Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rickey Henderson 's nerveless brilliance between the bases helped the Athletics beat the Blue Jays 6-3 in Oakland and earn a 2-0 lead in the American League play-off series . |
| 2 | Jones was handed the biggest fine in FA history on Tuesday and given a suspended six-month ban for his part in the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ . |
| 3 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 4 | And what 's more , someone who already owns a PRS and needs a comparable spare guitar can now have one . |
| 5 | People in the British colony of Hong Kong could settle in the British colony of the Falklands and form an independent state . |
| 6 | The first is the ‘ Austin Special ’ , drawn up by Ted Newman-Jones in Texas and sporting a six-in-line headstock , three of those shimmery-sounding lipstick-tube pickups and a body that looks like someone left a black Les Paul out to melt in the sun , and the second is our review guitar , the Chandler ‘ 555 ’ . |
| 7 | Mosbacher , 64 , like Bush a native easterner who moved to Texas and made a personal fortune in oil and gas , had served as Bush 's national finance chairman in 1988 and was once again expected to concentrate on financing the campaign . |
| 8 | Stukeley also began enthusiastically landscaping the garden of his house in Barn Hill and devised a formal garden on a concentric circular layout which could have been based on his Stonehenge plan ( see drawing ) . |
| 9 | Then , as the congregation grew , she bought land off Edge Hill and had a fine new church built in 1887 . |
| 10 | Kelly sat in the jockeys ' stand at Sandown and gave a quiet laugh . |
| 11 | Ally Donaldson kicked two penalty goals for Currie and converted a late try by Dean Mack . |
| 12 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 13 | Eddy dangles a very tempting adulterous carrot in front of Richard and suggests a convivial evening of wife swapping . |
| 14 | Convinced that the treaty would undercut German sovereignty by taking away powers from the German parliament , he left Brussels and filed a sweeping complaint claiming that Maastricht damages constitutional guarantees of individual rights and democratic procedure . |
| 15 | Europe has figured large in the past year and I am delighted that Save The Children is among the first of United Kingdom non-governmental organisations to establish an office in Brussels and mount a pan- European operation . |
| 16 | A similar organisation of the Habsburg government , the Geheime Kabinets-Kanzlei , operated not merely in Vienna but in Brussels , Liége , Frankfurt and Regensburg and enjoyed a high reputation for its technical skill . |
| 17 | There was still an amiable air to the action but Cantona showed his commitment when he crashed into substitute Abel and earned a yellow card . |
| 18 | Schafer , who by then was back in the United States and running a military supply business called Minihawks in the Atlanta area . |
| 19 | It has an international appeal , with the introduction — written by Betty Viner and providing a brief history of the subject — written in English , German and French . |
| 20 | ‘ We have no intention of taking a stake in another company , nor is there any other company that wants to take a stake in Siemens Nixdorf and become a dominant partner , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Many individuals stand to do better by leaving SERPS and entering a private pension arrangement into which part of their National Insurance contributions and those of the employer are invested . |
| 22 | Following their disappointing performance against the Dutch on Saturday when they lost 5-1 , England made a number of changes , including dropping captain Richard Leman and introducing a young right-wing triangle of Chris Mayer , Russell Garcia and Rob Hill . |
| 23 | Government minister Robert Freeman now had a meeting with Roberts and promised a new inquiry . |
| 24 | I had a clerk in St Paul 's write it out , then stood by Aldgate and bribed a royal messenger , carrying the white wand and wearing the royal gold-and-blue surcoat , who was travelling to King 's Lynn , to leave the message with Master Daunbey . |
| 25 | Eventually , he settled in East Dulwich and opened a small grocer 's shop . |
| 26 | The UK company was founded in 1932 at Warwick and had a dual function for LDP . |
| 27 | Lutyens was brought up at Thursley in Surrey and developed a great love for that county 's local styles and materials , although he also built in the grandest of manners . |
| 28 | Proceedings were commenced against Volkswagen of America ( VWoA ) , a New Jersey corporation which did business in Illinois and had a registered address for service there . |
| 29 | Fly from London to Seattle and board a connecting flight to Anchorage . |
| 30 | In June 1982 Israel 's invasion of Lebanon provided an opportunity to destroy the PLO and mould a new Lebanese state free of Syrian , Palestinian and Soviet influence and by implication dependent on the United States . |