Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its simplest use , the computer sits in a corner and each child has an individual session with relevant material ; so inevitably only a short time would normally be available . |
| 2 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 3 | Mount Charlotte Investments , the hotel group , offers the opportunity to invest in a stockbroker . |
| 4 | At an earlier hearing , defence solicitor Colin Nott failed in a bid to have the ban lifted , but successfully appealed at the High Court the next day to have the bail condition lifted so his client could see the baby under supervision . |
| 5 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 6 | He said the 51 people flown back from Hong Kong early yesterday had been removed ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory . |
| 7 | Deportations had been , he said , ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory ’ . |
| 8 | The next day police raided the caravan fsite near Oxford and recovered a shot gun cartridge from the remains of a fire , as well as £410 in cash , fround hidden in a cupboard under a pile of towells . |
| 9 | ENGLAND flew to Poland yesterday with reliance placed in a defence that , like Bobby Robson , has shown a talent for confounding the critics . |
| 10 | On this view pragmatics ( at least in part ) is about how , given a sentence uttered in a context , that context plays a role in specifying what proposition the sentence expresses on this occasion of utterance . |
| 11 | Weddings were an excuse to indulge in a complexity of symbols , some of which look like vestiges of atavistic and pagan ceremonies — a whiff of Pan , a nuance of Sleeping Beauty . |
| 12 | Take , for example , the perceptual experience that I have while looking at this bunch of carnations arranged in a vase on the table in the middle of the room . |
| 13 | One fox was caught , too far away for the riders to see in a day of little incident . |
| 14 | No matter how pressed for time or strapped for cash you may be , should you pass by one of these shops , with a window display of dummies wearing neatly ironed kagouls and ice-axes arranged in a fan shape round a rucksack , you will go inside and not leave until you have purchased a pair of thick socks . |
| 15 | Mark Robins bamboozled two defenders to whip in a cross which make-shift striker Rob Newman headed past England keeper Chris Woods . |
| 16 | Unwilling to make an unheralded entrance , Nicandra quivered in a distance of expectancy . |
| 17 | Doctors at the paediatrics department of the University of Vienna heated samples of infant milk formula for 10 minutes in a microwave used for warming baby food and compared it with milk heated in a water bath to 80C . |
| 18 | It appears that he stepped on one of those box mines placed in a gap in a hedgerow . |
| 19 | The whole hill had the appearance almost of a skull , the apertures like teeth exposed in a grin and black with decay . |
| 20 | Katherine Lundy operated in a world where deceit was accepted — indeed , expected , and she survived in this world because she herself had learned her lessons in one of the toughest schools of all — in the fire and revolution of Dublin before the " 16 Rising . |
| 21 | UK corporates might find it attractive at times to borrow in a currency other than sterling ( most commonly US dollars ) through such a programme and fully hedge the proceeds into sterling , hence creating a synthetic SCP . |
| 22 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 23 | The club were accused of making illegal payments to players and more dramatically , Macari was fined £1,000 for his part in a betting scandal after a bet of £6,500 had been placed on Swindon to lose in a cup match against Newcastle . |
| 24 | Winston McLeod , who played soccer for his school , district , London , Middlesex and West Ham United before a strangulated hernia sustained in a tackle in 1972 effectively finished his football career , reflected on his and other blacks ' experiences with teachers : |
| 25 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 26 | Luciani is one of more than 100 prisoners highlighted in a report by the pressure group , Liberty , as being possible victims of miscarriages of injustice . |
| 27 | Frau Nordern asked in a tone of voice which strongly suggested that if he was then he could go and do it somewhere else . |
| 28 | He and his wife remember with pleasure one young man who spent a particularly fine Sunday afternoon reclining in a deckchair with a straw hat over his eyes . |
| 29 | The parliament building sits in a square like the keep of a castle . |
| 30 | Yeah probably I think she 'll always be like it though , cos her mum 's just the same , she 's just like her mum , you know her mum got in a strop every day because she could n't go round , down the |