Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 : |
5 | Former racing driver Stirling Moss said he was absolutely staggered , adding : ‘ I saw him not too long ago and he was exceptionally fit . |
6 | Photographer Melanie Cox makes her living from art portraiture . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | By contrast Burroughs Wellcome sent me a generous supply of6-MP along with some easy-to-follow directions for its administration . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Labour committee chairman Jim Skinner said he would be concerned by any further erosion of rail services . |
11 | With unexpected tenderness Sven Hjerson told her what had happened . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | The man convicted of murdering pregnant housewife Marie Wilkes says he hopes to get bail so he can be set free . |
14 | Then , characteristically , Virgin chairman Richard Branson announced he was undercutting his rivals ' new fares by £10 . |
15 | Reed Consumer Books ' chairman Richard Charkin said he was not surprised by the response from wholesalers . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Sections of the barrier were brought to the inquest and forensic scientist David Price said it had n't been welded together properly . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | New chairman David Mahony said it has been decided to concentrate on its electrical and electronic businesses . |
21 | AMA social services committee chairman Toby Harris said it confirmed the DoH viewed the changes through rose-tinted spectacles . |
22 | 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 . ’ |
23 | Mr Major sent his chief policy adviser Sarah Hogg to represent him at No 11 while he tucked in to shepherd 's pie and Krug champagne at the Archers ' riverside flat . |
24 | Though it ca n't book them until it starts to deliver on November 30 , president Joel Applebaum expects it to be profitable its first fiscal quarter ending February . |
25 | Sadly , it was not only their wilder impulses that were sternly checked but , all too often , ( as clinical psychologist Allan Fromme puts it ) , their ‘ creative imagination , curiosity , intellectual expressiveness , and capacity for enjoyment ’ . |
26 | TODAY managed to get hold of a sample of the record and music critic Gary Leboff said it ‘ showed real star quality ’ . |
27 | LENNOX LEWIS 'S three-fight plan was upset last night when WBC president Jose Sulaiman insisted he makes his first title defence against Tony Tucker . |
28 | Two members of this summer 's Lions squad , Mike Griffiths and Mike Hall , decided to leave Bridgend for Cardiff last week , while the Wales hooker Ian Watkins joined them from Ebbw Vale in August to be followed by Newport 's Wales B wing Damien Griffiths and the Abertillery lock Stuart Nunnerley . |
29 | Former Middlesbrough central defender Gary Pallister said it was an unusual experience to return to Ayresome Park in the opposing side . |
30 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |