Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | If a field manager in , say , Scotland , phones SGB Group headquarters in Mitcham with a personnel query , the Personnel Manager can have a printout of the personal details of all the employees involved while the conversation is taking place . |
2 | Norman met Lester on a Housemartins tour ; out-and-out indie group that expired before James Brown 's Funky Drums became the backbone to every white dance record . |
3 | Seventy-six Romanians who came to Britain for a Pontins holiday are asking for political asylum , they 're among two hundred of their countrymen who arrived at a Pontins camp near Bristol on Sunday for a weeks stay . |
4 | And you worked every second Sunday as a cattle look after the cattle every second Sunday . |
5 | By most measures Meadowell is the worst council estate in Britain , and probably the most notorious since the riots last September , which followed the deaths of joyriders Colin Atkins and Dale Robson in a police chase . |
6 | You 'd be lost here I can tell you angel , especially given you do n't know how to get from Shepherd 's Bush to Hammersmith without a police escort . |
7 | That is one version : another is that Arnoux was using Nguyen as a police spy , a charge that was to be made again and again . |
8 | The Irish Lions selector , Ken Reid , who arrived yesterday in Edinburgh for a selectors meeting , must have been in a reasonably good frame of mind after Saturday 's contest . |
9 | well what in actual fact happened , it 's not easy to get Terry Wogan at a moments notice to come and sit down , what in actual fact happens is that we draw up exactly what it is , that , that he would be saying and what the answer will be , he sees that and it 's totally approved , understandably he 's not gon na put his name to anything that he does n't believe is , is correct and that is how it 's done and |
10 | Christian Vilaseca , 57 — who lives in Paris and heads imports of Jaguars into France — was stopped on the M6 in Lancashire by a police Range Rover after allegedly travelling at 105mph . |