Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 2 | The first is the ‘ Austin Special ’ , drawn up by Ted Newman-Jones in Texas and sporting a six-in-line headstock , three of those shimmery-sounding lipstick-tube pickups and a body that looks like someone left a black Les Paul out to melt in the sun , and the second is our review guitar , the Chandler ‘ 555 ’ . |
| 3 | Mosbacher , 64 , like Bush a native easterner who moved to Texas and made a personal fortune in oil and gas , had served as Bush 's national finance chairman in 1988 and was once again expected to concentrate on financing the campaign . |
| 4 | Stukeley also began enthusiastically landscaping the garden of his house in Barn Hill and devised a formal garden on a concentric circular layout which could have been based on his Stonehenge plan ( see drawing ) . |
| 5 | Kelly sat in the jockeys ' stand at Sandown and gave a quiet laugh . |
| 6 | Ally Donaldson kicked two penalty goals for Currie and converted a late try by Dean Mack . |
| 7 | Eddy dangles a very tempting adulterous carrot in front of Richard and suggests a convivial evening of wife swapping . |
| 8 | Convinced that the treaty would undercut German sovereignty by taking away powers from the German parliament , he left Brussels and filed a sweeping complaint claiming that Maastricht damages constitutional guarantees of individual rights and democratic procedure . |
| 9 | A similar organisation of the Habsburg government , the Geheime Kabinets-Kanzlei , operated not merely in Vienna but in Brussels , Liége , Frankfurt and Regensburg and enjoyed a high reputation for its technical skill . |
| 10 | There was still an amiable air to the action but Cantona showed his commitment when he crashed into substitute Abel and earned a yellow card . |
| 11 | Schafer , who by then was back in the United States and running a military supply business called Minihawks in the Atlanta area . |
| 12 | It has an international appeal , with the introduction — written by Betty Viner and providing a brief history of the subject — written in English , German and French . |
| 13 | ‘ We have no intention of taking a stake in another company , nor is there any other company that wants to take a stake in Siemens Nixdorf and become a dominant partner , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Many individuals stand to do better by leaving SERPS and entering a private pension arrangement into which part of their National Insurance contributions and those of the employer are invested . |
| 15 | Government minister Robert Freeman now had a meeting with Roberts and promised a new inquiry . |
| 16 | I had a clerk in St Paul 's write it out , then stood by Aldgate and bribed a royal messenger , carrying the white wand and wearing the royal gold-and-blue surcoat , who was travelling to King 's Lynn , to leave the message with Master Daunbey . |
| 17 | Eventually , he settled in East Dulwich and opened a small grocer 's shop . |
| 18 | The UK company was founded in 1932 at Warwick and had a dual function for LDP . |
| 19 | Lutyens was brought up at Thursley in Surrey and developed a great love for that county 's local styles and materials , although he also built in the grandest of manners . |
| 20 | Proceedings were commenced against Volkswagen of America ( VWoA ) , a New Jersey corporation which did business in Illinois and had a registered address for service there . |
| 21 | Fly from London to Seattle and board a connecting flight to Anchorage . |
| 22 | The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment . |
| 23 | Sik and Smith , of occupational psychologists Saville and Holdsworth , questioned players from three clubs , Sheffield United , Glasgow Celtic and Crystal Palace and found a complete spectrum of personalities from Lineker-level self-control to Gazza-grade tears and tomfoolery . |
| 24 | I HAVE a Bali sunlamp made by Hanovia and need a small bulb approximately two inches long . |
| 25 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 26 | She liked St Etheldreda , who was a Virgin Queen , although she was twice married — she became Abbess of Ely and founded a great House , and was buried in the odour of sanctity — ’ |
| 27 | An international team of distinguished academics reported recently in the journal Minerv'a that ‘ We were particularly amazed to discover that the autonomy of German universities to make admissions policies and admissions has been substantially curtailed by the establishment of a single central admission procedure , the ZVS , located in Dortmund and utilising a programmed computer ’ . |
| 28 | Each chariot is drawn by two fine Elven Steeds and carries a single crewman . |
| 29 | It did not light any new fires for Nicholson and died a quiet death . |
| 30 | A major amendment was accepted by the government even at the report stage in the House of Lords ' consideration of the Bill : the Isle of Wight was separated from Hampshire and retained a separate county council ( Wood 1976:151 ) . |