Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 2 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 3 | ALEXANDER Workwear tumbled from a £5.3m profit to a £500,000 pre-tax loss last year , after charging £1½m ( £1.3m ) of exceptional rationalisation costs . |
| 4 | Kolchinsky asked with a frown . |
| 5 | At an earlier hearing , defence solicitor Colin Nott failed in a bid to have the ban lifted , but successfully appealed at the High Court the next day to have the bail condition lifted so his client could see the baby under supervision . |
| 6 | Her car was ploughed into by 19-year-old Howard Sloane , whose Seat Ibiza skidded on a corner , said prosecutor Derek Halbert . |
| 7 | He singled out as the most significant object , a bronze mace 13½ ″ long in the form of the club of Hercules surmounted by a panel of figures in solid relief . |
| 8 | Balcerowicz announced at a meeting of the Interim Committee of the IMF Bank on May 8 , 1990 , that Poland would seek a new agreement with its commercial and government creditors to cut Poland 's debt-servicing obligations by 80 per cent . |
| 9 | Rodney Hampton ran for 138 yards and Jeff Hostetler passed for a pair of touchdowns . |
| 10 | Unwilling to make an unheralded entrance , Nicandra quivered in a distance of expectancy . |
| 11 | Tip-offs by former Stasi officers who had fled to West Germany led to a spate of arrests during 1990 . |
| 12 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 13 | What was he doing ? ’ plump-cheeked Sarah asked through a mouthful of the bread roll she was chomping on . |
| 14 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 15 | Althea Greenan goes on a walkabout around central London galleries |
| 16 | Gerald countered with a question of his own : ‘ Has the Big Chief grilled you yet ? ’ |
| 17 | Ferguson refers to a pub and club session that Norman Whiteside and I had , and that come Friday I could n't train — even though , he said , I was supposed to be playing against Queens Park Rangers . |
| 18 | Katherine Lundy operated in a world where deceit was accepted — indeed , expected , and she survived in this world because she herself had learned her lessons in one of the toughest schools of all — in the fire and revolution of Dublin before the " 16 Rising . |
| 19 | Sunderland asked for a £50,000 facility fee for admission to their match with Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | Luce choked on a retort . |
| 21 | The club were accused of making illegal payments to players and more dramatically , Macari was fined £1,000 for his part in a betting scandal after a bet of £6,500 had been placed on Swindon to lose in a cup match against Newcastle . |
| 22 | And we see the RAF prepare for a flypast to celebrate their seventy fifth anniversary . |
| 23 | With her new role Alison qualified for a company car . |
| 24 | ‘ It was one of those rough days , ’ Cooney admitted with a bruise under his left eye and a shining , tight patch of skin on his very large nose . |
| 25 | ‘ It was one of those rough days , ’ Cooney admitted with a bruise under his left eye and a shining , tight patch of skin on his very large nose . |
| 26 | Frau Nordern asked in a tone of voice which strongly suggested that if he was then he could go and do it somewhere else . |
| 27 | A NIGHTCLUB bouncer accused of murdering Marie Wilks asked for a cloth to clean his car hours after her disappearance , then asked to keep the cloth , a court was told yesterday . |
| 28 | Thus last year , the council of ministers of the EEC agreed to a £20 million research programme in materials , parts of which should boost recycling techniques and produce substitutes for the strategically important metals . |
| 29 | The Manufacturing , Science and Finance union negotiated an agreement last year , for instance , that entitled part-time women working for Norwich Union to benefit from a mortgage subsidy scheme . |
| 30 | Before clearing the suburbs to the west Patrick stopped at a café so that they could have a quick breakfast of delicious brioches and excellent coffee . |