Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | defendant acquiescing in a plaintiffs inexcusable , inordinate and prejudicial delay in prosecuting an action was thereby debarred from having it dismissed for want of prosecution . |
| 2 | But shortly afterwards he saw his injured girlfriend slumped in a police car nearby . |
| 3 | Lettuce trapped in an algae scraper will feed vegetarian fish . |
| 4 | In 1927–28 , the Cambridge and Ipswich Tutorial Classes in Biology participated in a six-talks broadcast on The Problems of Heredity given by Mary Adams , then tutor to the Cambridge branch . |
| 5 | Another Mitchell got his nickname for always having his head stuck in a boys annual of the twenties — he became known as " Pill Box Annual " but this eventually was shortened to Annal Mitchell , by which he is still known . |
| 6 | The Test and County Cricket Board hand-out rose in an Ashes summer from £338,000 to a new high of £473,000 ; and Lancashire 's successful season on the field , fourth in the championship and winners of the Refuge Assurance League , almost doubled match income . |
| 7 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
| 8 | They 're notorious ; the father died in a fisticuffs battle . |
| 9 | That sounds like something that they might have at the end of term or something done by an adult working in a steelworks . |
| 10 | If she was an innocent abroad , her parents considered that a life cocooned in an all-girls school was hardly adequate preparation for the bright lights of the big city . |
| 11 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
| 12 | A MAN injured in a police shoot-out was last night in hospital with chest wounds while police pieced together the tangled events of a night of violence that also left one man dead and three policemen injured . |
| 13 | And he was the second Bristol joyrider to die in a police chase this week . |
| 14 | With five minutes to go , it looked like a Haslemere win , but an error in the lineout call resulted in a Mariners try which was converted , giving them a 22–13 lead . |
| 15 | So if you are owed money by a company involved in a members ' voluntary liquidation the chances that you will get all you are owed are good . |
| 16 | ‘ And why is a duke 's brother living in an alms house while his wife runs an art gallery in another ? ’ |
| 17 | It was ‘ good television ’ and there were virtually no production costs in a sports broadcast in comparison with making a play or a documentary feature . |