Example sentences of "by a [noun] [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was interesting to read about the Washington write-offs — WF555 was captained by a F/O Connolly who was very much an extrovert ( with an extensive repertoire of bawdy songs ) . |
| 2 | When Mr. Anderson left Glasgow in 1824 to go to Liverpool to take the post of Headmaster at the new institution there , a short time elapsed without any Sunday Meeting until it was revived by a J. Ferguson who was an assistant teacher at the Glasgow Institution . |
| 3 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |
| 4 | The photographs also indicated that the original had two trains ( going and striking ) and indeed there were some interesting notes prepared by a Dr Byrom who was an enthusiastic amateur clock repairer , and who overhauled the clock in 1970 , but these were couched in very general terms . |
| 5 | It appears to be a copy of what Burton called ‘ the oldest and best ’ of the paintings , which is a smaller work of c.1800 ( 24 by 18 inches ) and was painted by a Mr. Everard who was buried in St. George 's Church around 1835 . |
| 6 | So it was that the affairs of Bedford 's House of Industry came under scrutiny by a Mr. Adey who wrote to the then mayor , Dr. George Witt , saying that he ‘ would certainly recommend that that nearly useless building , at present , should be taken advantage of to form an extensive union of parishes for workhouse purposes ’ . |
| 7 | Barrister Deborah Gould , of Oxton , Wirral , was 8 months pregnant when she was hit by a Nissan Micra which swerved into her path as she was out driving her Ford Escort last month . |
| 8 | Then in Hill House , just outside the mill , where Mr Besley now lives , there was a grocer 's shop kept by a Mr Flick who was also the village carrier , taking goods to and from Ipswich . |
| 9 | Some species are named after their collectors , so if our new species of Tyrannosaurus were collected by a Mr Jones it might eventually be christened Tyrannosaurus jonesi . |
| 10 | Around the turn of the century , the mill was bought by a Mr Herbert who , in turn , let it to Henry Boulting who ran the adjacent farm . |
| 11 | There was a little shop there run by a Mr Nixon who would stay open all hours for the hired lads and lassies . |
| 12 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 13 | The 130 pieces in a ‘ Booke of In nomines and other solfainge songs of v : vi : vii : and viii : parts for voyces or Instrumentes ’ dating from c. 1578 , some years later than the Mulliner Book , consist of vocal pieces without text and ‘ In nomines ’ or other cantus firmus compositions , but includes only a single ‘ phancy ’ for five parts by an Edward Blancks who is nearly as obscure as the ‘ Newman ’ of the Mulliner Book . |