Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 DAMIEN HOPLEY had just finished celebrating his Twickenham triumph with Cambridge on Tuesday when a phone call from London coach Tony Jorden sent him dashing off to get in another round .
2 A soldier received a shrapnel wound in Sarajevo on Thursday when a UN headquarters was mortared .
3 His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator .
4 The closest case on this point is probably Chapman v. Honig where a landlord gave notice to quit to his tenant , the notice being in accordance with the terms of the lease .
5 Watson held on to third place with a final 74 for a 296 total , with former England international Martin Foster of Worksop just a stroke behind after a closing 68 .
6 Brazil , who had drawn a stormy match 1-1 in Santiago in mid-August , were leading 2-0 in Rio in September when a woman fan released the flare which landed near Rojas but plainly did not hit him .
7 Only 17 anglers turned up for Sunday 's Notts AA Open on the Trent at Shelford so a match was organised downstream at East Bridgeford where there was a stunning result .
8 I saw the Manor at Welshpool where a Class 37 and its passengers awaited its arrival .
9 It was especially popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the whole of fashionable society decamped from London to Bath once a year to take the waters and to see and be seen .
10 ON a bus from Northallerton to Thirsk yesterday a sign stated that the vehicle could hold 24 seated passengers and six standees .
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