Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the midst of doing both the Round The Horne radio series and a couple of ‘ Carry Ons ’ , Ken was cast as Napoleon in a BBC TV version of the Anouilh play French Cricket , with Robert Helpmann playing Fouche , the Chief of Police . |
| 2 | ‘ The council did award the contract but there is no evidence to support NCP 's claim that the council should put right the defect , ’ said Mr Buxton in a statement . |
| 3 | We have the additional reference in The Recluse ( see p. 109 ) and a further reading of that poem shows that the Wordsworths approached Grasmere in a mood of mystical elation verging on trance . |
| 4 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 5 | Goodman scored in the win at the Baseball Ground last season that kicked off Malcolm Crosby 's managerial reign — now his goals are needed to help keep Crosby in a job . |
| 6 | Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time . |
| 7 | Probably as the snorting monsters emerged from the Black Hole of Balcombe in a cloud of smoke and steam , a merry crowd of villagers who watched from the top of the embankment gave a wary cheer and wondered what the world was coming to ! |
| 8 | Bullies like to be Number One and the thought that someone else could be muscling in on his top-spot got Herod in a bit of a strop . |
| 9 | Oh we 're , we 're going to Sainsburys in a minute . |
| 10 | The Administrative Security Department said Jose Abello Silva , indicted in the US in 1987 on drug charges , was arrested on Tuesday in a Bogota restaurant . |
| 11 | A Tuesday in a month |
| 12 | There can not be many lyric-writers who have begun their careers in the theatre by dancing Scheherazade in a strip-club in Los Angeles , gone on to appear at La Scala , Milan and then to play the title-role in Mother Company . |
| 13 | The politician 's dilemma has never been better stated than by George Dempster in a letter which he wrote to Sir Adam Fergusson in 1783 : |
| 14 | One day I bumped into Patric Walker in a Fleet Street boozer and he was very helpful . |
| 15 | In an article in Figaro in 1978 Jean-Pierre Dujardin collected together the best-researched estimates of lives lost under communism : it was based on studies such as Robert Conquest 's classic analysis of Stalin 's purges The Great Terror , Professor Kuganov 's seminal study of liquidations based on a detailed demographic survey of Russia 's population between 1939 and 1959 and the detailed work done by Professor Richard Walker in a report commissioned by the U S Senate and published in 1971 . |
| 16 | ‘ I met Kay in a nightclub but did my courting in Woolworth 's where she worked , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Boswell dismisses Elgin in a couple of paragraphs , partly though boredom , partly embarrassment at Johnson 's bad meal there ; but again — the invaluable gloss on Johnson 's version — ; Boswell liked the jutting arcades , which he called ‘ piazzas ’ ; he approved of ‘ such structures in a town , on account of their conveniency in wet weather ’ , and then reports Johnson 's dislike of them on account of the way in which they made ‘ the under story of a house very dark , which greatly over-balances the conveniency , when it is considered how small a part of the year it rains . |
| 18 | Twelfth seed Ros Nideffer went out 4–6 6–2 10–8 to US qualifier Katrina Adams in a second round match resumed after being halted overnight at 5–5 in the final set . |
| 19 | Where she scores is when she manages something which is different , such as the haunting ‘ Sleeping Satellite ’ , otherwise the rest of the album is so much Bryan Adams in a skirt . |
| 20 | Using computer-controlled equipment , the project will study the use of CSPs in a cross-section of the Cambridge population from both an acoustic and an articulatory point of view . |
| 21 | But the biggest cheer was reserved for old Desert Orchid , who led a parade of former champions and then trounced Grand National hero Mr Frisk in a fun run . |
| 22 | Whether that will still be the case come the annual summer meeting on June 25 if England lose badly against Brazil and then against Germany in Detroit in a week 's time must be debatable . |
| 23 | Leicester abolitionists regarded all of this as ‘ classed with the most established maxims of political economy ’ while Josiah Conder in a pamphlet bluntly titled Wages or the Whip pointed to what he saw as the disastrous economic effects peculiar to the slave system — exhaustion of the soil , no change in crops cultivated , little rotation , lack of use of livestock and a low level of technology . |
| 24 | One adverse critic of Dustin 's performance was the young and eccentric English actor Victor Henry , who , on seeing Dustin in a bar after the show , emptied a glass of beer over his head . |
| 25 | ‘ The enemy ? ’ supplied Meredith in a whisper , her face drained of colour . |
| 26 | Dan Gurney in a Chevrolet Impala versus Graham Hill in a Lotus Cortina in the 1964 British Saloon Car Championship . |
| 27 | It was as if some artistic giant at the making of the world had arranged it — with the perfect placing of Buda Hill in a curve of the Danube on an otherwise flat landscape . |
| 28 | He also encounters his arch enemy Professor Moriarty in a mystery which involves a kidnapped child and returning stolen gold to the world exchange , thereby preventing an economic crisis and a world war . |
| 29 | They found Inspector Leeming in a boxcar on the outskirts of Tobolsk . |
| 30 | The ‘ Chorus of the Years ’ from Part Third , Act 6 was described by Hardy in a letter to Edward Clodd as being the ‘ most original ’ page in the book . |