Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His three years in the wilderness climaxed with a solid part in a BBC costume drama series . |
| 2 | Everyone suffered from that daily and prolonged exposure to a Baldersdale winter — swollen faces and aching joints were commonplace . |
| 3 | The terse Latin of a Cambridgeshire assize role records how , in the fourteenth century , a boy went out on stilts after birds ' eggs and was drowned in the heart of the fen . |
| 4 | THE father of a two-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder must wait to learn whether he has won his High Court battle over the controversial closure of a London hospital 's bone marrow transplant unit . |
| 5 | The former Beirut hostage , Brian Keenan , has celebrated a discreet wedding in a Dublin register office . |
| 6 | Later on , in the episode ‘ The Ambush ’ both Inlay and the extermination effect were blended to show the devastating result of a Dalek blaster on full power . |
| 7 | He tries again with a vast seated figure like a Henry Moore , in which a hanging valley forms a kind of lap … |
| 8 | I was sitting on the top deck of a London bus when the news travelled from passenger to passenger : ‘ The president of the United States has been shot . ’ |
| 9 | He was sitting on the top deck of a London bus when the idea came to him . |
| 10 | The Iranians , too , were making very hopeful noises that improved relations , which must include British support for a UN resolution blaming Iraq for the Iran-Iraq War , would encourage them to help secure our release . |
| 11 | But , as today he had taken the precaution of restraining his crowning glory within a Mothercare bag , he scratched his nose instead . |
| 12 | Even recently a white South African registered surprise on hearing that Nelson Mandela could speak , 40 years on , with fresh enthusiasm of a Neil Harvey innings , 151 at Kingsmead , Durban in 1951 , that Mandela had seen the young Harvey score . |
| 13 | The Markov methods represent the bottom-up approach , and they model English text as a Markov process which allows transition probabilities to be assigned to various letter combinations or n-grams . |
| 14 | He decided to try his hand in racing and in June 1956 the skills of Jim Clark were first seen at Crimond Airfield , near Aberdeen , when he made his racing debut in a DKW Saloon . |
| 15 | , Holbrook ( 1813–1909 ) , chemical manufacturer , was born 5 March 1813 in Wavertree , near Liverpool , the eldest son ( there was also at least one daughter ) of Roger Gaskell , manager of the commercial branch of a Warrington sailcloth firm , and his wife and cousin Anne Hunter . |
| 16 | This demands a studio on a Sunday rather than a rainy , muddy field on a Saturday . |
| 17 | His presence made up her mind for her and she turned , brushing past him and heading towards a newspaper vendor who sat shivering behind his stall at the nearby entrance to a Metro station . |
| 18 | Anyone who is 18 years or older , and who is classified by the Inland Revenue as a UK resident , can open a PEP . |
| 19 | There is a scene in H.G. Wells 's novel Ann Veronica ( 1909 ) , where Ann , the rebellious young woman who has left suburban tedium for a London life as a New Woman and student of biology , discusses Love , in particular , physical love , with a keen Fabian Socialist and Suffragette , Miss Miniver : |
| 20 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 21 | DETECTIVES have raided a house in their hunt for the brutal killer of a Hartlepool man . |
| 22 | The girl from the VW Golf ad was in top gear at a London fashion show where the nominations for British Designer of the Year were announced . |
| 23 | National sovereignty and popular sovereignty in a Europe so wide will require not only more effective national Parliaments but Europewide instruments to express and administer Europe . |
| 24 | STEPHEN Jones indecently assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a Cardiff park after offering to show her a birds ' nest . |
| 25 | And suddenly Morse knew where the body had been launched into the river and into eternity ; knew , too , that if Lucy Downes could so quickly arouse the rather sluggish libido of a Lewis , then it was hardly difficult to guess her effect upon the lively carnality of a Kemp . |
| 26 | Something of an intellectual among surfers , Lynch has a weekly column in a Sydney newspaper and an air of philosophical detachment . |
| 27 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 28 | The legislation 's loose definition of a ‘ British ’ film , as one made by a British company in a British studio using a certain percentage of British crew , could be applied to a picture made by a British subsidiary of a US major , using an American director , writer and key cast . |
| 29 | Many television viewers were alarmed at the Forest boss 's ageing appearance on a BBC interview this week , and Clough admitted yesterday : ‘ My wife , Barbara , has told me that I 've got uglier and older . |
| 30 | Four outstanding papers cover transport regulation ; the future of public transport from a Merseyside perspective ; EC air transport policy ; and a new field for the journal — energy conservation in a road transport operation . |