Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun prp] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HARD-UP Middlesbrough man who travelled to London in search of work but ended up plastering sex-for-sale stickers in the capital 's call-boxes to raise some quick cash , was going straight back to his parents as soon as he could , Marylebone Magistreates Court heard . |
| 2 | Ballymena worked hard but it still was n't enough against a low-key Portadown side who only clicked into gear at the finish . |
| 3 | He must have had charm , nevertheless , not to mention a broad Somerset accent which may have added to his own special brand of eloquence . |
| 4 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |
| 5 | For a prestigious London client who requested anonymity , this close-up of a carpet border shows the details on one corner of the carpet laid within a large reception area . |
| 6 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |
| 7 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 8 | This momentum throughout the industry was difficult to halt and later in the 1970s with the second oil shock and over capacity of 40 per cent , an added pressure element came from a weak US dollar which allowed relatively cheap American products on to the market on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 9 | Another was a Scots upholsterer who kept on his business because ‘ that was his life ; ’ a third , a retired London stevedore who ‘ had a pub in Rotherhithe . ’ |
| 10 | PATRIOT GAMES Latest post- Die Hard middle-aged action pic stars Harrison Ford as heroic executive Jack Ryan , a retired CIA man who starts working late at the office again to rescue his family from vengeful IRA man Sean Bean . |
| 11 | The worst affected was a 1935 Lagonda tourer which had been stored in a barn for some years before passing into the Museum 's hands . |
| 12 | This is all bundled into a 208-pin CLCC package which , in single chip applications will run on 3W ; 5W is needed to drive large external memory systems . |
| 13 | This is all bundled into a 208-pin CLCC package which , in single chip applications will run on 3W ; 5W is needed to drive large external memory systems . |
| 14 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 15 | It came as the Labour leadership put its weight behind a tactical Commons move which threatens to wreck the Maastricht bill or force the Government to accept the social chapter . |
| 16 | The MDS2000 is a multidimensional GC system which has a fully programmable microprocessor unit and is perfect for resolving difficult to separate components . |
| 17 | Stirling had always envisaged the Free French contingent as the nucleus of a French SAS regiment which would assist in the eventual liberation of their country . |
| 18 | The target is believed to be a privately-owned Surrey business which is a supplier of most aluminimum products to the aerospace and defence sectors . |
| 19 | Kerrey , a distinguished Vietnam veteran who had lost part of a leg in combat , had castigated Clinton as unelectable because of his avoidance of service in Vietnam . |
| 20 | So Frye is a one-time KGB mole who 's slept with drab Duckham 's ex-wife à la Bill Haydon and George Smiley . |
| 21 | A nineteen-year-old Coventry woman who disowned any interest in feminism or politics — " I 'm just a fun girl , " — said she could never remember anybody talking about " the clitoris or orgasms ' . |
| 22 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 23 | If someone touched him from behind on a crowded Saturday night he would push himself back onto the anonymous hand , just like a cat would , without turning round to see who it was . |
| 24 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |
| 25 | Within 12 minutes , Aled Williams had banged over a second penalty goal as a prelude to a tremendous Swansea surge which brought the second try from Jenkins . |
| 26 | And although it was a typical Lineker goal which ensured England 's place in the European Championship finals , when he scored a late equaliser in Poland , Taylor 's doubts began to emerge clearly . |
| 27 | The main speakers were the president of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement , Kadar Asmal , who was a South African-born lecturer in law at Trinity College Dublin , and Ciarán Mac an Áilí , a Derry-born Dublin solicitor who was a member of the International Federation of Jurists and president of the Irish Pacifist Association . |
| 28 | The campaign , which aims to raise £500,000 , was originally set up in memory of a seven-year-old Kent boy who dies in 1979 . |
| 29 | WARWICK Wilson is a 36-year-old Alness farmer who has suffered a loss of sensation in his hands and feet . |
| 30 | Valentine Cunningham 's excellent study , British Writers in the Thirties , records that , in prolier-than-thou fashion , Calder-Marshall briefly signed himself Arthur Marshall , and had he continued to do so he would have been overshadowed by a later NSS contributor whose speciality was parodying schoolgirl fiction . |