Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr . |
| 2 | Tait told her that some of the information about Mills involved a KGB agent , whom he called ‘ Nikolai ’ for lack of anything better . |
| 3 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 4 | David became a Sunday Times colour magazine figure almost as soon as he received his gold medal at the Royal College dressed in a gold lame jacket with a gold lame shopping bag . ’ |
| 5 | In June 1936 the Danzig SA attacked a DVNP meeting , and in the brawl that followed one of their men died . |
| 6 | Bobby became a Halifax Town apprentice from school . |
| 7 | And though Paine designed a London house for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh , there is nothing else to connect him with Uppark , which he mentions nowhere in his thoroughly documented account of his own works . |
| 8 | After just six minutes , Kevin Scott crashed a Kevin Sheedy free kick against the bar . |
| 9 | As Valère , Alex Hardy exhibits a Basil Fawlty brand of obsequious contempt for his master . |
| 10 | US senator Daniel Moynihan told a US Senate foreign relations subcommittee hearing on Sept. 13 that Ne Win was " nothing more than an Asian Noriega " , a reference to the then Panamanian leader , Gen. Manuel Noriega , whom the US government accused of involvement in the illegal drugs business . |
| 11 | Four of these companies are quoted separately from CB on the Paris Bourse ( CB received a London listing in 1973 ) : UCB ( 33 per cent owned by CB , in housing and property finance ) , UFB Locabail ( 66.2 per cent , business equipment finance ) , Cetelem ( 67.7 per cent , consumer finance ) , and Cardif ( 56 per cent , life insurance and savings products ) . |
| 12 | Remember the riot that broke out at Leeds towards the end of the 1970-71 season when Ray Tinkler allowed a West Bromwich goal to stand , ruling that Colin Suggett , standing offside when the attack crossed the halfway line , had not been interfering with play . |
| 13 | On matching paper with a cartoon of Snoopy wearing a Harvard T-shirt , was written : |
| 14 | With injured skipper Martin Stoker hurling advice from the touchline , Haslemere made his day when Baynard netted a Stokes cross five minutes from time . |
| 15 | Mark Irwin converted a McCullough cross for goal No 8 on the hour and , within 60 seconds , Neil Cooke , with a penalty corner conversion , completed the scoring and his hat-trick . |
| 16 | Petersfield Rugby Club are helping Mrs. Bulmer organise a May Ball as a fund-raising event , and it will take place in a specially erected marquee at Penns Place adjacent to the club on May 1st . |
| 17 | Shrews keeper Steve Perks pushed a Mick Tait piledriver round the post after only eight minutes , and then the keeper got down well to make an identical save from a left foot shot by Steve Gaughan . |
| 18 | Auerbach had previously heard Minton give a Sketch-Club criticism at St Martin 's School of Art . |
| 19 | On Jan. 10 Lewandowski told a Sejm committee assessing his candidacy for the post of Minister of Ownership Transformations that the performance of the share offer indicated that a different approach to privatization was needed , and he said that he favoured distributing to all Polish citizens free vouchers to be exchanged for shares . |
| 20 | STEVE COPPELL is tipping £1 million striker Chris Armstrong to lead a Selhurst Park revival . |
| 21 | Mr Blair told a Westminster news conference that the Government should start consultations on more secure units and on care and support for young offenders . |
| 22 | He had been trying to find somewhere to park in London 's West End , Keith Hylton told a Marlborough Street magistrate through an interpreter . |
| 23 | The United Kingdom had consistently expressed reservations over intervention , in contrast to the stance of the USA which called for preventive bombardment of Serb positions ; however , on Dec. 20 outgoing US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister John Major agreed in Washington to support a UN resolution enforcing the flight ban . |
| 24 | Skil offers a TCT blade as standard with the 1865U . |
| 25 | Wearside motor group Cowies sold a Sheffield office block for £7.5m . |
| 26 | In The Favour , The Watch And The Very Big Fish Bob Hoskins plays a Paris photographer of religious themes who has to find a model for Christ on the cross and comes up with Jeff Goldblum , an ex-convict and former lover of an actress ( Natasha Richardson ) , who he meets at a pornographic dubbing studio . |
| 27 | Not entirely sober one evening in 1832 , Turner entered a Preston temperance meeting for a joke but came out converted . |
| 28 | MPs Menzies Campbell and Nicholas Fairbairn support a Commons motion to be put down tonight . |
| 29 | Alan uses a Yamaha 250cc Trials Bike which he has modified himself . |
| 30 | Mrs Winterton told a Westminster news conference : ‘ This material is not mild erotica . |