Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kennedy was 43 when he beat a lacklustre Richard Nixon to the White House . |
| 2 | A graduate of Georgetown University , he 'd won a coveted Rhodes Scholarship to study for a BPhil in Politics at University College . |
| 3 | Troughton McAslan Architects has won a limited LDDC competition for an office and retail development on the ‘ Lipstick site ’ at the western gateway to the Isle of Dogs . |
| 4 | She 's won a bloody Ferrari int she ? |
| 5 | He has won a Central Scotland Police medal for bravery . |
| 6 | Mr Chambers ' solicitor advised him to try a medium-sized London firm . |
| 7 | Ben jumped ashore and tied the rowboat up to the small , wooden jetty , then turned to give a hand to Peng Yu-wei who stood there , cradling a sleeping Meg in one arm . |
| 8 | D' you know they actually fly a Jolly Roger ? |
| 9 | So while the Citizens Theatre Company will present a production specific to the festival that week , the Tron will play host to 7:84 with a new Jackie Kay play , Clyde Unity will premiere a new John Binnie work , Gay Sweatshop will bring new product to the Arches , the Scottish Youth Theatre will present work at the Old Athenaeum and Tramway will programme international groups . |
| 10 | It seems likely that the condition of the roads had begun to grow uneven after Aberdeen : today , upon leaving the main road , the castle , now ruined , may only be approached on pockmarked and muddy lanes , and if these approximate to the surfaces upon which Johnson had to travel once he entered a remoter Scotland , his pace may be understood and excused , and his courage further applauded . |
| 11 | Will Carling promised a packed Twickenham a real game and he delivered , captaining a side in which Stuart Barnes reminded the world of his quality , Robert Jones proved he is Britain 's top scrum-half and Mick Skinner and Ben Clarke roared defiance to the whistle . |
| 12 | Although there were some police flats 200 yards away , he was unaware of any person or premises representing a likely IRA target . |
| 13 | Looking to get more serious in its efforts to encourage a real Sparc compatible community , Sun Microsystems Inc will open a new business unit next month that 'll licence the silicon and system designs of its next generation , 64-bit UltraSparc , SuperSparc+ and MicroSparc ( UX No 426 ) . |
| 14 | NORMAN YARDLEY was an extraordinarily gifted games player who rose to become captain of Yorkshire and England , later becoming a regular BBC commentator and chairman of selectors . |
| 15 | But the truth is that floundering helplessly between two markets — too old-hat to be teeny-bopper and too twee to be taken seriously — Kylie needs a drastic career re-think if she is to avoid becoming a latter-day Lena Zavaroni . |
| 16 | After signing the accord , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , Marian Calfa said it was a milestone on the way to Czechoslovakia becoming a full EC member , for which he would now press . |
| 17 | The first of those points is the principle of a Greater York dimension to the structure plan , erm we 'll all probably be aware that in the original structure plan the Secretary of State was n't prepared to accept a Greater York dimension in the structure plan , but did accept with the support of the district councils on the first alteration , the inclusion of a Greater York dimension . |
| 18 | In honour of the occasion , Mozart was to write a short Singspiel , again to a libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie , called Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) . |
| 19 | If your army contains at least one Mob of ordinary Night Goblins then it may include a single Squig Hunter Mob too . |
| 20 | And the first 50 entrants out of the postbag on Friday , August 28 , will win a Super Nintendo games console with the game Super Mario World . |
| 21 | Then you can win a Super Nintendo , and that 's . |
| 22 | The twenty-five runners up will each win a handy Raleigh Pioneer Pak , worth £17 . |
| 23 | The accents , plus an ability to smell a dodgy London pint of Tetley 's , confirm that , indeed , Bivouac hail from plain old England , as opposed to the New version over the pond . |
| 24 | For example , if I had all the money in the world I could quite easily buy a hundred Ferraris if I wished . |
| 25 | To encourage evaluations , VARs can currently buy a single AlphaWindow terminal with FacetTerm for a reduced price of $350 . |
| 26 | NCR Corp 's Hauppauge , New York-based subsidiary Applied Digital Data Systems Inc has signed a co-marketing agreement with Structured Software Solutions Inc for ADDS to distribute the latter 's FacetTerm Window and session manager software with ADDS ' AlphaWindow and character terminals , making ADDS the only terminal manufacturer to offer windowing systems on both character and AlphaWindow terminals ; to encourage evaluations , value-added resellers can currently buy a single AlphaWindow terminal and FacetTerm for a reduced price of $350 . |
| 27 | Nine laps later , he was thirteenth ; at the halfway mark , eighth ; seventh came when Niki Lauda went off spectacularly ; sixth when he overtook a faltering Mike Hailwood ; fifth when on lap fifty-five he overtook Reutemann after many laps of cat and mouse with the Argentine , never an easy man to get by ; fourth , his finishing position , when his team-mate François Cevert gallantly waved him by . |
| 28 | Some described a future Anne unmarried and unhappy , for instance , or told of her helping and subsequently marrying the second-ranked , male student . |
| 29 | You could support the scheme ( and provide free advertising at the same time ) by purchasing a chic Mark 2 tee — shirt . |
| 30 | MARTIN and Andrea Stevens will enjoy a special Valentine 's Day treat today to put a double nightmare behind them . |