Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though Stevens still needed Dean for a couple more shots , the young punk put his foot down and tore along Highway 66 at 85 miles an hour , heading for a sports car race at Salinas . |
| 2 | This is a book of a lifetime 's study undertaken on the Ythan Estuary near Aberdeen of a duck that is , in many respect , unusual . |
| 3 | The four-year-old was murdered in the crowded shopping centre of Warrington in a blast that injured scores of people including other children . |
| 4 | Can I ask Mr Donson for a bit more explanation . |
| 5 | ’ There was trouble with Emily Lightbody over a file this afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | He settled in Denver where he worked with Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart in a group that later became known as the World 's Greatest Jazz Band . |
| 7 | They are travelling to play Oulton in a friendly this Saturday to get acclimatised and each player has been given a personal training programme to get ready for three games in three days . |
| 8 | The publication by an LEA of a scheme such as Solihull 's is implicitly intended to signal this newly emphasized responsibility to teachers , to persuade them to accept it and to provide them with an agreed agenda for the review . |
| 9 | As he hit the water , his legs flailed in the mid-air running motion like a character in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and he quickly struck out for a convenient ladder as I hastily brought Venturous to a standstill some feet off the pier . |
| 10 | C. For a country such as Britain , which has most of its people living in towns and working in industry and trade , it is necessary to have good communications ( roads , railways , air transport , ports , post and telephones ) . |
| 11 | It 's golf 's equivalent of Mecca with an atmosphere all of its own , as Dudley Doust finds out . |
| 12 | I must admit , I credited Proby with a bit more sense . |
| 13 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 14 | Contacting White Waltham for a QDM several minutes after he should have intercepted the Burnham VOR 280 degree radial ( and not knowing why he had n't ) produced the instruction to tune Heathrow Radar on 119.9 . |
| 15 | The Chief Rabbit 's lettuce was stolen by the Owsla from a garden half a mile away across the fields . |
| 16 | Souness , anxious to forget last week 's 5-1 hiding at Coventry , would have chosen anyone but White as an adversary this afternoon . |
| 17 | I 'm happy I have Adrien as a team-mate this season , we get on very well together and are helping each other as much as possible . ’ |
| 18 | Show Jackie in a minute all that guff about laughter Michael 's chest he 's got back of his . |