Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Anne Gibson has won a singles medal for Scotland in the championships — a bronze in 1987 — and McEwan , just 17 , has an outside chance of repeating that . |
| 2 | In Ica ( the venue for the Group of Eight presidential summit which took place on Oct. 11-12 — see p. 36973 ) Sendero Luminoso carried out several bomb attacks and killed the wife of a university rector on Oct. 1-2 , and also attacked a police post in the neighbouring town of Palpa , killing eight and wounding 13 . |
| 3 | In earlier incidents , OMON units on Jan. 14 had briefly occupied a police station in Riga , and had tried to remove two of the barricades which had been put up by Latvians on main roads , bridges and around public buildings in response to events in Vilnius . |
| 4 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 5 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 6 | Yes , erm they 've got a sports centre in Nottingham , and that 's the nearest thing they 've got to Oxford . |
| 7 | We 've actually had a Delegates Conference in April and we meet the company in July and I do n't expect any sold the bread waiting for a massive increase in pay . |
| 8 | BRIAN Robinson last season successfully completed a masters degree at Loughborough College . |
| 9 | More recently Sugden ( 1982 ) has utilized a systems framework for his synthesis of the character of the Arctic and Antarctic . |
| 10 | Baseball may have become a parks game in Britian in recent years but now in Gloucestershire there 's a new name to put alongside the Chicago Whitesox and the Los Angeles Dodgers … the name on the shirt is the Gloster Meteors . |
| 11 | Mr Sugar was not at the house yesterday but it is believed his wife , Ann , was at home as a woman had driven a sports car into the grounds earlier , which bore the registration 1 AS . |
| 12 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 13 | He had found a mews flat in Fulham , convenient for his work , but he often returned to his family only at weekends . |
| 14 | Each student is allocated a studies adviser with whom they meet regularly to discuss academic or other problems . |
| 15 | Each student is allocated a studies adviser with whom they meet regularly to discuss academic or other problems . |
| 16 | At the same time , the Sacramento , California-based company has announced a Windows version of its core Accell/SQL application development and 4GL toolset . |
| 17 | Menlo Park-based Objectivity also announced a partners programme for vendors of object information technology to promote provision of application development tools that increase software development productivity for object database applications . |
| 18 | Profits surge : Share dealing and information group ShareLink , which is planning a £30m stock market flotation next month , has announced a profits rise of just over £1m to £3.5m in the 12 months to March 31 . |
| 19 | A letter I came across in the Houghton Library at Harvard bemoans to his father an incident in which , for some reason , he had offended a women clerk to whom he had consigned some typing . |
| 20 | After Parliament had eventually passed a Pistols Act in 1903 , the police were persuaded in 1907 to bring a charge against the London firm of Gamages at Holborn who were advertising pistols for sale through the post . |
| 21 | Almost every conjurer who has taken a parti pris in this field has found himself accused of possessing psychic powers . |
| 22 | The second trial , after months of going to and fro , moved at last to Orlando , an overwhelmingly white and conservative city , where juries , it is said , have never convicted a police officer for alleged misconduct in the line of duty . |
| 23 | The Palace has launched a friends association with the aim of raising funds for its ongoing restoration programme . |
| 24 | K-Swiss have launched a ladies version of their Si-18 top of the range tennis shoe . |
| 25 | And he said he had ordered a police investigation after reports that a set of traffic lights near the scene of the accident were not working . |
| 26 | Lydia had once read a women's-magazine-type romance in book-form and her mind had felt then as her stomach felt now — ever so slightly destroyed . |