Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Enniskillen reverie came to an end as we moved out of that city at last , and continued southward beside the great lough . |
| 2 | As Jane Feuer points out , camp involves a kind of sensibility in which ‘ blank mimicry and a critical edge may coexist ’ , and thereby resembles that form of postmodern parody which Linda Hutcheon defines as a ‘ repetition with critical distance that allows ironic signalling of difference at the very heart of similarity ’ . |
| 3 | It is a tale of simple kindness which Frankie Howerd offered to a lonely teenage boy during one short summer . |
| 4 | They concern data which were not published in the original paper , but which Dr Imanishi-Kari gave to an NIH panel in order to support her published claims against Dr O'Toole 's criticisms . |
| 5 | Her Aunt Elizabeth lived in a small house in the depths of the country near Hereford , and as she her self had never in her life been outside of Birmingham , the journey was like visiting a foreign country . |
| 6 | Le Saux then threatened the visitors ' goal with a piercing run which Alan Harper ended with a cynical body check . |
| 7 | The Group brought in a new President at its Miami headquarter to coincide with a massive publicity launch . |
| 8 | Then Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which Mr Mason made at a lunch a few weeks earlier . |
| 9 | The contract , which contains the same strict rules as those governing coverage of Parliament , has been awarded to Barraclough Carey Productions - which Mr Carey founded with a BBC documentary producer , Jenny Barraclough - and Sevenday Productions , whose director , John Underwood , is a former ITN home affairs correspondent . |
| 10 | There is a half sister by this marriage , and a sister by the second marriage , for which Madame Lagerfeld appeared in a tiered red dress , designed by Madeleine Vionnet . |
| 11 | They left their Nissan Bluebird locked in a free car park after refusing to pay the 40p fee at one nearby . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ The Emirates have provided funding for the French to develop a special version of their Leclerc tank equipped with an MTU engine , similar to that used in the Leopard 2 . |
| 13 | To which Mary Deare replied in a low voice , ‘ It is n't that kind of pain , and then cried out with terrible conviction — Wendy , you are wrong about mothers . |
| 14 | OUTCASTS : Monika with baby Jennifer outside the Holy Cross church which Father O'Neill joined as an assistant parish priest Pictures : BRENDAN MONKS |
| 15 | The mass picketing of Orgreave — a tactic used to discourage the British Steel Corporation ( BSC ) from increasing its daily supplies of coke to its Scunthorpe steel works above a quota already agreed with the miners ’ and steel workers ' unions — was initially characterised by good-humoured pushing and shoving on both sides . |
| 16 | The law , which Benjamin Haydon regarded as an enemy , remained hostile to insolvent debtors throughout this time . |
| 17 | Here , as in his and Halliwell 's notorious defacement of library books ( for which they were imprisoned ) , and in Orton 's theory of montage , there is an anticipation of that effect of pastiche which Fredric Jameson identifies as a defining criterion of the post-modern : |
| 18 | The housekeeper pushed Jennifer in the small of her back , and she found herself walking into a panelled room in which Lady Roscarrock sat in an ornately carved oak chair . |
| 19 | Its London frontbenchers work as a team , backed by a campaign committee which was set up under the chairmanship of the shadow Commons leader , Jack Cunningham , after bad local-election results in London a year ago — and which produced the London manifesto . |
| 20 | The minster at Beddingham seems to have lasted from 750 to 880 , but we know little or nothing of it , save its Abbot Plegheard named in a charter of 825 . |
| 21 | Mr Watts , whose RAF brother died in an air crash more than 30 years ago , said : ‘ There were clouds and clouds of thick black smoke and I lost Sheila . |
| 22 | These demons are contrasted with another caricature , that of ‘ right thinking people , ’ whom Lord Taylor sees as a truer measure of what is just . |
| 23 | Grand and messy , too , are the novels , neither dry nor little , of Christina Stead , whom Angela Carter acknowledges as a writer of ‘ sure and unmistakable stature ’ . |
| 24 | That may not bother him because it was in Christchurch that he had his Ireland tour brought to a premature end last year by a punch from Canterbury 's Andy Earl which broke his jaw . |
| 25 | his Sam Browne dangling like a fire-escape . |
| 26 | Sir John Mogg , the 80 year old former deputy supreme allied commander in Europe tried to fight off the robbers who invaded his Watlington home armed with a knife . |
| 27 | ‘ Groups like yours are a bit outside my experience , ’ he confided , ‘ and I need to understand a bit about what Miss Morgan did for a living . |
| 28 | This entailed the maintenance of a large military presence in and around Singapore to combat and deter Indonesian efforts to break up what President Sukarno described as an instrument of neo-imperialism . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman will have seen what President Yeltsin said as a result . |
| 30 | In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . |