Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 61 | Peggy sank into a chair . |
| 62 | I 've never had a bite since mornin' , ’ which made Ben exclaim on a laugh , ‘ I ca n't believe that . |
| 63 | Its origins are lost in antiquity but the Rock has probably ben used as a fortress from the Iron Age . |
| 64 | He trusted the captains of his ships , he trusted his trading partners in the East , in the Indian Ocean , over the Atlantic , around the African coast ; his clerks , his associates in Liverpool , his bank , his builders , his carpenters , those who supplied him with his furniture and his clothes — Mr Crump moved in a world of total trust . |
| 65 | 1982 was the definitive Reading ROCK festival : Budgie , Iron Maiden and Michael Schenker headlined with a supporting cast of such acned arseholes as Terraplane and Praying Mantis , and old stagers Blackfoot and Tygers Of Pan Tang . |
| 66 | After two hours of driving Carson and Alison stopped at a motorway services area , a cut-rate chunk of space-age that straddled the carriageway . |
| 67 | Mrs Langley rose from a chair by the fire and Alexandra was aware of her daughters and someone else on a sofa in the great square bay window ; and even as Mrs Langley was greeting her she could hear Rose say clearly , ‘ Well , whatever else she has n't got , she certainly has elegant clothes , ’ and Alexandra , stung out of all terror quite suddenly , said crisply , ‘ I will tell my aunt how much you admire her taste . |
| 68 | Jim stopped at a café on the road side . |
| 69 | Marcella poin'ted to a rather lean , severe-looking woman with deep-set eyes . |
| 70 | And third , how has the central system for planning and controlling spending in Whitehall changed as a consequence of the ‘ hard times ’ ? |
| 71 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 72 | Alison presided in a relaxed way , finding things for people to do , drawing them out , drawing them in . |
| 73 | Jessica drew in a great breath of cool air . |
| 74 | Lance Corporal Gary Manning was one of nine servicemen who died when an RAF Hercules crashed during a low-level training flight in Scotland two weeks ago . |
| 75 | DALIAN ATKINSON could be the next target as England manager Graham Taylor looks for a hit-man . |
| 76 | On page 10 IAN LUCAS looks at a catfish set-up . |
| 77 | Gary lives in a block of flats . |
| 78 | Defining the relative fluctuations in mass density as where is the mean mass density of the Universe , we can relate the variance , , of mass-density fluctuations on a scale R to the power spectrum by Rayleigh 's theorem where is the Fourier transform of a window function on a scale R . |
| 79 | The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham entered into a series of transactions with various banks which resulted in considerable losses when interest rates rose . |
| 80 | The Labour party in its two minority governments in 1924 and 1929 — 31 , despite some minor foreign policy successes , failed to pass any much-needed radical social legislation and Ramsay Macdonald behaved in a constitutionally impeccable manner . |
| 81 | Easily Accessible : Bala lies beside a four-mile long lake ( which you can take a steam-train ride around ) and is surrounded by three mountain ranges . |
| 82 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 83 | At Christie 's , Noel Annesley presided over a satisfactory auction with his customary skill , a failing voice enhancing , rather than diminishing , his dry humour which maintained the momentum of the sale . |
| 84 | Cockney Davidson cracked under a string of jibes such as ‘ Where 's the missus Jim ? ’ . |
| 85 | April 9 , 1944 , brought the crew their tenth mission , on what Dan described as a ‘ Long haul ’ to the FW 190 plant at Marienburg , in East Prussia . |
| 86 | Mait drew to a halt , Henri , Carrefour and Richmann pulling up beside him . |
| 87 | Then in their wake , a stately schooner under full sail — Sister Cooney bobbing like a fretful tug in attendance — she hove in sight , a strongly-timbered woman , solid and soundly ballasted . |
| 88 | A carbon-fibre brake disc shattered as he slowed from high speed , and his McLaren crashed into a guard rail . |
| 89 | The MCC reported to a council of resident representatives . |
| 90 | It 's mildly encouraging now , though , when Tod looks at a woman in the street . |