Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1949 he married Marjorie , daughter of Edgar Currie , formerly a warehouse foreman for a removals firm , but incapacitated during World War I. There were no children . |
| 2 | Michael Thomas Bartley , and his girlfriend Julie Saint , both of Newton Aycliffe , are jointly charged with having a pump action shotgun and a Wingmaster shotgun without a firearms certificate . |
| 3 | If you are earning more money and you hav n't got enough points , they could move you from a specialist department to a police station . |
| 4 | After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar . |
| 5 | This afternoon in Stockwell near the murder scene , three men were spotted in a Nissan car by a police foot patrol following a tip off . |
| 6 | My work experience includes one year as an accounts clerk , and two years as a shop assistant in a women 's clothes shop . |
| 7 | A BURGLAR who left his snarling rottweiler behind when he fled from the law launched a midnight raid on a police station and nicked it back . |
| 8 | A MIDDLESBROUGH child has died from head injuries after a metal fence-panel at a sports centre crashed down on him . |
| 9 | Central American Cichlids by Dave Sands says to use a 200W heater/stat for a 24″ × 15″ × 12″ tank , and 2 × 150W for 36″ × 18″ × 12″ . |
| 10 | The purchase of a call option on a futures contract gives the owner the right to acquire a long position in the futures contract at a set price ( the exercise or striking price ) during ( or at the end of ) a specified time period . |
| 11 | Fifty firemen were called to deal with the fire in a storage section of a plastics factory . |
| 12 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 13 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 14 | She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women 's magazine . |
| 15 | He took part in a television series starring Billie Whitelaw called Time Out For Peggy , playing a verse writer for a greetings card manufacturer , and in a Margaret Rutherford TV play , The Noble Spaniard He also had two more demanding projects — pantomime and a second Carry On film . |
| 16 | A WARNING has been issued after the theft of a leather jacket from a men 's changing room . |
| 17 | Pre-tax profits dropped almost 44 p.c. last year to £62m after provisions of £10m for rationalisation costs and the benefits of a £7m a year contribution from a pensions holiday . |
| 18 | The basis of her legal case was that this condition had been caused by a motor accident four months before her birth in which her mother lost control of a pick-up truck during a cattle muster on the family ranch . |
| 19 | That was great when you were a unit manager for a Directors ' Boardroom , but it 's not right now for a work 's canteen . |