Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Gooser represents Paddy Mullins who ten years ago was something of an Aintree specialist .
2 The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library .
3 The only truly representative delegation was that of the United States whose five delegates had been chosen earlier that year at a convention in Cincinnati .
4 Worthington 's promotion to captain is the only good news this week for his club Sheffield Wednesday whose four England representatives — Andy Sinton , Chris Woods , Des Walker and Carlton Palmer — were all left out of the side to face Poland .
5 Barry Pexton 45 , a former dog handler in the Sultan of Brunei 's army , and his wife Carol , 38 , left their rented home , West End Cottage , Staxton , near Scarborough , last Wednesday telling their two daughters they were going for a drink .
6 Kidney patient and senior registrar at South Cleveland hospital , Dr Marion Stevens who three years ago could barely move due to her illness is becoming medical director of Teesside Hospice partly due to her work on the new drug which changed her life .
7 The decision is regretted , particularly by Fitzgerald Lighting whose three year link with the Bodmin and Wenford Railway had been a major boost to the embryonic steam line 's fortunes .
8 In Manchester a similar service was offered by Support in Debt founded , also in 1987 , by Stuart Giles who three years later was appealing for £500,000 to keep it going .
9 How does one compare the class work of a teacher in Tunbridge Wells whose five year olds all come from homes where books are common , to that of a teacher in a multiracial school in St Paul 's , Bristol ?
10 With me in the studio is journalist , Dorothy Grace Elder who sixteen months ago weighed in at fourteen and a half and was perfectly happy with it .
11 It was Balvinder Singh who one day in late January suddenly announced , quite unprompted , that he would not be on duty on Sunday as he and his father Punjab Singh were going to watch what he called a ‘ bird challenge ’ .
12 Opposite Ymor the second greatest thief in Ankh-Morpork half-closed his one eye and shrugged .
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