Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David as a child peoples his neighbourhood with its scenes and characters , including Gamaliel Pickle , Peregrine 's father , Commodore Trunnion , and Tom Pipes ; its story is the first of those he recounts to Steerforth at Salem House , DC 4 , 7 . |
| 2 | The engine ran successfully non-stop from Tywyn to Nant Gwernol with a TRPS members ' special before it was taken out of traffic . |
| 3 | Best Roman Coin — Mick Seager with a silver denari of Plautilla . |
| 4 | THE man John Cleese once called an ‘ ignorant upstart caterer ’ has celebrated his first anniversary as boss of Granada with a 129% profits increase to £130.2m . |
| 5 | you can go over to Africa on a day trips from down there , but you have to have a full passport you ca n't |
| 6 | His latest theatre has included Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Nights Dream and the fascinating double Hugo/Frederick in Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon at the open air theatre in Regent 's park , London . |
| 7 | Sharon with a B.A. Hons. in Textiles from Galashiels , previously worked for Courtaulds Automotive Textiles for three years . |
| 8 | After a low-key opening day , the Aberdeen tournament burst into life on finals night when Alison Bowie beat Emma Donaldson in a five-game women 's final , and then Peter Nicol inflicted defeat on Mark Maclean in the men 's decider that also went the full distance . |
| 9 | Dr Ian Rolfe , then of the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow snapped him up as supervisor of YOPs on a Manpower Services scheme to develop fossils in rock which had been excavated in Australia in the 1960s . |
| 10 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
| 11 | Wyman , 56 , admitted he was immediately besotted when he spotted willowy Mandy at a rock awards ceremony in London 's Lyceum ballroom . |
| 12 | She had been working in Poole as a trading standards officer and has moved to London to earn more money to pay for the venture . |