Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Waterfront and Rebel without a Cause had appeared in 1954 and 1955 , starring Marlon Brando and James Dean respectively , and I had fallen for them both . |
| 2 | The fellow looked furtively round , licked his lips , and beckoned Corbett and Ranulf into a shadowy window recess . |
| 3 | The Gascon led Corbett and Ranulf through a maze of corridors which led out to the back of the palace , across a deserted dusty yard into one of the large outbuildings there . |
| 4 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 5 | He travelled under his new name to Afghanistan and embarked on a decade of pioneering travel and antiquarian investigation . |
| 6 | Jim was born in Buttleberry Berkshire and comes from a farming stroke dairy background . |
| 7 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 8 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 9 | W.G. Grace was taking part in a match for London County against Warwickshire , opening the batting with W.L. Murdoch and playing in a fashion which reminded contemporary reporters of his heyday , and C.B. Fry was scoring a century for Sussex . |
| 10 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 11 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 12 | There is coal in Kintyre and large pieces are sometimes brought up by fishing boats working locally , so perhaps the old people who say that coal was mined at Daill and used by a local blacksmith in the First World War are correct , although no trace of workings has been found . |
| 13 | Two needlework cushions with tassels designed by David and made by a friend sit happily with a traditional Amish quilt . |
| 14 | Glad of our meeting in Vancouver and hope for a reunion in New York , Moscow , Samarkand or the Volga ’ . |
| 15 | Rob Madgwick dispossessed Wright and fired in a shot that was well saved by Stuart Burt . |
| 16 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze , meeting US Secretary of State Baker in Moscow on Aug. 3 , issued with him a joint statement condemning the invasion of Kuwait and appealing for a global ban on arms supplies to Iraq . |
| 17 | In 1861 he was high sheriff of Surrey and served as a JP . |
| 18 | In 1884 , disenchanted with his life at Eton , Salt decided to live at Tilford in Surrey and concentrate on a simple life , following his many interests in the field of humanitarianism . |
| 19 | We had gone through Mullinavat and came to a village whose name I do not know — if it ever had one . |
| 20 | One of these brothers , George Mould ( 1843–1908 ) , was born in Whitchurch and worked as a railway clerk before he went in search of a new life on the other side of the world . |
| 21 | It remained in private hands until the early 1950s , when it was bought by owner-manager James Edgar and converted into a hotel . |
| 22 | Instead Athelstan looked across the river at the ships plying along the quays of Billingsgate and Queenshithe in a scene of frenetic activity . |
| 23 | Lewis will return to Britain on September 18 after preparing in Washington and switch to a Cardiff headquarters . |
| 24 | At 2 p.m. a big KC 135 tanker lifted off from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington and headed for a mid-air rendezvous with the Eagle at 45,000 feet over the eastern seaboard . |
| 25 | Should I get a car to NY and get on a plane tonight , or do tonight 's show and cancel the two tomorrow . |
| 26 | If OUP are entirely satisfied with the method of text capture and with a reasonably large proportion of the machine-readable output ( say , the equivalent of one volume of OED ) , there is no reason why the first editing phase , i.e. the integration of OED and Supplement into a single work , should not be begun , assuming no other technical problems prevented this . |
| 27 | Ironside played his last away game for Scarborough at Maidstone in May and comes into a side with just one win in eight games . |
| 28 | South America also has a small tree-climbing anteater , which is a close cousin of Myrmecophaga and looks like a miniature and less extreme version of it , and a third , intermediate form . |
| 29 | And it 's very hot and not nice for children , so you can stay in England and go to a boarding school like Alex — wo n't that be fun ? ’ |
| 30 | Now , after living in a large house at Cape Cod on the east coast of America for 35 years , she has returned to England and settled in a small village in Berkshire . |