Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [noun prp] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been doubled by Oldham , been beaten by Sheffield United and last night went down to a Middlesbrough side which had lost its previous six matches . |
| 2 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 3 | Hope retraced his steps and came up alongside a Mr Crump whose mind had been cleared and relaxed by the stimulating freedom given to his prejudices : his expression was no longer that of the tentative , diffident social and artistic explorer : he was a hard man in his office dealing with a captain whose cargo did not comply with his list of instructions . |
| 4 | She 's sent them up to a London publisher who is actually going to bring them out — Multiculturalism and Pluralism in the New Europe . |
| 5 | As Distillery manager Billy Hamilton said before a clash with the Glens : ‘ I have yet to send my team out against a Glentoran side which did n't have eleven household names in it . ’ |
| 6 | The European Court of Justice has convicted the British government of failing to meet minimum standards for nitrates in drinking water , as set out in an EC directive which came into force in 1980 . |
| 7 | Well they expect everybody to go out on a Saturday night you see . |
| 8 | In the RAF 's first attack on the runway at Port Stanley , carried out by a Vulcan V-bomber which flew from Ascension Island , only one of the 21 bombs dropped hit the runway . |
| 9 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |