Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 2 | PC World chairman Jan Murray reckons it was only a matter of time before PCs lost their premium product status and started being treated like any other commodity item . |
| 3 | Secretary Jim McDowell says he will still consider players who may not yet have had the chance to come forward for consideration . |
| 4 | An SAR helicopter of the Army Air Corps and an RAF Nimrod began a search , and at 0015 on Friday 9 March William Luckin slipped her mooring with Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell in command . |
| 5 | It is her garden that now absorbs much of C.Z. 's time and it was a logical step for Bowles and photographer Pamela Hanson to use it as a setting for their fashion story ( p 162 ) , highlighting some of the key ideas for the season . |
| 6 | Police committee Chairman Colin Hay said he does n't expect the new man to come up with instant solutions to the problem of rising crime : |
| 7 | Former racing driver Stirling Moss said he was absolutely staggered , adding : ‘ I saw him not too long ago and he was exceptionally fit . |
| 8 | And last night top U.S. military commander General Colin Powell said he expected Western jets to be enforcing the zone within two weeks . |
| 9 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 10 | Photographer Melanie Cox makes her living from art portraiture . |
| 11 | Still , it is early days and there are already whispers of impressive cross-channel interest although clerk of the course William Fullerton insists he is not , as yet , in a position to make any announcements . |
| 12 | Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke said it would be difficult to prove a sufferer , possibly made irrational by the knowledge they would die , infected another person through sex on purpose . |
| 13 | By contrast Burroughs Wellcome sent me a generous supply of6-MP along with some easy-to-follow directions for its administration . |
| 14 | NAM Chairman Roger Bryan felt it was very important to remember every effort made at fund-raising , while at the time the work might have seemed far removed from aviation preservation , this work was incremental in the success of the overall project . |
| 15 | Labour committee chairman Jim Skinner said he would be concerned by any further erosion of rail services . |
| 16 | Peggy van Praagh told me that , even so early , de Valois had said to her ‘ I think he 'll make a choreographer ’ , but she was already trying out several other aspirants , so could not give him immediate chances . |
| 17 | With unexpected tenderness Sven Hjerson told her what had happened . |
| 18 | Mr Justice Ian Kennedy said he wanted to know about arrangements for her supervision over the next two years . |
| 19 | Perhaps the logical extension of this getting undressed for success in this month 's Playboy , in which Sandra 's regular photographer Michel Comte pictures her in various states of undress ‘ with women , with men — nothing very raunchy . |
| 20 | The man convicted of murdering pregnant housewife Marie Wilkes says he hopes to get bail so he can be set free . |
| 21 | Then , characteristically , Virgin chairman Richard Branson announced he was undercutting his rivals ' new fares by £10 . |
| 22 | Reed Consumer Books ' chairman Richard Charkin said he was not surprised by the response from wholesalers . |
| 23 | The Potter whose grandmother employed the second and third kitchenmaids in question was , M. André Simon tells me , Major Matthew Connolly ( father of Mr Cyril Connolly ) ; and with his felicitous evocation of a mid-Victorian country breakfast table and those second and third kitchenmaids pounding away at the ham and tongue for potting he makes a number of points , most relevant of which concerns the kitchenmaids . |
| 24 | Defence counsel Richard Benson said she was part of a syndicate of ten or a dozen young Oxford people who bought amphetamines in bulk to save money . |
| 25 | Several times Miss Havisham ordered me to bring Estella to visit her , and of course I always obeyed . |
| 26 | Sections of the barrier were brought to the inquest and forensic scientist David Price said it had n't been welded together properly . |
| 27 | At the moment , Hillsborough chairman David Richards insists they will not let Hirst go , but it seems United are prepared to step up the pressure to test their nerve . |
| 28 | New chairman David Mahony said it has been decided to concentrate on its electrical and electronic businesses . |
| 29 | AMA social services committee chairman Toby Harris said it confirmed the DoH viewed the changes through rose-tinted spectacles . |
| 30 | And here 's an interesting thing I learned from the Independent on Sunday last weekend : as its correspondent David Lister put it , ‘ An international competition to find the best of the worst new verse has been wound up because poets on both sides of the Atlantic can no longer distinguish between ‘ good bad ’ poetry and ‘ bad good ’ poetry . ’ |