Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] and [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was once the home of the Ranger in Greenwich Park and also a retreat from the City for the statesman , Lord Chesterfield . |
| 2 | Another example of the love theme is the humorous courting by Wemmick directed towards Miss Shiffins and the funny way in which they ( Pip and Wemmick ) arrive for his marriage with Wemmick ‘ accidentally ’ discovering a church and then a pair of gloves , followed by Miss Shiffins and finally a wedding ring . |
| 3 | ‘ Why , a kind of fur , pale grey and very expensive worn mostly by wealthy Edwardian ladies with a bunch of Parma violets and perhaps a toque . ’ |
| 4 | Tony Lewis , the Glamorgan chairman and certainly a person of some sensitivity himself , has gone into print : to soften the arguments and smooth the flow of the ageless Taff . |
| 5 | There used to be a polled breed in southern Devon known as the Devon Natts and also a Somerset Poll . |
| 6 | The Convention was a treaty entered into by the United States and so a part of federal law pre-empting State rules . |
| 7 | Mr O'Malley , of the Parents ' Association , having arrived to see what they had got for their money , stood with the rest of the interested parties , Mr Sylvester and Mrs Bean and Mr and Mrs Singh and quite a lot of the Sports Committee . |
| 8 | The try came after good work by Gordon Lawrie and then a blindside move featuring Mike Allingham and Andy McRobbie which allowed Russell Adam to go over at the corner . |
| 9 | Previously Joylon was one of the original Directors with Mercia Weavers and lately a Director of Stockwell , Riley Hooley in London . |
| 10 | Current Issues in Agricultural Economics er , edited by your lord and master , Professor Rayner and also a chap called David Coleman okay so , Current Issues in Agricultural Economics by A Rayner and D Coleman . |
| 11 | To further test the old grey matter we are asked ‘ What is a Book ’ and offered everything from an illustrated guide to Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire to a United Kingdom passport and even a cheque book . |
| 12 | The selection of eighty-one canvases and other works of art has been made by Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate Gallery and long an admirer of Ryman 's work , which he showed at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1977 , and Robert Storr , Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art , New York . |
| 13 | Easily Accessible : Greenrigg Hotel is situated at the foot of the Caldbeck Fells and only a mile from the Cumbrian Way in the more northern and in summer , less crowded area of the Lake District . |
| 14 | Adam Russell , the great-grandson of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and now a deer farmer in Dorset , was not overly impressed by Diana when she first walked in . |
| 15 | Thieves broke into a garage at a house in Low Green , Great Ayton , and got into a Porsche car and then a BMW car and stole a £271 radio/cassette stereo from the BMW . |
| 16 | Otto von Habsburg , the Habsburg heir and now a Euro-MP for Bavaria , argues that Hitler 's National Socialists would never have gained power if the Weimar Republic had adopted the British voting system after the First World War . |
| 17 | His declared strategy is to ‘ compartmentalise ’ the Lyceum 's programme , with a summer season of farce being followed by the Edinburgh Festival and then a season of classics , after which he hopes to produce some new plays . |
| 18 | By 11 am Young is out running : twice round Wormwood Scrubs and then a series of exercises , ‘ step-ups and all kinds of keep-fit stuff ’ . |
| 19 | The project is headed by the Director General of Unesco , Federico Mayor Zaragoza , Juan Antonio Samaranch , President of Caixabank and Luìs Monreal , Director of the Fundación de la Caixa and formerly a Unesco official . |
| 20 | When the 3 weeks were up and the Scraggs returned , we looked for other accommodation and found a flat in Riccarton , close to Hagley Park and only a mile from the city centre , and we liked it so much we stayed for four weeks having intended two . |
| 21 | Patrick Swayze , movie star , Hollywood heart-throb and hardly a character actor of any consequence , plays Max Lowe , an American doctor escaping his past by wandering aimlessly around India . |