Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
| 2 | Indeed when the time came to leave Germany I made a mental decision never to return . |
| 3 | Each time I have a pint in the pub at Rhydd Ddu I recall a snowy Easter night spent waiting for mates who had set off earlier to tackle the Snowdon Horseshoe . |
| 4 | At Cosford I received a sobering shock , being beaten by Lincoln Asquith in the 60 metres . |
| 5 | More successful were a ‘ Still-life with flowers on a ledge ’ by Juan de Arellano which achieved a new record for the artist of Pta108.4 million ( £592,400 ; $1.1 million ) , and a ‘ Pietà ’ by Luis de Morales ( lot 3 ) , also a record at Pta22.6 million ( £123,824 ; $230,314 , est . |
| 6 | We began this section by noting that , unlike the United States which takes a structural approach to anti-trust policy , in which the possession of monopoly power is itself regarded as objectionable , the UK has taken a more open view of the benefits of promoting competition . |
| 7 | But most MEPs say the parliament should be in Brussels where they have their offices , and have signed a lease-buy deal on a £171 million debating chamber in Brussels which involves a legal obligation of annual rent of £16.7 million and will now be used for just a few hours each year . |
| 8 | On this occasion we had no option but to begin our traverse on Saturday which meant a compulsory day of rest somewhere en route . |
| 9 | It was only Shortreed 's family connections with the Elliots which guaranteed a friendly reception . |
| 10 | Bosanquet 's book , The Philosophical Theory of the State , was , for example , designed to challenge the individualism of such thinkers as Bentham , Mill , and Spencer who posit a basic antagonism between the individual and the state . |
| 11 | And red-faced Brucie , brought back to steady the ship , blundered for the second goal , racing to the edge of his area to punch straight to Earle who sent a superbly-judged lob back over him from 25 yards . |
| 12 | He will team up with Widnes star John Devereux who agreed a short-term deal with Manly coach Graham Lowe last week . |
| 13 | At Frinton we played a one-armed bandit for two whole clattering hours and never attained three fruits in a row — but did we mope ? |
| 14 | On Tuesday we had a first-class Budget , a Budget for recovery . |
| 15 | In Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland we encounter a large cat , lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear . |
| 16 | But on Saturday we face a new challenge , virtually the Bath team led by Stuartwho clearly has already made his mark on South West . |
| 17 | If York or London needed Bell or Ramsey they had a moral duty to move whether or not they wanted it . |
| 18 | MOTHER Teresa , a Scout jamboree and the Pope may seem an odd combination but for stamp designer Gyula Vasarhelyi they have a common bond they all feature on his latest stamp designs for Mongolia . |
| 19 | As a young doctor in Leiden he paid a seminal visit to the neuroanatomist WJH Nauta , at that time developing a revolutionary anatomical technique for investigating the nervous system by staining degenerating fibres cut off from their parent cell-bodies . |
| 20 | Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn . |
| 21 | But Prokofiev 's opera owes just as much of its enthralling power to the brilliance of its orchestral writing , and in Edward Downes it has a superlative master of the composer 's idiomatic style . |
| 22 | Much later the Boots Pure Drug Co. endowed professorships in honour of Lord and Lady Trent which made a substantial contribution to the academic growth of the University . |
| 23 | John McQueen himself had a hard struggle to remain solvent as a twenty-six-year-old university student with a wife and three children . |
| 24 | One day in January I had a free afternoon , as Adèle was ill , so I decided to walk to Hay , a village two miles away , to post a letter for the housekeeper . |
| 25 | In my garden at Wells I have a wonderful well — indeed , there are five of them and the city of Wells derives its name from the five springs in the palace grounds . |
| 26 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 27 | This is despite recent research in Scotland which shows a substantial increase in smokers between the ages of 11 to 15 . |
| 28 | In March 1913 , profiting from Wilson 's 1911 victory , Larking embarked on a fifteen week dispute with the City of Dublin Steamship Packet Company , bringing this to a successful conclusion and becoming in his biographer 's words , " the virtual dictator of the port of Dublin " , and the possessor of a profitable joint agreement with the shipowners arrived at on 26 May which included a no-strike clause . |
| 29 | Despite two major disappointments in the Old Master section of the sale , Christie 's were pleased with the results of their two-day Spanish sale on 28 and 29 May which covered a wide range of categories including jewellery , ceramics , frames , carpets , arms , books and Old Master , modern and contemporary pictures . |
| 30 | Only 4 miles from Blore is the old and very pretty market town of Ashbourne which boasts a cobbled square and magnificent 14th-century church . |