Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If somebody entered the National Gallery and defaced a Gainsborough they would be prosecuted . |
| 2 | Cumbria branch celebrated World Day of Architecture and held a LEGO competition for children . |
| 3 | She said the self-styled ‘ mother of the nation ’ was ‘ drunk , in a foul mood and brandishing a Makarov pistol . |
| 4 | The twin events in Sudbury follow earlier appointments in Bury St Edmunds where the Princess opens the St Nicholas Hospice and visits a St Matthew Society conference . |
| 5 | Someone went to a car-rental firm in North Oxford in the early afternoon and hired a Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 6 | In July he was in a nursing home where Rupert Hart-Davis found him reading a detective story and studying a Penguin book of crossword puzzles — he was " in excellent spirits but his breathing was bad " . |
| 7 | And when they surfaced for air , she poured champagne and slipped a Mickey Finn into Kattina 's glass . |
| 8 | The HMS seems to have become popular recently with Wild Country also taking a look and producing a mini-HMS . |
| 9 | Clinton had risen from impoverished childhood in Hope , Arkansas , to work his way through Georgetown University and hold a Rhodes scholarship ; he became the nation 's youngest sitting governor at 32 in 1979 . |
| 10 | Cohen ( 1972 ) presented the Posner task to the left or right visual field and found a RVF superiority for NI matches and a LVF superiority for PI matches , as did Geffen , Bradshaw and Nettleton ( 1972 ) . |
| 11 | Ken Tyrell , head of Tyrell Racing Organisation , forms a Members ' Action Group and calls a June EGM . |
| 12 | The London conference decisions of June 1948 to elect a Constituent Assembly and devise a West German constitution provoked a sharp Soviet protest , in the form of the Berlin blockade . |
| 13 | They recommended the Surgicentre and said a Thursday operation would ensure results by next Tuesday . |
| 14 | Do I have to wear a cheap suit and drive a Sierra to get invited . |
| 15 | And Asif Iqbal , who played extensive first-class cricket in his home country , India , before crossing the border and becoming a Pakistan Test star , was also stunned by the omission of Gower . |
| 16 | Isobel works in the Spinning Shed and operates a Mackie Flyer , twisting together single strands to make a doubled or ‘ folded ’ yarn . |
| 17 | So she knew that before being coaxed into motor racing at the belated age of thirty Vitor had qualified as an architect and gained a Harvard business degree . |
| 18 | The Arsenal equaliser came in the 82nd minute and denied a Norwich side that had taken the lead after 36 minutes when Ruel Fox scored his first goal for six months . |
| 19 | He looked again at the menu and chose a Dom Perignon . |
| 20 | Montague 's brother chose to ignore the request and commissioned a Mr Rowland , surgeon , to perform the task for £2 , assisted by two other surgeons at twelve shillings a piece ; there was a further outlay of ten shillings for ‘ a woman to attend the surgeons with water , mops , cloths and other things ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Next year will be hard work -but perhaps the year after that I 'll get the chance to break away to a Greek isle and do a Shirley Valentine … ‘ |
| 22 | After she hangs up on Mark , Martha takes a deep breath and dials a London number . |
| 23 | He also impounded Thom 's furniture and had a New Jersey warrant for his arrest issued , ’ says Wendy . |
| 24 | I was fighting back against the cancer by diet , relaxation , visualization and hugging a Populus alba , but I needed even more . |
| 25 | The idea of having a rapper and using a James Brown melody line as your hook was done a long , long time ago — by us ! |
| 26 | James Spader , who took the role of Miss Shield 's brother in the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli film Endless Love and won a Cannes Film Festival award for his part in Sex , Lies and Videotape , will also star . |
| 27 | You left the cinema your hand in your pocket clutching a non-existent ‘ rod ’ , you went rat a tat tat Chicago piano machine gun style and did a James Cagney hoodlum staggering along the pavement with your hands to your chest until you collapsed into a doorway mown down by gangsters ' bullets crying for Pat O'Brien or Joan Blondell to take the message to ma . |
| 28 | I rang the number and got a Mrs. Candy . |
| 29 | The Bees missed a penalty and had a Marcus Gayle goal disallowed , while the Tranmere winner looked suspiciously off-side . |
| 30 | Clinical remission was considered when a patient fulfilled the criteria of improvement and had a VHAI <120 . |