Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester . |
| 2 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 3 | As your parish priest , it is my duty to shield you from any overenthusiasm on the part of visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of a visionary . |
| 4 | The phrasal appositions in , for example , [ 22 ] and [ 12 ] involve a violation of a syntactic pattern in much the same way as the epiphora in [ 24 ] , and would on these grounds be classified as a rhetorical device in a classical account . |
| 5 | The fact that there was a month 's gap between the early part of the hearing and the second part of the hearing is clearly undesirable and , if the justices had had any idea that the case was going to take five days and involve a gap of a month , I imagine they would have ordered the case to be transferred . |
| 6 | ‘ Every time I called him Daddy , it must have been like twisting a knife in a wound , ’ she said , with a shiver . |
| 7 | SELLAFIELD bosses are exposed today as liars after denying a cover-up over a leak at the nuclear plant . |
| 8 | What happens where the police flout the rules , for example by breaching the code or by denying a solicitor in a trivial case or by refusing access on grounds which are manifestly outside the statute and the code ? |
| 9 | Recording quality is once again hardly subtle , but it is far more vivid than the 1962 version once available on EMI ; beware a glitch in the second movement at 1′21″ which causes a fraction of a beat to be lost , possibly in order to edit out a particularly hacking cough . |
| 10 | Mrs Bauwens will seek a retrial of a case that cost £250,000 over seven dramatic days at the High Court . |
| 11 | He moved to Headley with his family last year from London , where he had won a reputation as a campaigner in his community , and set up practice as Jack Warshaw Conservation Architecture and Planning after many years as head of conservation at Wandsworth Council . |
| 12 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 13 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 14 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) on Nov. 4 narrowly won a by-election for a seat in the upper chamber of the Diet for the conservative Aichi prefecture , the home region of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu . |
| 15 | The former detective hero has won a role as a mobster in a new American cop series The Commish . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was asking too much of Oxford , who have not won a game for a month , to exercise the same shrewd control at half-back demonstrated by Farr-Jones and Porta . |
| 17 | ‘ The market in New York is walking a tightrope between a recovery that is too weak and one that is too strong . |
| 18 | There is a strange grafted conjunction between a laburnum and a pink cytisus ( best avoided ) , and a fernery in a secret gully reached by walking a gangplank over a rushing rivulet . |
| 19 | ‘ Sit down , ’ Marc told Sarella curtly when the maid had gone out after depositing a tray on a table between them . |
| 20 | It facilitated Britain 's surprisingly rapid re-emergence as a major capital exporter , and it provided a framework for a major squeeze on the colonies . |
| 21 | The King model of pediplanation provided a framework for an interpretation of the vegetation patterns of the savannas of the southern hemisphere and in a series of papers Cole ( e.g. 1963 ) reviewed the climatic , edaphic and morphologic controls upon the types of savanna vegetation and concluded that the broad vegetation patterns related to the age of landsurfaces as expected from the King pediplanation model . |
| 22 | A FLURRY of takeover rumours together with promise of a breakthrough in the GATT talks provided a kickstart to a dull market going nowhere fast . |
| 23 | Mr. Park , for the taxpayer , argued that there were two alternative approaches to the problem : ( 1 ) the taxpayer provided a service in an overseas territory , say Vancouver , by sub-licensing in Vancouver , or ( 2 ) the taxpayer exploited property assets by sub-licensing rights which were only capable of use in Vancouver . |
| 24 | In Brazil , the Communist party was illegal from 1922 to 1945 , and the abortive Communist-led uprising in 1935 ( see page 41 ) provided a pretext for a comprehensive crackdown on the entire left . |
| 25 | Without doubt giving customers and crew that good feeling , it also provided a photo-opportunity at a recent visitor 's day . |
| 26 | The interest of the rest of the ‘ virtuosi ’ ( as they were known ) was a more general one in the ‘ new philosophy ’ and its aims ; for the fact is that the Royal Society provided a focus for a whole movement of thought . |
| 27 | He was awarded the Griffin Trophy in a ceremony at Torquay , Devon , to mark his achievement which provided a bus for a Sussex school for the physically disabled and around £8,000 for the NFA 's Ron Shirley Memorial Fund . |
| 28 | These provided a forum for an emerging , indigenous West Indian literature . |
| 29 | All right then , how many of your would like to try a session in a flotation tank ? |
| 30 | He also justified the £90,000 initial payment made to Mr Michels : ‘ When a plc — and one widely understood to have at least some problems — needs to attract a high-flier from a perfectly secure position with another plc , a joining fee of this sort is not in the least unusual . ’ |