Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yerkes had been an embezzler in the United States and had served a prison sentence . |
| 2 | She turned back to face David and hated to see a reflection of that bitterness in his blue eyes . |
| 3 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 4 | The announcement led to informal discussion between the Board 's officers , District representatives and the National WEA but failed to establish a basis for co-operation of provision in either county . |
| 5 | Now that Brian is back with The Stray Cats , bassman Bobby has teamed up with his producer brother Larson and has recorded a collection of rockin' tunes that 's fairly decent in a Dwight Yoakam sort of a way . |
| 6 | FORTY fans who got off the train at Peterborough and tried to board a ferry at |
| 7 | The team has chosen a mixture of trees native to this part of England and aim to create an area where threatened species of flora and fauna can flourish . |
| 8 | In April 1185 he crossed to Normandy and began to muster an army but he soon found a more effective means of dealing with his insubordinate but formidable son . |
| 9 | Skinner , 31 , who began his career with Blaydon , has decided to leave Harlequins in May but intends to play a season for Blackheath before hanging up his boots . |
| 10 | He borrowed a new T-shirt from Jazz and tried to look a bit cleaner after his night in the graveyard potting shed , determined to keep out of trouble till after the competition . |
| 11 | Thereafter , someone had decided to make it well-nigh impossible to get to Ulm from Messkirch and had constructed an obstacle course of road-works , diversions , traffic jams and misplaced signposts which did my temper no good at all in the sweltering heat . |
| 12 | Both bodies have been able to comment on draft PPGs and MPGs and have secured a number of improvements to their content . |
| 13 | Mr Young met Dempsey and MacPherson at a taxi office in Middlesbrough and agreed to share a taxi with them to Hemlington . |
| 14 | These could become European champions , most notably Volkswagen , which recently purchased Seat in Spain , Skoda in Czechoslovakia and has built a factory in East Germany . |
| 15 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 16 | In April nineteen ninety two , the County Council reassessed the greenbelt boundary around Skelton and resolved to propose a change to exclude topic area D forty from the greenbelt . |
| 17 | There was a running video of the television documentary about Sheikh , who had , at the beginning of June , gained entrance to Oxford and Cambridge and had published an article in an American scientific journal that an eminent German physicist had described as ‘ revelatory ’ . |
| 18 | They played a concert in Lancaster and managed to make a profit on a £40 fee , after playing for van hire and petrol . |
| 19 | But Bruno Ramon , fibres sales executive for Courtaulds Italia , is doing his best , coaching eight-to-12-year-olds in Milan and hoping to unearth a star of the future . |
| 20 | Everyone was frightened and worried , but on 29 September the Prime Minister flew to Munich and returned waving a document which he said meant : ‘ Peace in our time . ’ |
| 21 | They broadcast regularly for the BBC and have made a number of CDs , with many more in the offing . |
| 22 | The DIA 's interest in them sprang from their association with a Chinese arms dealer named David King , also known as David Loo Choy , who represented the People 's Republic of China and had played a part in the North network 's illegal supply of arms to the Nicaraguan Contras in association with Monzer al-Kassar . |
| 23 | When Richard Branson took over negotiations from Fields in March , Wilson and a team of Boeing executives and lawyers flew to Britain , installed themselves in the Carlton Towers hotel in Knightsbridge and prepared to make a killing . |
| 24 | The 55-year-old coach of Grove Athletics Club has already begun her new role by encouraging local sporting and musical groups to consider visits to Mari and has formed a link with a Wantage-based company , Autotype International , which is sending two executives to Mari El in July . |
| 25 | Opponents have lost their fear of facing Neath and have encountered a team low on confidence among the younger members and low on motivation among the older ones who have won everything and done everything . |
| 26 | In February 1991 Czechoslovakia was admitted to the Council of Europe and continued to negotiate an association agreement with the European Communities as a prelude to full membership . |
| 27 | She is also collecting reports of horses stolen to try to establish a link between the thieves across Britain and has started a Horse Watch group in her area , which works in a similar way to Neighbourhood Watch . |
| 28 | As might be expected , the move has stirred up a hornet 's nest of academic fear and loathing against USL and has created a cadre of naive tech weenies ready to form a lynch mob . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1979 another boyfriend , Adam Russell , completed his language degree at Oxford and decided to spend a year travelling . |
| 30 | Having heard of the firm of Boulton & Watt and their new engine , he decided to travel to Birmingham and try to get a job with the firm at their Soho Manufactory . |