Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he and Charlie would spend a Saturday afternoon playing a George Formby record again and again until they 'd got all the words of ‘ I 'm Leaning on a Lamppost ’ or ‘ Chinese Laundry Blues ’ . |
| 2 | Pile-up rep gets a Skoda |
| 3 | Other aircraft selling included a Boeing Stearman PT-17 450hp conversion , $ 75,000 ; North American SNJ-5 Dress Blues with an R-1340 and a three-bladed prop fetched $ 137,000 . |
| 4 | This standard feature makes it very difficult for a car thief to steal a Clio and falsify its identity . |
| 5 | LAND OF FUN : ‘ In The Basement ’ ( EMI ) previously on Police Records , this Detroit crew got a UK release for their under-the-floor filler — out now |
| 6 | I am thinking of reverse-flow undergravel filtration using a Fluval 303 or 403 , filled with ceramic prefilter , carbon , and foam block or filter wool . |
| 7 | Field equipment includes a Turner 's field fluorometer , a Livingstone corer , rubber dinghy , autosamplers , data loggers , stage recorders , a rainfall simulator , an EDM and other items of surveying equipment . |
| 8 | Every two years the Medau College holds a Whitsuntide course for Medau teachers and I always find it most stimulating to renew contact with our German colleagues . |
| 9 | A report in the Liverpool Daily Post quoted a Birmingham City Council member as saying that it was necessary to control fox numbers ‘ on public health grounds ’ . |
| 10 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
| 11 | TORIES have broken council policy to meet a South African delegation on a fact-finding mission to Darlington . |
| 12 | These are millions of light years away from both the Solar System and here , yet a week before , a freighter captain saw a Dalek space ship very close to this world — Kembel . |
| 13 | The Mercosur treaty to form a South American Common market with , initially , Brazil , Uruguay and Paraguay was signed in March 1991 [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 14 | Goalkeeper Alan Main fumbled a Glynn Snodin corner and , in the process , allowed Baird to scramble home his tenth goal of the season after John Robertson had failed to connect when he got first bite at the cherry . |
| 15 | Liam McNamara ( a North Shore surfer riding a Willis Phazer ) took off on the first , followed by Tony Moniz ( another local ) on the second and Carroll on the third . |
| 16 | When the home country joins a CU whose external tariff is identical to that of the home country prior to participation in the union , domestic production falls to OB but domestic consumption rises to OE . |
| 17 | Just a few months ago the Queen Mother wore a Hartnell creation to the wedding of Lady Helen Windsor . |
| 18 | Total biopsy specimens protein content was estimated at the end of the incubation period using a Lowry method 1 2 after ultrasonication ( 4×15 second bursts with an MSE ( MSE Instuments , Crawley , UK ) ultrasonicator at maximum power setting ) . |
| 19 | Alan Parfitt of the Henley group ran a WWF Trading Stand and the event was so successful that Col. and Mrs Travers plan to hold another Garden party on Thursday , 31st May 1990 . |
| 20 | It was a plaintiff in the landmark 1969 US Court of Appeals decision to deny a Mississippi television station license renewal because of racial discrimination in its programming . |
| 21 | The new gearbox , 57III504 , had to be fitted with the 4 x 2 bell housing to mate to the 2.2 BMC diesel engine using a Phillips conversion kit . |
| 22 | If , for example , a UK Courtaulds business supplies a UK customer , VAT has to be charged . |
| 23 | The BAeSema Ltd joint venture of British Aerospace Plc and Sema Group Plc won a UK Ministry of Defence contract to equip five frigates with command systems : no price was given but a source told Reuter that it was about £30m . |
| 24 | Time for a canter : riders from North Wheddon Farm enjoy a Somerset setting . |
| 25 | Saatchi and Saatchi , the world 's largest advertising agency , claim that the French business executive driving a BMW car , flying TWA , wearing Italian clothes and banking with Citibank has more in common with an American counterpart leading the same lifestyle than with a Parisian neighbour who drives a moped and works on the Metro as a cleaner . |
| 26 | Her Ford Escort hit a Nissan Micra which swerved into her path from the other side of the road . |
| 27 | Also yesterday , North West Water bought a US firm , Consolidated Electric Company , which makes equipment for water and waste-water plants and pumping stations , as part of its efforts to diversify . |
| 28 | Barnsley always looked threatening on the aerial front and they made it count when Brendan O'Connell arrived at the back post to bury a Wayne Biggins cross with a power header . |
| 29 | Colwyn Bay held a PoC Week exhibition in their local library . |
| 30 | A UK company has a US parent , which often instructs it to look at possible acquisitions around the world . |