Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott for a farmers ' forum at Stockton Cricket Club on Thursday . |
| 2 | The category award winners ranged from a housing co-operative in Dundee to a children 's play area in an Essex village . |
| 3 | Jagger and Carla were introduced by ex-boyfriend rocker Eric Clapton at a Stones concert in America . |
| 4 | Police were questioning a 30-year-old man in connection with the murder of Elizabeth Page-Alucard , 41 , the counsellor who was found dead on Saturday at a drugs advisory centre in Worcester . |
| 5 | Of course , token gestures often suffice to land unknown quantities from obscurity — Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino joined Gillingham from a boys ' club in Crockenhill for the cost of a new set of playing strips . |
| 6 | Regional programming sees the return of dumped ITV soccer pundits Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves on a sports debate programme . |
| 7 | Americans , with no colonial history in the Middle East , tend to see the war against Mr Hussein as a police action against an international thug . |
| 8 | Donald joined Sekers as a wages clerk in 1952 . |
| 9 | If a field manager in , say , Scotland , phones SGB Group headquarters in Mitcham with a personnel query , the Personnel Manager can have a printout of the personal details of all the employees involved while the conversation is taking place . |
| 10 | Norman met Lester on a Housemartins tour ; out-and-out indie group that expired before James Brown 's Funky Drums became the backbone to every white dance record . |
| 11 | The Cookie Monster 's colleague , Big Bird , was later seen at Mrs Major 's neighbour Mrs Rosemary Lamont for a children 's charity event . |
| 12 | Seventy-six Romanians who came to Britain for a Pontins holiday are asking for political asylum , they 're among two hundred of their countrymen who arrived at a Pontins camp near Bristol on Sunday for a weeks stay . |
| 13 | And you worked every second Sunday as a cattle look after the cattle every second Sunday . |
| 14 | On Wednesdays Karen will be at Suffolk College , Ipswich with a beginners ' class and the full day course , again on the ribber , is to be on Fridays at Thorpe High School , Clacton . |
| 15 | By most measures Meadowell is the worst council estate in Britain , and probably the most notorious since the riots last September , which followed the deaths of joyriders Colin Atkins and Dale Robson in a police chase . |
| 16 | In addition , even if it does not have a UK office , a non-UK firm nonetheless needs to be authorised for investment business carried on from a non-UK office with customers or counterparties in the UK on a services basis unless the FSA 's overseas person exemption applies ; this indeed also applies to UK firms ( see page 43 below ) . |
| 17 | You 'd be lost here I can tell you angel , especially given you do n't know how to get from Shepherd 's Bush to Hammersmith without a police escort . |
| 18 | Barnes slammed 65 with the bat and then captured 4–32 with his medium pace bowling to steer Caernarfonshire to a 54-runs victory over Anglesey at Bethesda . |
| 19 | The key element in the suspension of the strike was an order signed by Yeltsin at a miners ' rally in Novokuznetsk on May 1 to transfer all coal mines in the Russian Federation from central Soviet to Russian Federation government control . |
| 20 | A win over British No. 17 , Katie Ricket in a ratings tournament at Alfreton in May , confirmed her rapid progress . |
| 21 | The students , all Hindus from colleges of the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana , had come to Patiala for a students ' festival and were sleeping in a dormitory when they were attacked yesterday . |
| 22 | Suspected Sikh terrorists killed 19 Hindu students visiting the town of Patiala for a students ' festival on Nov. 10 as they slept in dormitories . |
| 23 | In November 1991 , Bull set up Integris as a systems integration subsidiary in Billerica , Massachusetts , and half of Integris 's 120-strong staff works on ImageWorks . |
| 24 | Frith in a wasps ' nest ! |
| 25 | I treasure a torn and spotted letter , valueless from the autograph point of view , dating from the late eighteenth century and endorsed on the back ‘ This Letter was found by Lord Lewisham in a Haberdashers Shop . ’ |
| 26 | Tony then joined men 's captain David Havelock in a doubles and the Bourne paid managed to beat the Parun/Knight pairing in a lively and hard-fought match . |
| 27 | So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm . |
| 28 | Sue asked Derek to a girls ' night out and he turned up as Diane . |
| 29 | For reasons yet to be explained , the ‘ contract ’ affidavit concerning Mrs Mandela , given by Dlamini to a police lieutenant , was not presented at the trial . |
| 30 | Also from the Acropolis come fragments of a large plaque dedicated to Athena by a Polias . |