Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] a [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 2 | The 28-year-old champion was booed after taking a points decision over Hitchin 's Danny Porter at the Scottish Exhibition Centre but he said : ‘ They are the mugs , not me . ’ |
| 3 | Four hundred artists represented in the museum 's collection have responded to the idea of producing a greetings image on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper . |
| 4 | You stand nearly three times as much chance of getting a police caution in Kent as you do in South Wales . |
| 5 | A TOP Catholic public school was yesterday accused of hindering a police investigation into a pervert priest . |
| 6 | Terry Roach , 41 , convicted of killing a police officer by running him over in a truck , serving life in the Phillips Correctional Institution , Georgia and Michael Hamilton , aged 40 , convicted of the contract killing of his wife , sentenced to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin . |
| 7 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 8 | The commitment of Vine-Lott and BSL to Glasgow has resulted in his recent election as chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange , the first non-Scot and first non-career stockbroker is a reflection of BSL 's commitment to building a securities industry in Scotland . |
| 9 | Wilkins also pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer in the execution of his duty , and Parratt to obstructing the police . |
| 10 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 11 | The organization carried out a bank robbery in Castellón on July 12 which was thought to have provided it with the means to launch a new offensive , and was held responsible for wounding two Army officers in Madrid on Dec. 13 and Valencia on Dec. 15 , for killing a police officer in Barcelona on Dec. 18 and for killing two Civil Guards in Gijón , northern Spain , on Dec. 28 . |
| 12 | Truman played for time by appointing a brains trust of three to advise him . |
| 13 | Martin Colling , 24 , began with racist remarks to an Asian shopkeeper and ended by attacking a police officer with a coal shovel when he tried to arrest him , Durham Crown Court heard . |