Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cousin Island also has a small population of giant tortoises , including ‘ George ’ said to be 150 years old and one of the survivors of the endemic subspecies , the others having been introduced from the island of Aldabra which lies about a thousand kilometres away off the north of Madagascar . |
| 2 | La Quinta also has a lovely pool , set in gardens — ideal for soaking in a Golden American Tan . |
| 3 | DUP leader Ian Paisley today launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister John Major over his ability to handle the Dublin Government . |
| 4 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 5 | These doctors must be grossly overpaid , unless — yes , Toby Latimer clearly had a private income which allowed him to indulge his tastes to the full . |
| 6 | The preview for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels shows con man Steven Martin suavely pushing a hapless granny into the sea , but the final film does n't : perhaps it was too funny to be included . |
| 7 | ARC Conbloc also produce a stylish range of paving to suit all tastes and pockets . |
| 8 | Miss Tylee always gave a cheerful service and was most helpful ; if she did n't stock an article the customer was always advised where it could be obtained . |
| 9 | HAPPY Neil Greenwood yesterday hugged a little wonder — brother Brett . |
| 10 | Seven or eight years later , by the time he preached his remarkable sermon ‘ The Weight of Glory ’ C. S. Lewis clearly had a full belief in the Eucharistic Presence , or there would be no force in the rhetoric of his ‘ Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself , your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses . ’ |
| 11 | Richard Baxter also had a great burden for foreign missionary work . |
| 12 | Life , however , is more about building on the little triumphs than moping about disasters , and Carlos Remy certainly enjoyed a rare taste of the former during the Championship drubbing at Southampton . |
| 13 | Miss Logan immediately agreed a second time . |
| 14 | Full details and fixtures are available from David English Please send a stamped addressed envelope . |
| 15 | Marie Murphy then provides a musical interlude with her essay ‘ Down To The Woods ’ , in which she takes a look at the career of that great Ulster songwriter , the late Jimmy Kennedy . |
| 16 | The murder of Sgt Newman also bore a striking similarity to the shooting 25 miles away of Pte Robert Davies , 19 , the Army recruit killed at Lichfield City railway station in June 1990 . |
| 17 | In an essay entitled ‘ Descriptive linguistics in literary studies ’ , the distinguished British linguistician M.A.K. Halliday also offers a stylistic analysis of Yeats 's ‘ Leda and the Swan ’ , but one which makes points of a very different kind from Spitzer 's . |
| 18 | Robert Meaby , whose brother Brian and the Eastbourne captain had been on the wrong end of a five and four beating in the bottom match , had with Christopher Walker already enjoyed a fair share of excitement , halving the shorter length with a birdie putt after Shrewsbury had chipped in for a two . |
| 19 | Bernie Grant also raised a pertinent point with regard to lesbian and gay equality with heterosexuals . |
| 20 | Gavin Lees still looks a sorry sight . |
| 21 | Alex Wyllie , the former New Zealand coach who retired after the World Cup last year , was due in South Africa yesterday to begin a six-month coaching stint . |
| 22 | South Africa now has a black-led but mixed-race government . |
| 23 | Likeable and amusing , Alf Sparkes also had a neurotic side to his nature . |
| 24 | Dr Bob calmly injected a pain-killing drug into the man 's backside . |
| 25 | Jane Pargeter certainly had a fine line in bitchiness . |
| 26 | Soon after this statement , in November 1979 , Taraki 's successor Hafizullah Amin reportedly rebuffed a Soviet request to establish an air base at Shindand near the Iranian border . |
| 27 | While in the USSR negotiating , Dave Price and Alan Preston also acquired a Yak-55 aerobatic aircraft for the Museum . |
| 28 | John is an ex-international steeplechaser turned entrepreneurial agent , and he and Kim McDonald both do a fine job , mostly for distance runners , in finding all-important overseas competition for British athletes . |
| 29 | Paul-Henri Spaak even wrote a personal letter to the British prime minister , Anthony Eden , which , in appealing for discussions within WEU , pointed in the same direction . |
| 30 | Sevenhampton was where novelist Ian Fleming once earned a living writing about a secret agent called James Bond and Rupert likes to think that Roves Farm is helping to put the village back on the map . |