Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time . |
| 2 | ‘ I met Kay in a nightclub but did my courting in Woolworth 's where she worked , ’ he says . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll call the press and get the TV cameras out to Monument Hill in an hour or so , ’ said Ray Shepherd . |
| 4 | We had sailed up the brown Tambopata forty kilometres south from Puerto Maldonaldo in a skiff that barely cleared the water . |
| 5 | ‘ Hmm , ’ Janice in a tone that suggested that she was really trying to be interested as well as sound it . |
| 6 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 7 | WARREN SPRING Laboratory is to merge with AEA in a move that will result in the establishment of a National Environmental Technology Centre . |
| 8 | James Spencer QC , prosecuting , alleged Mr Nichol approached Mrs Chandler in a field but when she ignored him he pulled her down the bank , sexually assaulted her and hit her on the head with a rock or rocks . |
| 9 | Mother Francis the celibate nun who had never thought she could know the joy of seeing a child grow up in her care had loved Eve in a way that might well have made her blind to the feelings and sensitivities of other people . |
| 10 | I do not understand why we should be dealing with local government finance in Scotland in a Bill that covers the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | In the council chamber quite recently one of the Socialists supported the position taken up by the Soviet Government in Russia in a way that showed what would happen here if they got the power in their hands . |
| 12 | ‘ She does n't always have to upset the table , though , when she is there , does she ? ’ remarked Henry Tyler in a tone that at least one ambassador had been known to call ‘ eminently reasonable ’ . |
| 13 | It 's in the High Street in a restaurant that 's named after the old Right and Wrong Club in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | Several people with North-East connections have been linked with the job former Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch , ex-Sunderland chief coach Viv Busby , one-time York boss John Bird , David McCreery , who has been released as Hartlepool 's player-assistant manager , and Billy McEwan , once with Scarborough in a coaching and scouting capacity . |
| 15 | With her new hairstyle , as well as make-up , perfume and high-heeled shoes , she felt more confident about herself in the outfit today , and when , just before five o'clock , she found Tom in a lounge-room that was festooned with Christmas reds and greens , she was able to walk across the room to him , confident and smiling . |
| 16 | And Miss Plum walks through the playground carrying two heavy bags , and in a flash I am beside her , smiling a face full of teeth like Tom in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 17 | In the early Eighties , McLean , by now the champion of unlicensed boxing , took on Brian ‘ The Mad Gypsy ’ Bradshaw in a fight that was televised and seen by millions . |
| 18 | Patten told the House of Commons in a statement that government finance for local authorities ( grant and business rate allocation ) would rise by 12.8 per cent from £23,100 million to £26,000 million in 1991-92 . |
| 19 | This ruling has freed the American media to probe Watergate and Irangate in a depth and a detail which could not be attempted in equivalent circumstances in Britain , where the merest hint of impropriety in public life calls forth a libel writ . |
| 20 | Tish Reid beat Gill in a trial but is not considered to have Olympic potential in a single . |
| 21 | The £2.5 million forward will be scrutinised like never before at White Hart Lane in a match that will severely examine his character . |
| 22 | True , the curia regis , de Banco and other rolls contain mainly names of notable , even famous , families , but they can also record the names of more ordinary folk : 1261 , ‘ Thomas Piket and his wife Cristina versus Ralph le Bret and William his son , and Richard de Langlay in a plea that they cut down trees ’ ; 1262 , ‘ Akyma who was wife of William de Reyney versus William de Bekeford for ⅓ of the moiety of the advowson of the church ’ ; 1318 , ‘ The sheriff to have here William de Bradewas , Matilda Bret , Henry de Knyghteton , Walter de Pyneford , John Keneman , John Weryng , Richard North , Thomas Tredy , and Henry Gledy to show by what right … ‘ , and so on . |
| 23 | I 've been to Cockermouth in a pony and trap ! " |
| 24 | Craddock in a year or two would be retiring and he would need a replacement . |
| 25 | They reflect the debates and use the terminology of contemporary Paris in a way that the work of Master Hugh does not ; yet Achard is doctrinally conservative , and essentially unsympathetic to the drift towards organized secular schools and ( within his lifetime ) the University of Paris . |
| 26 | She spotted Sam in a corner and hurried over . |
| 27 | Leonor Fini underlined this concern when she painted her friend Leonora Carrington in a breastplate and sensible skirt , not a fetish object but a woman warrior and a ‘ true revolutionary ’ , released from cliches of femininity . |
| 28 | HAVE YOU EVER DRUNK A PINT OF Guinness in a pub or club and been disappointed by its quality ? |
| 29 | It 's funny how it works , is n't it , I mean we 've just , it , it 's like us and er Swindon in a way because we 've just got it over on Port Vale have n't we ? |
| 30 | He immediately set off for Germany in a van and the rest is history . |