Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why they are determined to triumph on Tuesday and lift themselves into a respectable position in Group Three from which the favourites to qualify are Spain , Denmark and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 2 | Mr Sisulu , now 77 , was six years older than Mr Mandela and became something of a mentor to him on his arrival in Johannesburg in 1941 . |
| 3 | If you 've any sense you 'll give me a ride to Shipton and put me on a train , then go back to your farm and forget all about me . ’ |
| 4 | UMWA women recently held a birthday party for Roberts and presented him with a plaque engraved with his now famous quote . |
| 5 | RENTAMINSTER , the third market company which supplies labour to the construction industry , has instituted court proceedings against Anthony Swales and dismissed him as a director of the company and its subsidary BES Construction Services . |
| 6 | Burning and looting the countryside as he went , Edward took Caen and subjected it to a brutal sacking . |
| 7 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 8 | The anxiety about case loads was accompanied by a concern over the provision of ‘ cover ’ together with some concern about the isolation of the development officer 's position , which did not fit into any overall management structure at Age Concern England and left them without a full-time support , supervision and management back-up service . |
| 9 | Despite high fences and danger warning signs , children managed to get into the remains of Lyppard Grange at Warndon in Worcester and use it as an adventure playground . |
| 10 | You know our king , when he visited Maubisson , often called on Abbe Gerard and used him as a confessor ? ’ |
| 11 | Six members of staff restrained Sigsworth and took him into a secure room where he was injected with a drug and the police were called . |
| 12 | I went to Miami and booked myself aboard a late-night Pan American jumbo jet to Panama City , arriving shortly before dawn in the pullulating and insufferably hot shanty-capital sprawling beside that most famous of all entrances to the world 's greatest of seas . |
| 13 | Flynn , of course , meant that the English government was uncaring and malignant — out to break Ireland and keep her as an inexhaustible well of cheap labour and a fertile nursery for the British army . |
| 14 | Managing director Bert Daly thanked Ian and presented him with a gift to mark the occasion . |
| 15 | He held both of them for a moment before turning to Ian and presenting him with a sword drawn from its scabbard . |
| 16 | The Second World War set back Stalin 's hopes of completely rebuilding Moscow and replacing it with a new Soviet city , centrally planned and co-ordinated like the economy . |
| 17 | While the Greed Is Good League threatens to fall apart — and who cares ? — while England 's team is outplayed in Spain , cricket 's selectors drop David Gower and hurl themselves into a whirlpool of crazy contradictions . |
| 18 | As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale . |
| 19 | The European Commission wants to change the 1958 Euratom Treaty to end trade barriers within the EEC and to establish itself as a watchdog on deals between member countries and outsiders . |
| 20 | At first , he says , people did not understand what she wanted , but she came to learn about the Masai and write it in a book . |
| 21 | Dr. Jack Weir , moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland , met Roy Mason , the secretary of state for Northern Ireland , on 31st March and presented him with a memorandum drafted in judicious , forceful terms . |
| 22 | It 's a sobering thought that in a million years or so , the Thames will break through somewhere around Poplar High Street and turn it into a proper island . |
| 23 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Derrick and I went to Blackpool and booked ourselves into a hotel , ’ she recalls . |
| 25 | The lecithin cholesterol acyl transferase ( LCAT ) system is active in this process and generates cholesterol esters in the HDL and converts them into a spherical shape . |
| 26 | The jury at Oxford Crown Court found the married father of two guilty after hearing that he 'd tied the woman 's hands hands behind her back in the city 's New Road and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal , during which she 'd feared for her life . |
| 27 | An immediate option for Tottenham was to have stripped the big centre-half of the captaincy at Elland Road and hit him with a hefty fine . |
| 28 | Charlemagne and the pope had received information from certain persons that Offa was suggesting that the Frankish king should depose Hadrian and replace him with a new pope of Frankish extraction . |
| 29 | This route begins from Glen Nevis and you can take your car up to the head of the Glen and leave it in a packed car park , if you can find a space between the ice-cream vans and hot-dog vendors . |
| 30 | The first congress of the ruling Popular Front , held in Ouagadougou , the capital , on March 1-4 , decided to draft a constitution for Burkina Faso and put it to a referendum within six months . |