but his breathing was bad " . |
| 7 | The twin events in Sudbury follow earlier appointments in Bury St Edmunds where the Princess opens the St Nicholas Hospice and visits a St Matthew Society conference . |
| 8 | The London conference decisions of June 1948 to elect a Constituent Assembly and devise a West German constitution provoked a sharp Soviet protest , in the form of the Berlin blockade . |
| 9 | You left the cinema your hand in your pocket clutching a non-existent ‘ rod ’ , you went rat a tat tat Chicago piano machine gun style and did a James Cagney hoodlum staggering along the pavement with your hands to your chest until you collapsed into a doorway mown down by gangsters ' bullets crying for Pat O'Brien or Joan Blondell to take the message to ma . |