Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your speedo needs changing for a LWB or recalibrating by a specialist company . |
| 2 | That would be a little bit of a problem for Frank Clarke if er Cooper has got a problem with his shoulder you know if it 's if it 's serious because looking at his people on his bench you know Neil Webb and Crosby and looking at the make-up of his team he has n't really got anybody he could slot back in there unless he put er Rozario in there . |
| 3 | W.G. Grace was taking part in a match for London County against Warwickshire , opening the batting with W.L. Murdoch and playing in a fashion which reminded contemporary reporters of his heyday , and C.B. Fry was scoring a century for Sussex . |
| 4 | A social worker by training , his earlier career embraced social work for the deaf in Liverpool and Nottinghamshire and teaching at the North London Polytechnic , where he was tutor in charge of the course leading to a " Certificate in Deaf Studies " . |
| 5 | He kissed his mother on the cheek , nodded to Becky and turning at the door , saluted his father in the chair , then was gone . |
| 6 | How do you turn a clapped-out Lada into a Mercedes while driving down the motorway ? |
| 7 | She met Andy while working on a production of Carmen at Sky Television , and at their wedding , her two outfits stole the show . |
| 8 | Like most true Cornishmen , the Arundells were staunchly Royalist during the troubles , and the sixth Sir John was killed at Plymouth while charging at the head of his troop in 1643 . |
| 9 | That just by coming to England and driving along the road from Dover to , to London or wherever he has given his tacit consent . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , with everyone congratulating Nahum and chatting about a wedding . |
| 11 | Angel had had a magical childhood , bucking the system at the smart Buenos Aires boys ' school of Champagnat and living during the term time in a large house in the Avenidad del Libertador . |
| 12 | Landscape , of course , is his forte and a show of recent works in this department ( oil paintings and graphics ) are on at Marlborough starting 6 January and continuing until the end of the month . |
| 13 | Settling the dispute took many years and several surveys , carried out by Bowes in 1542 , 1550 and 1580 ; and Johnson and Goodwin in 1604 produced : ‘ A survey of the Debatable and Border Lands adjoining the Realm of Scotland and belonging to the Crown of England , taken in 1604 . ’ |
| 14 | Eyeing her and Nigel and speaking to the air . |
| 15 | Yesterday Miss Stott 's grandparents said they believed she and her boyfriend , Peter Ellis , originally from Tyneside but working as a computer analyst in New Zealand for the past 18 months , had gone on the three-week holiday in order to get engaged and to share their love of jazz . |
| 16 | AMOCO , the US oil company , announced last night that it had found a new gasfield 125 miles east of Aberdeen while drilling on a prospect it has named Appleton . |
| 17 | At this stage in his life , this was as important to Nicholson as searching for the character he was playing . |
| 18 | The South Korean news agency Yonhap on Oct. 19 reported Kim as saying during the visit that he would remain in power for four to five more years . |
| 19 | The trend towards a more nationalistic variety of communism , independent of Moscow and resting on the approach of mass mobilisation advocated by Mao , inspired those Korean communists who felt that this approach could prove valuable for their own party in the future . |
| 20 | The two sessions were a mixture of going through tapes and other materials , editing and adapting these for a thirty-minute radio programme , watching a documentary of a 1944 Lancaster raid on Germany and reflecting on the project as a whole . |
| 21 | This would result in the price increasing in Germany and falling in the UK . |
| 22 | Fields in bird breeding areas directly to the north and west of Anglesey and Holyhead and bordering on the north west coastline of the Llyn Peninsula were excluded along with fields in breeding grounds of the bottle-nosed dolphin on the Moray Firth in Scotland and in Cardigan Bay , West Wales , were excluded . |
| 23 | Brannen , now working in Stoke and competing for the city 's athletics club , agreed to represent his new home county in the pole vault and high jump before team manager Bill McGuirk contacted him with an invitation to be the NorthEast 's 110 metres hurdler . |
| 24 | Once settled in , Crawford established a routine of returning from each night 's performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theater and sitting on the floor eating English food , drinking orange squash out of Woolworth glasses and playing Monopoly . |
| 25 | We can legitimately ask what does a senior official based in Whitehall and acting as a policy adviser to a minister have in common with an administrative officer working in a local branch of the Department of Social Security other than the fact that they are both civil servants ? |
| 26 | The particular business can be briefly summarized as filling the vacant patriarchate of Constantinople , hearing the primatial claims of the archbishop of Toledo and dealing with the heresy in the lands of the count of Toulouse . |
| 27 | If it were found that the BEF was indeed across the River Marne and moving into the gap between Kluck and Bülow , then Bülow should retreat to the River Aisne . |
| 28 | Or spend an afternoon watching Brighton & Hove Albion or listening to the sound of leather on willow at the Sussex County Ground . |
| 29 | After playing only a handful of games for Celtic , Docherty moved south to Preston North End , where he made his debut on Christmas Day 1949 , eventually displacing his mentor Bill Shankly and rising through the ranks to captain the Preston side . |
| 30 | — 1 mile 75 chains , commencing at the Penge boundary in Beckenham Road and continuing to a point in Beckenham High Street at the west end of Manor Road . |