Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Last night at Dundalk however he scored the most important win of his new career when he gave the Crumlin-trained La Greine a superb ride to win the old Sweet Afton Hunter Chase , now called the Tallanstown Chase . |
2 | Maman put down the loaded fork with a sigh and turned to Twomey at the sideboard : " Please give Miss Nicandra a clean plate and help her to some spinach . " |
3 | Neil Webb a little lay-off to Gemmell and on it goes to Black and further still to Crosby . |
4 | At Wester Hailes a small support group was set up in advance of the assessment to advise staff on what would be required of them . |
5 | Primal Scream 's petty pilfering of dance rhythms turned into wholesale hijacking when they gave club deejay Andy Weatherall a cast-off riff to play with and he returned with the seductive bump and grind of ‘ Loaded ’ . |
6 | You will see alongside the Obituaries to Orton Chirwa a small article about the massacre of 300 Sudanese in Juba . |
7 | Nic Bothway a popular winner |
8 | Today , on East Third Street a casual passer-by would notice nothing untoward . |
9 | Mr Sodhi said he intended to give Miss Dixon a final warning but her attitude meant he felt compelled to sack her . |
10 | ‘ I would undertake to pay Miss Kennedy a generous salary and you could refund any capital she may have put in as your partner . |
11 | Motivation for this monumental serial , so the story goes , hailed from Programme Head Huw Weldon who suggested to Verity Lambert and Dennis Spooner a mammoth-length Dalek production because , allegedly , his mother was a great fan of the Daleks . |
12 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
13 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
14 | The 24 lb 7 oz pike on the cover gave Doncaster council worker Andy Tate a terrific battle at a Lincolnshire stillwater after being fooled by a paternostered roach bait . |
15 | There , my darlings , is not Miss Abbott a finer sight by far than that tawdry tinsel fairy you wanted for our tree ? |
16 | The much-maligned Forest 'keeper literally let two points slip away when he handed Andy Clarke a 12th-minute equaliser after Nigel Clough had got his dad 's team off to a flying start . |
17 | Since she hated cinnamon water next only to cod-liver oil it would be a suitable penance for having given Miss Beard a nasty moment . |
18 | They had met once while on holiday , and not only was Dustin Hoffman a great fan of Sting , but he had written a song which they performed together . |
19 | Five per cent would give Chief Buthelezi a good chance of playing a role in the national government . |
20 | Magistrates gave Mrs. White a one-conditional discharge and ordered her to pay the £1,155 compensation to the National Westminster Bank . |
21 | He gave Miss Jarman a sideways look which Jess saw with a little skip of interest , thinking — he 's got her measure ; she wo n't fool him . |
22 | Some British officials Muhammad Reza a weak Playboy " hand in glove with the German Legation " . |
23 | But if schizophrenia made Van Gogh a better painter so the spectrum of writing in the Bible makes it a more reliable testament of the religious life of man . |
24 | A little to the east of Ardnave Loch a round house was excavated , the wall of which lay against the edge of a foundation cut in the dune , was skilfully constructed of upright slabs interspersed with thin dry stone panels of water worn pebbles . |
25 | From south of the walled area comes evidence for metal-working , leather-working , and agricultural processing , represented by two millstones and a cache of cattle and horse bones , while from Normangate Field a single crucible with bronze droplets provides evidence for bronze-working . |
26 | TAKING his coach 's advice earned Alan Exley a dramatic win at the North-Eastern Counties ABA championship finals at Thornaby Pavilion . |
27 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
28 | DAVE BASSETT last night handed Alan McLeary a three-match run to clinch a £450,000 move to Sheffield United . |
29 | BILLY BREMNER : ( Leeds , Hull , Doncaster and Scotland — 1959-81 ) : ‘ He was a hero at Elland Road a long time before I came into football . |
30 | She moved into North Yorkshire a few weeks ago from Mulhous Zoo in France with everyone believing her to be one of only eight Lears Macaws in captivity anywhere . |