Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun prp] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went out of his way to meet foreign visitors from all walks of life — politicians certainly , but also a delegation from a Nobel prizewinners ' congress , a group of doctors connected with the medical movement against nuclear war , the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez , a group of writers including Arthur Miller and James Baldwin who were attending the Issyl-Kum forum in 1986 , and many others . |
| 2 | The myth was probably sparked off by the existence of a St. Thomas ' Lane and Well in the town ( locations now unknown ) , the St. Thomas ' chapel in All Saints ' church , and the Hospital of St. Thomas and St. John ( now Lord Burghley 's Almshouses ) , which apparently had a chapel over the bridge . |
| 3 | All we and they can do is to resist the degeneration of a justified action of international collective security into a United States ' imperial ego-trip , to stop the affair getting further out of hand , and in doing so to prevent the UN , the only available base for world order , from falling into lasting discredit . |
| 4 | She is redoing her A-levels in chemistry , physics and biology in the sixth form of a London girls ' school . |
| 5 | Best stunned the audience at a Belfast footballers ' dinner with his racist outburst in an X-rated speech peppered with four-letter words . |
| 6 | She had a chequered past , and like the star player in a Jackie Collins ' novels , began an affair with the poet Percy Shelley when she was just 15 . |