Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a sports " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew , 38 , a buyer for a sports equipment company , said they were very surprised when they learned they had been entered . |
| 2 | They show their immaturity as soon as they get behind the wheel of a sports car . |
| 3 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
| 4 | In December 1991 Moore married an air stewardess , Stephanie Parlane-Moore , but there was bad news with the collapse of a sports business . |
| 5 | Attention was given to planning , diet , fitness and mental attitude , the latter under the guidance of a sports psychologist . |
| 6 | You probably succeeded in realizing that this is an extract from a sports report designed to inform people familiar with the sport about the progress of a match , and that the whereabouts of sender and receiver are not of particular importance . |
| 7 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 8 | Charles made a cursory check for blood-stained fingerprints , the thread of a sports jacket made from tweed only available in a small tailor 's shop in Aberdeen , the scratch marks of an artificial hand or the faint but unmistakable aroma of orange blossom . |
| 9 | There was neither a window nor a door open : customers and staff sweated visibly and there was the smell of a sports changing-room . |
| 10 | Initially rebuffed by NBC in Chicago , Reagan found work as a sports announcer for a small radio station in Davenport , Iowa . |
| 11 | He had to be patient , but his wish finally came true last year , when at the age of 40 , his work as a sports photographer brought him face-to-face with the biggest desert of them all — the awe-inspiring Sahara . |
| 12 | The Economist dismissed the parallel , saying that differences between companies are greater than those between humans , and that a better analogy for the management thinker is the coach of a sports team , who deploys a body of knowledge and skills in changing circumstances ‘ as rival teams learn to outwit each other ’ . |
| 13 | After considerable reflection , a discussion of the match with a wide circle of friends , a session with a sports psychiatrist , and two calls to the Samaritans , I decide that I lost because Martin played much better than I did . |
| 14 | He was an East Ender , near as possible a Cockney , and , with his mother , shopped the markets of Walthamstow and Leytonstone insisting that chips with this and chips with that was a triumphant diet for a sports crazy kid . |
| 15 | He was an East Ender , near as possible a Cockney , and , with his mother , shopped the markets of Walthamstow and Leytonstone insisting that chips with this and chips with that was a triumphant diet for a sports crazy kid . |
| 16 | For larger items , a holdall like a sports bag can be useful . |
| 17 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 18 | Therefore the dojo is treated with great reverence and respect , whether it is a room within a sports complex or simply a disused garage . |
| 19 | If this is thought too tame , a lively and amusing party can be held at home or in a room at a sports club along the lines of a fancy dress party , again with humorous speeches . |
| 20 | The name of a sports promoter disappeared from the list , and another candidate was downgraded from a peerage to a knighthood . |
| 21 | This event also marked the formal opening of a sports and culture week for primary school pupils , as well as an annual town trade exhibition in which LASMO took part . |
| 22 | Until now , Livingston has consistently protested total innocence of how he could have provided a positive sample in a Sports Council test just before the Games . |
| 23 | President José Eduardo dos Santos joined an estimated 40,000 people who took part in an ecumenical thanksgiving Mass in a sports stadium in the capital , Luanda , on June 2 , marking the end of 16 years of civil war . |
| 24 | Richard , 32 , deputy manager of a sports centre , returned home to Leeds , while Alison rented an apartment near the hospital . |
| 25 | Richard , 32 , deputy manager of a sports centre , returned home to Leeds . |
| 26 | Several thousand gun-carrying Afrikaner farmers gathered to listen to Mr Viljoen last week in a sports stadium in Potchefstroom ; they called for war if militant blacks did not stop killing white farmers . |
| 27 | A GUNMAN screamed for mercy after murdering a teenager in a sports shop , a court heard yesterday . |
| 28 | One night , at the age of twenty-six , she was the victim of an appalling accident , when she was passenger in a sports car which ran out of control and somersaulted , landing upside down . |
| 29 | i watched the game at a sports pub here in Trondheim with lots of other Leeds-fans and i think a saw an ipswich shirt or two also ; - ) — in fact the Scandinavian Whites is the third largest supporter club in Scand. — after Scum and Liverpool . |
| 30 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |