Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [noun prp] at the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The unemployed electrician had been living with girlfriend Andrea McCardle at the flat in Lee Park Drive , Belle Vale , for two years . |
| 6 | Under attack — actress Liz Kennedy at the moment the device exploded in her face . |
| 7 | The FA of Wales will present a special long service award to Llanidloes Town president Dick Thomas at the clubhouse on Friday night . |
| 8 | SPAIN 'S Carlos Sainz overcame a broken gearbox to win the 4,338-km Kenya Safari rally yesterday and move level with Finnish rival Juha Kankkunen at the top of the drivers ' championship . |
| 9 | THE untitled Australian Ben Martin continues to lead England 's grandmaster Tony Miles at the Netway Masters in Auckland , New Zealand . |
| 10 | He in turn contacted Searle 's agent Rachel Calder at the Tessa Sayle agency ( the lengths we will go to satisfy a reader 's enquiry ) , who confirms that Searle indeed often rewrites his captions , ‘ to keep them up to date ’ . |
| 11 | Gournia ( Figure 18 ) was excavated by the pioneer Minoan archaeologist Harriet Boyd at the turn of the century and the entire plan of the town stands completely exposed . |
| 12 | But , as BA president John Hitchin at the a.g.m. the following morning declared himself ‘ gobsmacked by Roy Davey 's appalling statement of policy at HarperCollins ’ , it would appear that he did not succeed . |
| 13 | BOBBY GOULD has no choice but to put striker Mick Quinn at the top of his Christmas list . |
| 14 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 15 | Israel 's Foreign Minister David Levi held talks with his Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze at the UN in New York on Sept. 30 . |
| 16 | The boob was spotted by security expert Barry Hyland at the show in Peterborough , Cambs . |
| 17 | Shropshire did have the services of the former Worcestershire seam bowler Paul Pridgeon at the start of the season , but a breakdown in mutual respect ended that relationship . |
| 18 | The first such publication is a facsimile of the ‘ Mira Calligraphiae monumenta ’ , a writing manual with calligraphy by Georg Bocskay , imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I Hapsburg , written in 1561–62 and illuminated by the celebrated Flemish artist and miniaturist Joris Hoefnagel at the behest of the Emperor Rudolf II around thirty years later . |
| 19 | On the back of Rousselet 's letter he adds : ‘ I ask you please to give my regards to my sisters , to M. Colin , and to M. Louis Hotteterre at the Opera and to M. Louis Hotteterre at the Opera , my godfather , and to all my friends . ’ |
| 20 | On the back of Rousselet 's letter he adds : ‘ I ask you please to give my regards to my sisters , to M. Colin , and to M. Louis Hotteterre at the Opera and to M. Louis Hotteterre at the Opera , my godfather , and to all my friends . ’ |
| 21 | Jack Charlton 's team play Albania at the end of May , then leave the next day for a three-match tour of the States . |
| 22 | Tomorrow Town play Millwall at the County Ground … on the big game scale this one rates at 10 out of 10 … down at the Den swindon lost 2-1 … |
| 23 | Shaw was facing the prospect of having to retire from football , after he suffered a serious cruciate injury in only his second game for Conference side Runcorn at the beginning of last season . |
| 24 | Shaw was facing the prospect of having to retire from football , after he suffered a serious cruciate injury in only his second game for Conference side Runcorn at the beginning of last season . |
| 25 | Our Aberdeen office , which recently celebrated ten years offshore , has Divisional Director Lindsay Tocher at the helm . |
| 26 | Harvill publisher Christopher MacLehose left , the Angelo Dundee of British publishing , is pictured with his author Pete Dexter at the launch last week by Harvill and Flamingo of the paperback edition of Dexter 's novel Brotherly Love . |
| 27 | On Oct. 11 Svein Urdal resigned as chief of intelligence after it was revealed that 10 out of some 100 Palestinian asylum seekers who arrived in Norway in late 1990 and early 1991 had been interviewed by the Israeli security service Mossad at the request of Norwegian police . |
| 28 | The success of scientific theories , particularly Newton 's theory of gravity , led the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace at the beginning of the nineteenth century to argue that the universe was completely deterministic . |
| 29 | ‘ For the past five years we have been working hard to turn the London International Book Fair into a major event in the publishing calendar , rather than just another exhibition , and I think this year we managed to achieve that aim , ’ reflected LIBF director Brian Bradford at the end of the 22nd fair . |
| 30 | Club commitments will rule Kernaghan out of a possible call-up when an American team visit Dublin at the end of April . |