Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 2 | ‘ War starts at midnight ’ screams the bald-headed general when his steam bath is interrupted by a plucky Home Guard soldier who has launched a premature start to a military exercise . |
| 3 | We bring the Guinness Spot to a close with a local musician who has had a long and distinguished career in the country and blues divisions of rock . |
| 4 | as if 24-17 and derisive chants of ‘ Easy , easy ’ were not bad enough , this humiliation was against a side who have made a wretched start to the season — a week earlier Pontypool had given them a 35-6 going-over — and were short of at least half-a-dozen first-choice players . |
| 5 | ‘ You think there 's someone on the Moslem side who 's got an interest in keeping things on the boil ? ’ asked Georgiades . |
| 6 | This course should persuade a defendant who has raised a spurious latent defect defence to drop it : on the other hand , if such defence prevails , the plaintiff will have a valid claim against the producer . |
| 7 | Order 29 , r17 provides for adjustment at trial between a defendant who has made an interim payment and his co-defendants who are found liable to the plaintiff . |
| 8 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 9 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 10 | A warrant may be issued for the arrest of any witness who fails to answer a witness summons provided the court is satisfied on oath that : ( i ) he is a material witness ; ( ii ) he has been served with the summons ; ( iii ) conduct money has been paid or tendered ; and ( iv ) there is no just cause for failure to attend ( MCA 1980 , s97(3) ) . |
| 11 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 12 | I did n't see anything inevitable about an affair with a priest who had taken a vow of celibacy . |
| 13 | There was a conflict between the role and the man , between the priest who wanted to lead a hidden life and the public persona who worked within a regime of absolute power which he faithfully served while understanding the need to revolt against it . |
| 14 | A journalist who had hitched a lift was killed , Fitzroy Maclean ended up in hospital for three months and Randolph Churchill had to be invalided back to England with a back injury . |
| 15 | The harshest comment comes from an illiterate Yorkshire collier who had suffered a bitter , loveless childhood , tormented by a cruel brother . |
| 16 | A sound lawyer who has found a seat in chambers on the common law side can expect at least some work . |
| 17 | One narrator who temporarily takes over from Stencil is Fausto Maijstral , a Maltese poet who has kept a record of the German siege of the island during the last world war . |
| 18 | Its main ideologist is Boris Kagarlitsky , a young Marxist who has written a number of books that have been published abroad but not yet in the USSR . |
| 19 | It is important to appreciate that this rule operates in conjunction with the obligation to produce a list of witnesses and that , in particular , the defender who chooses to instruct an expert either to examine equipment or to examine the pursuer will require to include his name on the list of witnesses as well as exchanging his Report . |
| 20 | In 1971 a military coup brought in General Tren Son Taim ( a Taiwanese refugee who had led a tiny fascist force on the islands during the Second World War ) , and Washington lifted the trade embargo . |
| 21 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 22 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 23 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 24 | His houses are always monuments of excellent craftsmanship , but as one eighteenth-century critic who had seen a number of them observed , although ‘ all of them [ are ] convenient and handsome … there is a great sameness in the plans , which proves he had but little invention ’ . |
| 25 | The plot , insofar as one could discern it , was both labyrinthine and self-cancellingly ambiguous , built round an interview in a psychiatric hospital between a journalist and the grief-obsessed widow of a German professor who had bequeathed a videotape casting doubt on the official version of Hess 's death . |
| 26 | The President of Global Motors ( UK ) employs hit-men to eliminate a spastic professor who has invented an environmentally harmless engine that runs on hydrogen . |
| 27 | For the first time in his life , Peter found her pitiful , a tiny figure who had made a cage of her routines and spent her life staring through the bars at the glorious unpredictability of the world outside . |
| 28 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 29 | It is a view from the terraces written by a fan who has spent a lifetime supporting two of the world 's great lost causes , the Scotland national team and St Johnstone FC . |
| 30 | In Cocks v. Thanet DC the House of Lords applied this rule and held that an applicant who wanted to challenge a decision of a local authority to the effect that he was intentionally homeless and so not entitled to be housed , had to use AJR procedure because his only rights in respect of the decision were public law rights , namely that the decision would be made in accordance with rules of public law . |