Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young , red-haired man , dressed simply in a leather jerkin , leggings and boots , came up to Corbett and spoke in an accent the English clerk could not even hope to follow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rob Madgwick dispossessed Wright and fired in a shot that was well saved by Stuart Burt . |
| 5 | Instead Athelstan looked across the river at the ships plying along the quays of Billingsgate and Queenshithe in a scene of frenetic activity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 8 | And now , to make matters worse , here 's this fella in a suit , the bride 's father , nodding at Pierce Turner and asking in a loud voice : ‘ is that a he or she ? ’ . |
| 9 | He was unconscious by the time he arrived at hospital in Sanford and remained in a coma until he died . |
| 10 | The 100 tonnes of relief supplies , valued at around £1 million , had been collected from all over Scotland and stored in a warehouse in the east end of Glasgow for dispatch to hospitals and children 's and old folk 's homes . |
| 11 | Sow seed in a cold frame in March and April , or from heeled cuttings taken in July and struck in a cold frame . |
| 12 | We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate . |
| 13 | The Lewis camp , meanwhile , are considering a three-fight programme which would begin with London-born Alex Stewart and culminate in a showdown with Bruno . |
| 14 | James held out his hand to Stephen and said in a deep , confident voice , ‘ Good to see you , Stephen ; you look well . ’ |
| 15 | This , however , is caused by the presence of clay minerals in the carbonates , which decrease in abundance upwards away from the Grauer Salzton and result in an anomalous log response . |
| 16 | At West Croydon , the wires crossed over the main road into Station Road and terminated in a loop at a triangular widening at the entry to St. Michael 's Road , opposite the old station building . |
| 17 | I went to Argentina and sat in a cell and waited for the torturers to come in . |
| 18 | Fenn Wright Spurlings , for example , has just sold ( for about £380,000 ) the Old Vicarage in Stoke-by-Nayland , saying that the area is ‘ a favourite subject of the painter John Constable and appears in a number of well-known paintings and in many of his sketches , some of which show the house itself ’ . |
| 19 | Tindle was then working as a commercial artist in Soho and living in a room in Portobello Road . |
| 20 | Their numbers may be easily increased by cuttings taken either in October and kept in a frost free cold frame or in a propagator in March . |
| 21 | They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes . |
| 22 | He had been to Sandhurst and served in a cavalry regiment before going to Kenya to farm . |
| 23 | ‘ Overhung with Bougainvillea and steeped in a fairytale atmosphere . ’ |
| 24 | McFadyean spent the years of his retirement in Leatherhead and died in a Hindhead nursing home 1 February 1941 . |
| 25 | Hugh Bayley , York 's Labour candidate hoping to overturn Conservative Conal Gregory 's slim 147 majority , said Labour would order the trains needed by BR and invest in a punctual , clean , public service railway . |
| 26 | She gave a hard look at Flavia and said in a hard tone , ‘ Now you 're not going to break a lance for Rosette Fournier ? |
| 27 | Donald joined the Bank in Carnoustie and served in a number of branches in Dundee and Perth before moving to Head Office in 1965 . |
| 28 | She believed in the reality of something ordained by God and described in a book of Holy Scripture read and remembered for thousands of years ; whereas he believed in the reality of something described in the pages of Saunder 's News-Letter & daily Advertiser , which people were unlikely to remember the very next morning . |
| 29 | Truss and place in a non-metallic dish . |
| 30 | This chapter has examined spheres in which the experiences of men and women diverge in modern Britain and differ in a way which is , typically , to the disadvantage of women . |