Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Balvinder Singh who one day in late January suddenly announced , quite unprompted , that he would not be on duty on Sunday as he and his father Punjab Singh were going to watch what he called a ‘ bird challenge ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I did not play great golf , but I putted well , ’ said Lawrie who three times sank chances from four yards elsewhere . |
| 3 | The only truly representative delegation was that of the United States whose five delegates had been chosen earlier that year at a convention in Cincinnati . |
| 4 | And if the appeal does n't give Swindon its million pounds , it 'll leave a bitter taste when they have to defend against Hoddle 's playing skills in the Premier League next season . |
| 5 | Around November 1856 , Bacon and his family moved to Walworth in London and on 29 December their two children , Edwin Fuller Bacon , aged 2½ , and Sarah Ann Bacon , aged 11 months , were brutally murdered by having their throats cut . |
| 6 | In Manchester a similar service was offered by Support in Debt founded , also in 1987 , by Stuart Giles who three years later was appealing for £500,000 to keep it going . |
| 7 | But it was Casaubon who fifty years later imposed Polybius as the expert in political life , as a far better guide than the fashionable Tacitus . |
| 8 | How does one compare the class work of a teacher in Tunbridge Wells whose five year olds all come from homes where books are common , to that of a teacher in a multiracial school in St Paul 's , Bristol ? |
| 9 | The officials finally admitted they were wrong — and paid Pete his two weeks ' benefit of £84 . |
| 10 | The Gooser represents Paddy Mullins who ten years ago was something of an Aintree specialist . |
| 11 | On 22 Rabi I 823/6 April 1420 , Molla Fenari departed from Cairo for the Ottoman lands , accompanied by his son-in-law ( ? — sihr ) , Shaykh Ahmad b . |
| 12 | In the summer of our second year in Rye my four grandchildren came to stay — Mark , Elizabeth , Emma , Charlotte — and I realised that for more than a hundred years there had not been a child at Lamb House . |
| 13 | Another horse with a lot going for him is Cahervillahow who two years ago was being touted as a future winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 14 | The 40-year-old replaces 23-year-old Salisbury whose 29 overs in the second Test in Madras cost 142 runs . |
| 15 | Edgware lead the Division Three table by a single point from Tilbury whose 2–1 win against Hornchurch preserved their unbeaten home record . |
| 16 | Worthington 's promotion to captain is the only good news this week for his club Sheffield Wednesday whose four England representatives — Andy Sinton , Chris Woods , Des Walker and Carlton Palmer — were all left out of the side to face Poland . |
| 17 | After a long gallop to Radstock our two heroes then made their weary way back to Crediton where they made their final assault . |
| 18 | Kidney patient and senior registrar at South Cleveland hospital , Dr Marion Stevens who three years ago could barely move due to her illness is becoming medical director of Teesside Hospice partly due to her work on the new drug which changed her life . |
| 19 | At an ordinary time it would have been almost impossible to enter undetected , but tomorrow morning , when the Lord of Parfois brought home from France his forty knights and their followings , and the entire population of the castle came out to meet them and bring them in , then one more insignificant boy might very well slip unnoticed into the throng and get by the guard at the gate unchallenged . |
| 20 | Baird then returned to the mainland after two years to work as sous chef under Brian Baker at Hambleton Hall , Leicestershire , before being offered the head chef 's job at Longueville himself 12 months later . |
| 21 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 22 | The following month yet another 240 Squadron London ( K5911 ) showed its mettle when it ran into a formation of Heinkel He 111 bombers of KG26 near the Shetlands . |
| 23 | Axis Fighters ( No 2 ) and Axis Bombers ( No 4 ) are particularly recommended as they show the expected types and such interesting aircraft as the Arado Ar 234 jet bomber , Heinkel He 177 bomber and Heinkel He 280 jet fighter . |
| 24 | Axis Fighters ( No 2 ) and Axis Bombers ( No 4 ) are particularly recommended as they show the expected types and such interesting aircraft as the Arado Ar 234 jet bomber , Heinkel He 177 bomber and Heinkel He 280 jet fighter . |
| 25 | They were ordered to camp in a swampy depression beside the Missouri which one observer suggested had been selected ‘ for the express purpose of putting an end to Chief Joseph and his band ’ . |
| 26 | In London their 135 bureaux were informed by the London Money Advice Support Unit which in March 1990 reported that consumers then owed £26.7 billion on credit commitments , excluding mortgages , but that in spite of high interest rates , borrowing continued to grow . |
| 27 | The close race of the weekend now has the makings of a landslide victory for the Governor of Arkansas who ten months ago was just an also-ran for the Democratic nomination . |
| 28 | So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car . |
| 29 | The skills of boxing , fencing and riding made of Joyce what one observer called ‘ a thug of the first order ’ . |
| 30 | In Safar 989/March 1581 he became Rumeli kazasker a second time , and , on 26 Dhu " l-Hijja of the same year ( 21 January 1582 ) , he became Mufti , in which post he remained until his death on 28 Jumada I 995/6 May 1587 . |