Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two members of this summer 's Lions squad , Mike Griffiths and Mike Hall , decided to leave Bridgend for Cardiff last week , while the Wales hooker Ian Watkins joined them from Ebbw Vale in August to be followed by Newport 's Wales B wing Damien Griffiths and the Abertillery lock Stuart Nunnerley . |
| 2 | When Kendall left , Colin Harvey moved him to right-back after a season . |
| 3 | SUNDERLAND ambulanceman Ian Archbold played it by ear last night to win the North-East Championships 10,000 metres in convincing style at the Cleveland County Stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | TOP music man Simon Draper is quitting Virgin Music just seven months after he and co-founder Richard Branson sold it to Thorn EMI for £560m . |
| 5 | That was why Simon Draper was appalled , horrified and dumbstruck when Richard Branson telephoned him at home one Sunday evening in March 1984 , gushing enthusiasm for another idea . |
| 6 | But Kevin Wilson scored a fine individual goal and Andy Williams put it beyond doubt . |
| 7 | Green-eyed , bemasked , conjuring up the ten-foot plus boards that could conquer the peaks of Waimea , Ken Bradshaw reminded me of Dr Rotwang in Metropolis instilling his robot with beauty and life . |
| 8 | At 11.58 David Dimbleby assured us on BBC : ‘ A total of four results have been declared so far . ’ |
| 9 | Awarded an 1851 exhibition two-year travelling scholarship , from 1899 he worked in Paris ( under P. van Tieghem and M. Cornu ) , Antibes ( where G. Poirault introduced him to chytrids ) , Freiburg ( under F. Oltmanns ) , and finally the Jodrell laboratory of the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew . |
| 10 | Collegians seemed to be heading for a shock win which would have ruined Western 's chances of a possible date with Lisnagarvey in tomorrow 's final when winger David Hutchison put them in front with a superb solo effort in the 20th minute . |
| 11 | The former Clipstone Colliery linesman had his progress impeded by a string of top-class seamers during a frustrating period on the Nottinghamshire staff , and considered quitting the game before Ken Higgs recruited him for Leicestershire in 1990 . |
| 12 | At 10 am precisely a bell rang and Miss Maine took me for introductions . |
| 13 | Then Monsieur Coutelan invited me to lunch in a restaurant in some village . |
| 14 | As soon as Tops was nineteen , Mother Benedicta sent her to Yelton . |
| 15 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 16 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 17 | And they looked on course when goals from Ryan Giggs and Ian Rush put them in front after the RCS had taken a 16th minute lead through Pavel Kuka . |
| 18 | Howey 's career has been transformed since former boss Ossie Ardiles switched him to centre half last season . |
| 19 | Maybe Ray Floyd stung him into action too . |
| 20 | Anthony Swift interviewed him in London . |
| 21 | Then , as you say , Dr McDonald visited us in Cambridge , liked what we were doing and announced his intention of setting up an institute here in Cambridge for research into archaeology . |
| 22 | Dr Newcombe put him in touch with the ACE centre in Oxford , where he 's painstakingly learning how to read and write again . |
| 23 | His father is an important visitor from the United States of America , " Tran Van Hieu told them in French . |
| 24 | William Egan left his with Mrs Brocklebank because he trusted her more than anyone else . |
| 25 | He jumped down and grabbed one , I ran after him , trod on the screws , fell , hurting my gouty foot and breaking the blue vase Auntie Dolly gave us for christmas . |
| 26 | Mr Baker appointed him without interview because he had been impressed by Professor Stubbs 's publications on the importance of knowledge about language . |
| 27 | Then Robert Altman cast him as Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent And Theo . |
| 28 | Mr McQueen joined them at table , and gave Johnson the kind of local knowledge he loved — the economics , way of life , problems of such an existence . |
| 29 | Bruce Carver reminded me of Bill Murphy . |
| 30 | And from the moment Mr Weintraub saw him in Spain he has been in someone 's company twenty-four hours a day . |