Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already I had put in a formal application to Gladstone Murray for a producer 's post with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , and Ernie Bushnell suggested I submit a programme script for consideration . |
| 2 | On that afternoon of Tuesday , 31 August , McQueen 's daughter served them tea ; she wore a print linen dress , and had been to Inverness for a year 's education in reading , writing , sewing , knotting , lace- and pastry-making . |
| 3 | Border regained the Aussie captaincy from opening batsman Mark Taylor after a fortnight 's lay-off with a hamstring injury . |
| 4 | Scott for a farmers ' forum at Stockton Cricket Club on Thursday . |
| 5 | Er to let you know that your Labour members of parliament in Nottinghamshire as a whole er are backing the campaign . |
| 6 | IAN McKIM , former schools and youth international back row forward , has rejoined NEWPORT from CARDIFF — and gets a trip to Tenerife for a week 's warm weather training with the Black-and-Ambers . |
| 7 | Gazza after a doctor 's inquiry into why he has become the ‘ fat boy ’ of soccer |
| 8 | Whether that will still be the case come the annual summer meeting on June 25 if England lose badly against Brazil and then against Germany in Detroit in a week 's time must be debatable . |
| 9 | He pioneered the historiographic use of ephemera in Gleanings from a Printer 's File , 1928 . |
| 10 | Duff will thus be on dual business in the United States in a fortnight 's time . |
| 11 | ‘ Bosch 's Garden of Delights meets Picasso 's Guernica in a pointillism cum blood-splatter style . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll still be King of Ruritania in a year 's time . ’ |
| 13 | The national selectors indicated before England 's unexpected success in the HDM international tournament at The Hague that they wanted to test other members of their squad before the team is announced for the first official internationals of the season , the Four Nation tournament at Crystal Palace in a month 's time . |
| 14 | The Southern trials will be at Crystal Palace in a week 's time , with the final trials also at Crystal Palace in December . |
| 15 | The category award winners ranged from a housing co-operative in Dundee to a children 's play area in an Essex village . |
| 16 | That would give a peak throughput of 3.6 GFLOPS on a maximum 16,384-CPU configuration costing $1.2m . |
| 17 | MARK ROBSON , the winger signed by Tottenham from Exeter for £50,000 in July 1987 , has signed for Watford on a month 's loan with a view to a permanent transfer . |
| 18 | The youth is accused of the shotgun killing of legal clerk Amaranath Bandaratilleke at a newsagent 's shop in Hammersmith , west London , on February 22 . |
| 19 | Recently he took wife Karron across the Atlantic on Concorde for a day 's shopping in New York in a white Rolls Royce . |
| 20 | If you can pack up and go on Tuesday August 11 , you can dash off to Spain for a week 's bed and breakfast in a two-star hotel for as little as £229 . |
| 21 | Unlike the rest of Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ court ’ , he had survived her downfall , and John Major claimed to have taken Crow with him when he flew to Spain for a week 's holiday . |
| 22 | The Galerie Hopkins–Thomas , which had one of the best selections , including an early Van Gogh of a Blacksmith 's Apprentice at a rather hefty £100,000 , a Gustave Moreau watercolour , I'Ibis Rose , at an even heftier £600,000 , and a Schiele portrait of a woman at £200,000 . |
| 23 | He said it was not easy to come to Cork with a favourite 's tag and play against a posse of cuemen he had grown up with and played so often in amateur competition . |
| 24 | Not that they really needed it , as the chance of Triple Crown against England in a fortnight 's time duly materialised . |
| 25 | Indeed , with little Serevi masterminding their operations , they have opened up such a lead in this version of the game that the world sevens championship , which will be held in Scotland in a year 's time , could turn out to be distinctly one-sided if the countries at this end of the world do not get their act together very rapidly indeed . |
| 26 | — Maxine Barrie , the Shirley Bassey lookalike who came out on top in the Granada TV Stars In Your Eyes programme , is appearing tonight at the Shotton Hall Banqueting Suite , Peterlee in a Valentine 's Night Special . |
| 27 | Of course , token gestures often suffice to land unknown quantities from obscurity — Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino joined Gillingham from a boys ' club in Crockenhill for the cost of a new set of playing strips . |
| 28 | County have agreed to take Plymouth striker Robbie Turner on a month 's loan with defender Richard Dryen moving the other way . |
| 29 | They were painters , perhaps , or poets , perhaps , casual acquaintances picked up by friendly Sebastian at a publisher 's party in Bedford Square . |
| 30 | The ‘ Alberto Aringhieri ’ , on the other hand , was later sold by Berenson at a Christie 's sale in London . |