Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When his court-appointed attorney , Michael Deutsch , filed a discovery motion on 30 August for documents that might show Coleman had been acting under orders when he applied for the Thomas Leavy passport , the DEA , the DIA and the CIA all declined to comply on grounds of national security . |
| 32 | Her confidence and conviction that she was somebody special served her well when she applied for the UN job . |
| 33 | Since the England manager acted as one of Ward 's referees when he applied for the York job , it was no surprise when Taylor turned to one of his trusted lieutenants to take charge of England 's Under-21 squad for the end-of-season international tournament in Toulon . |
| 34 | Mark Roe 's Sunningdale high point : the chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 35 | For me the high point of the week at Sunningdale was my first chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 36 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 37 | He had already killed dozens of men on duty ; he slipped ashore during a skirmish at Haifa , disguised as a Coldstream private , and shot several more . |
| 38 | Stourport along with Bromley qualified for the Crystal Palace finals . |
| 39 | These Diploma holders , together with a further four members who qualified for the FSD under the Lombard Scheme , bring the total number of FSD holders to 387 worldwide . |
| 40 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |
| 41 | I was doing radio plays for the BBC . |
| 42 | As a keen musician and clarinet player ( name your own musical instrument or say ‘ As one who appreciates music but can not play anything more difficult than a gramophone record , I was very impressed to learn ) I was delighted to learn that Annabelle 's uncle plays for the BBC orchestra ( or pop group , etc. ) , on the violin ( or drums ) . |
| 43 | Also selected for the first time is batsman Mohsin Chohan , who plays for the Bangor club and has appeared for Caernarfonshire in the past . |
| 44 | Club captain Dave Dickson , SVT mechanical engineer , was presented with the stylish kit by Dave Stephenson , Honeywell engineer at the terminal , who also plays for the Lerwick side . |
| 45 | He plays for the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg and is a certainty for Transvaal . |
| 46 | Another caracara , the crested , also nests on Sea-lion but is nowhere near as tame and confiding as the Johnny rook . |
| 47 | So Uzbek gas supplies to Kirgiz parts of the Fergana valley , tucked between the Tien Shan and Pamir mountains , were halted , leaving Osh , Kirgizstan 's second-largest town , short of fuel . |
| 48 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 49 | Wee Blair McAfferty now rides for the DB am team . |
| 50 | The winner will feature on the Miss Pears soap cartons for the following year and have her picture painted for the Pears portrait gallery , as well as picking up a cheque for £1000 . |
| 51 | In 1878 he tramped through the Cevennes with a donkey named Modestine and discovered the delights of Travels with a Donkey . |
| 52 | He took with him a recording of the female whales at play which he made off the Azores as part of his post-graduate efforts to analyse sperm whale sounds . |
| 53 | Until recently , her remit was to train staff about HIV/AIDS , and she informs children referred about the HIV test . |
| 54 | All the planning , training , and pre-production work began to culminate in early December 1968 when the first filmed scenes were completed aboard the USS Yorktown , playing the role of the Japanese carrier Akagi , cruising off the California coast . |
| 55 | This is as true of nineteenth-century Whitley Bay ( which literally ceased to be farmland ) as it is of almost all of Longbenton , developed as a Newcastle over spill after 1945 . |
| 56 | Land adjacent to the site would be developed as the Lancashire Enterprises Business and Technology Park . |
| 57 | Russia 's huge wartime losses in both life and material , culminating in those sustained during the Brusilov Offensive , were instrumental in bringing about the Russian Revolution in 1917 . |
| 58 | You only have to drive through the West Midlands to see that if we are in the Super-League of top industrial nations , somebody must be moving the goalposts . |
| 59 | The rebels believe that Mr Major 's credibility is in tatters after a series of defeats and retreats as the Maastricht Bill lumbers through Parliament . |
| 60 | Once the foreign lawyer is registered as an RFL , he or she may enter into partnership with an English solicitor . |