Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
| 2 | Anne came back with cigarettes and chocolate and magazines and said goodbye to Terry , then she said she would wait for Sarah at the entrance and left them together . |
| 3 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
| 4 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 5 | According to Air Vice Marshall Peter Howard , who is in charge of selecting the astronaut , the Soviets can choose four ‘ finalists ’ but the British then decide on the two people who will leave for Moscow at the beginning of December . |
| 6 | Kevin Sheedy is the only other member of the Newcastle team with experience of third-class English League football ; he played for Hereford as a 17-year-old before joining Liverpool . |
| 7 | We cycled down through Vigo to the port , where we jostled with the locals to get the bikes aboard a ferry across the Ria de Vigo to Cangas on the Peninsula de Morazo , before cycling to the little sleepy fishing village of Bueu , which was quiet and unspoilt . |
| 8 | No , I 'm going to fill in for Jim on the Canal project . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Hearing about Clydebank on the radio , ’ replied Fireman Bill , blowing out a cloud of smoke that would have done credit to the Queen Mary . |
| 10 | The news that ‘ for the time being ’ they can only go to or through Czechoslovakia with a visa , left East Germans stunned . |
| 11 | There is a famous story of Nilsson arriving at a rehearsal of his Metropolitan Ring as Brünnhilde with a miner 's lamp on her head : the conductor was well spotlit , but no one could see what was happening on stage . |
| 12 | The name Grisedale , meaning ‘ the valley of the pigs ’ is consistently spelt wrongly as Grisdale by the Ordnance Survey . |
| 13 | The Director is also Commissioner for Mines , and vice-chairman and national representative for Vanuatu in the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission ( SOPAC ) . |
| 14 | HSC , a joint venture between DSM of the Netherlands and Tosoh of Japan , plans to spend $60m ( £33m ) to quadruple its present aspartame capacity to 2000 t pa by the end of 1993 in an attempt to capture a larger percentage of the fast growing aspartame market . |
| 15 | Levin makes a special case for Debord as a film-maker whose aim was to contribute to the ultimate destruction of cinema as a spectacularist medium . |
| 16 | Talks continued during March between the government and trade unions , against a background of escalating protests . |
| 17 | Negotiations during March with a delegation led by the deputy commander of Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) armed forces , Col.-Gen . |
| 18 | The US Congress had since early 1990 withheld $84,000,000 of aid for Panama pending the signing of an agreement . |
| 19 | The old lads had hoped to warm up for Hull with a friendly against Cleveland police the previous week , but most of the constabulary failed to turn up . |
| 20 | Hunt became a national motor racing hero in 1976 when he lifted the world formula one championship driving for McLaren at the age of 28 . |
| 21 | I do n't know anything about Gary as a footballer but he 's got nice legs . |
| 22 | This file is stored as RDBI.DAT in the LIFESPAN process directory ( i.e. where the 59 . |
| 23 | The security apparatus , known as Stasi by the people who feared it , is on its last legs after 39 years of running agents , snooping on dissidents and harassing critics of the ruling Communist party . |
| 24 | Although this potential does exist , actual examples of abuse of parent power through PTAs in the quarter of a century or so since the publication of the report are few and far between . |
| 25 | We need some more meat for Ben from the pet shop . |
| 26 | and then he kept , he was on , will you come and work for me will you come , I was working for Holmes at the time |
| 27 | ADRIAN DAVIES , Cambridge Blue and Welsh International fly-half , made his debut for CARDIFF in the Schweppes Cup win over Pencoed . |
| 28 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 29 | Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail . |
| 30 | When the crowd sang Flower Of Scotland deep into the final quarter of the match , Hastings responded with a brilliant diagonal run off a dummy scissors which would have brought a try for Reed in the corner but for courageous defending from Davies . |