Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the eighteenth century the situation was essentially unchanged , for we find the private secretary to Henry Dundas writing to a customs commissioner virtually ordering the placement of ‘ Mr. John Findlay , Excise Officer at Montrose … upon the Examiners list , if found to be properly qualified ’ . |
| 2 | This afternoon in Stockwell near the murder scene , three men were spotted in a Nissan car by a police foot patrol following a tip off . |
| 3 | ‘ This has really taken off for us in a big way , ’ George told Sunday Life after a sports luncheon at Belfast 's Europa Hotel on Friday . |
| 4 | It is headed by Suresh Grover , who , like many associated with the organisation , has been active in radical Asian politics since the mid-1970s and the bitter campaign which followed the death of Blair Peach from a police truncheon blow in 1979 . |
| 5 | The conviction came after the death of New College student Henry Skelton after he jumped from the window of an Oxford house during a drugs party . |
| 6 | During 1983 several demonstrations took place , the most successful one being held in Hereford City at a Ladies Coffee Evening , when many of the 100 strong audience joined enthusiastically in an open session . |
| 7 | He had sent Mrs Brocklebank home in a police car , and the headmaster of the boy 's school had taken charge of the boy . |
| 8 | LSE graduate with a masters degree in law . |