Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People in the British colony of Hong Kong could settle in the British colony of the Falklands and form an independent state . |
| 2 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 3 | You left the car at Dortmund and caught an early morning train for Ostend — you said . |
| 4 | Talking about Gareth , he refereed the Scotland v Spain game in December and had an interesting situation with a Spanish try . |
| 5 | The study is being undertaken in co-operation with the Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence and follows an earlier pilot study , of the international iron ore market carried out in 1982-83 , supported by the ESRC . |
| 6 | The Irish annual covers every aspect of the game throughout Ireland and provides an in-depth look at the ICC Trophy in Kenya next February . |
| 7 | The Irish annual covers every aspect of the game throughout Ireland and provides an in-depth look at the ICC Trophy in Kenya next February . |
| 8 | As he picked up his drink Duclos looked meaningfully at Lepine and raised an inquiring eyebrow in her direction . |
| 9 | On Feb. 20 an agreement with Germany first planned in April 1991 was officially finalized , forgiving half of Poland 's DM9,100 million ( about US$5,520 million ) debt to Germany and setting an 18-year repayment schedule for the rest . |
| 10 | They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep . |
| 11 | Bourgois pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning Miss Lamplugh and possessing an offensive weapon . |
| 12 | Allegedly unhappy about the sanitation and the cockroaches but by his own admission surprising himself by pining for ‘ Kensington , Belgravia , phone boxes and iron railings ’ , Lawrence returned to Blighty and spent an extended sojourn in Windsor , where he assembled Denim around him . |
| 13 | The move to Bernard Ecclestone 's Brabham was to a team which had a lot going for it — it was owned by the man who was consolidating his hold on FI and had an outstanding engineer in Gordon Murray — and one serious defect . |
| 14 | In August and September of the same year the Belgians rebelled against the Kingdom of the Netherlands and established an independent state . |
| 15 | Of course , he 's terribly anxious for me to settle down out there , marry Cora-Beth and become an American citizen , the way his father did years ago . |
| 16 | While it was a Conservative government , under Edward Heath , that initiated the PAR review mechanism , it was the 1979 Conservative administration , under Margaret Thatcher , that formally abandoned PAR and instituted an alternative strategy of ‘ scrutinies ’ under the ( then ) direction of Sir ( later Lord ) Derek Rayner — see chapter 7 . |
| 17 | The Club is based in Chambers Street and offers an extensive range of facilities including restaurants , bars , squash and snooker ; membership also entitles you to take advantage of the very competitive rates for both accommodation and private functions . |
| 18 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 19 | That afternoon Meehan was released from Peterhead and given an interim compensation payment of £2500 with a promise of more to come . |
| 20 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37949 ] , the opposition PCD defeated the MLSTP and formed an interim government pending the presidential elections scheduled for March 3 . |
| 21 | Emburey 's last Test was against Australia at Old Trafford in 1989 , the game in which it was announced that he was among 16 rebels who had decided to tour South Africa and accept an international ban . |
| 22 | PL/I for ADMVS has the look and feel of TSO/ISPF and provides an integrated environment for MVS PL/I development under OS/2 . |
| 23 | Partly because of this British presence , the Belgian Army was able to begin evacuating Antwerp on 8 October and to make an orderly retreat along the coast . |
| 24 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 25 | Mr Jones , whose son Ryan Millen , six , lives with his mother in South Liverpool and has an older brother Jeffery in Broadgreen , was in intensive care for three months , unable to speak . |
| 26 | Lord Hanson bought a 3% stake in ICI but ultimately abandoned his takeover plans , acquired Beazer and made an unsuccessful bid for Ranks Hovis McDougall , defeated by his protege at Tomkins , Chris Hutchins . |
| 27 | B-17F-30-VE 42 — 5897 had been christened Roundtrip Jack and wore an appropriate Jackass caricature with a golden tooth . |
| 28 | Subsequently he was a pupil of ( Sir ) John Aspinall [ q.v. ] of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Horwich and became an assistant manager at their Newton Heath , Manchester , carriage workshops in 1901 and works manager in the following year . |
| 29 | In 1973 a Mossad hit squad went to Norway and murdered an innocent Moroccan mistaking him for an alleged Arab terrorist . |
| 30 | I live in Malta and have an English pen-friend called Rae . |