Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made from a proms concert ‘ sometime in the '70s ’ — featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink ( just the usual orchestral Suite ) . |
| 2 | I went to a cattle market in |
| 3 | But the youngsters were found dead in their beds after she walked into a police station at the weekend . |
| 4 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 5 | A Nairobi lawyer , Martha Njoka , claimed that she was assaulted by a special branch superintendent when she went to a police station to trace Imanyara . |
| 6 | She appeared at a police press conference in Derby with the sergeant 's mother , Mrs Joyce Newman , 58 , after the Irish National Liberation Army admitted responsibility for the murder . |
| 7 | Vinod Kambli ( aged 18 ) and Sachin Tendulkar ( 17 ) appear destined for full Test careers , although yesterday 's partnership of nought was 644 runs fewer than the one they shared in a schools game two years ago . |
| 8 | In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station . |
| 9 | Well they went to a boys school you see afterwards . |
| 10 | A former cabinet minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , was charged with evading ¥1.7 billion ( $12.6m ) of taxes on some ¥2.8 billion of ill-gotten gains that he made in a shares racket . |
| 11 | The Sierra Cosworth was chased along the A5 before it crashed into a police roadblock near Milton Keynes . |
| 12 | He drove to a Customs depot where it was sealed by Spanish Customs officers . |
| 13 | It consisted of a Personnel Manager , two Personnel Officers , a Training Officer and three clerical staff . |
| 14 | Even after the £383m the bank got from selling a 14.9% stake in itself to the Hongkong Bank and the £1.1 billion it raised from a rights issue and the sale of its Scottish and Irish banks , Midland still struggles to keep its third-world debt provisions up to the level of its rivals . |
| 15 | Mr Montignac says he discovered his ‘ method ’ while lunching in fancy European restaurants when he worked for a drugs company . |
| 16 | He worked as a sports salesman , a bingo hall caller and a fruit seller before joining the Royal Navy . |
| 17 | Because of a longstanding health condition , her father was not considered physically suitable for the armed forces and so he worked in a munitions factory not too far from their home . |
| 18 | He collapsed in a police cell and died later in hospital . |
| 19 | The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court . |
| 20 | Maxwell only discovered his cards were missing after he went into a police station to see detectives . |
| 21 | Maxwell only discovered his cards were missing after he went into a police station to see detectives . |
| 22 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 23 | The second time , he collided with a police wagon . |
| 24 | Botica 's scintillating running earned him the Man of the Match Award and he ended with a points haul of 18 with seven goals and a try when he swooped and fly-kicked on a wayward Northern pass which had gone to ground 40 yards out . |