Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRISTOL CITY revealed yesterday that they rejected a £700,000 bid from Brian Clough for Nottingham-born striker Andy Cole at the weekend . |
| 2 | Boro 's woe was complete when Hernandez Patxi saved the final penalty from £750,000 striker Andy Paton in the shoot-out . |
| 3 | The loss of striker Andy Saville for the season with a broken arm has been a tremendous blow and manager Alan Murray is making inquiries to replace him . |
| 4 | This idea was the brainchild of Anna Coombes who , in 1988 , took over as gardener ; her work has been carried on and developed by her successor Linda Roberts since the beginning of 1990 . |
| 5 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 6 | Rotherham United striker John Buckley , 30 , underwent surgery to remove a brain blood clot after the clash with Plymouth defender Gary Poole at the start of Saturday 's Second Division home match . |
| 7 | HOWARD KENDALL pointed an accusing finger at defender Gary Ablett over the two-goal burst that sent Everton home empty-handed . |
| 8 | The bid values CGI at the equivalent of $450m , about 1.2 times last year 's turnover of $367m , and 17.5 times net profit of $26.4m ( CI No 2,119 ) . |
| 9 | FROM THE HORSES MOUTH Lucy Rees on the language of Equus . |
| 10 | The unemployed electrician had been living with girlfriend Andrea McCardle at the flat in Lee Park Drive , Belle Vale , for two years . |
| 11 | In Oviedo an infuriated mob was only prevented from lynching the distinguished poet Meléndez Valdés by the appearance of priests with the exposed host . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Dons boss Joe Kinnear is trying to sign on-loan Millwall defender Alan McLeary before the weekend . |
| 13 | I had read similar claims for ‘ the Peruvian sensibility ’ of the poet Cesar Vallejo on the back of an edition of his first collection , Los Heraldos Negros . |
| 14 | Former policeman Arthur Seale and his wife Irene snatched Exxon president Sidney Reso from the driveway of his New Jersey home in April . |
| 15 | She pipped actress Meryl Streep to the part — although Streep could still take over when the show opens in the US . |
| 16 | Later Fiona Smith , who had beaten her greatest rival Helen Troke in the Commonwealth Cup at Bath last month , did so again in the women 's singles final . |
| 17 | Though they fell far short of the giant-killing exploits of Citizen Ralph Nader in the decade to come , the consumers ' organizations provided a rallying point and the hard evidence to contest the claims of £450 million-worth of advertising a year , roughly the same as was spent on schools . |
| 18 | Palace striker Paul Mortimer last night joined defender Lee Sinnott on the transfer list . |
| 19 | Agent Sam Rollins of the Vice-President 's Special Task Force on Drug Misuse has rented a cabin on the edge of the pond . |
| 20 | Agent Sam Rollins of the Vice-President 's Special Task Force on Drug Misuse is taking his boy duck hunting . |
| 21 | Special Agent Sam Rollins of the Vice-President 's Task Force on Drug Misuse has hit a wrinkle . |
| 22 | Under attack — actress Liz Kennedy at the moment the device exploded in her face . |
| 23 | The unit reports to IBM president Jack Kuehler with the mission to retain as customers those users worldwide that have given up on mainframes altogether and are moving to open systems . |
| 24 | Father-of-two Perkins — killer Norman Bates in the Psycho movies — had admitted that he had experience of gay sex . |
| 25 | But Mansell , still bruised and shaken after his accident on Saturday , had to overcome a poor start , which had resulted in him being passed by team-mate Riccardo Patrese on the opening lap . |
| 26 | The FA of Wales will present a special long service award to Llanidloes Town president Dick Thomas at the clubhouse on Friday night . |
| 27 | DARLINGTON last night named West Hartlepool 's record try scorer Peter Robinson as the coach who will spearhead their drive for higher standards . |
| 28 | Not even a highly-publicised- and subsequently denied-exchange between her and jealous rival Wendy James of the band Transvision Vamp — Wendy : ‘ I do n't know how they vote for that Aussie Bimbo , she sounds like my dog . ’ |
| 29 | FRANK BRUNO has astonishingly leapt ahead of British rival Lennox Lewis in the race to get first crack at the world heavyweight championship . |
| 30 | Take , for example , this record of a personal response to Picasso 's sculpture The Man with a Sheep by the critic Tim Hilton in the catalogue for ‘ Picasso 's Picassos , in 1981 : |