Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 2 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 3 | Once , he had sensed a presence following him on the trail . |
| 4 | He 's got a nerve asking you to , well letting you do this . |
| 5 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 6 | Lord Aldington , 75 , is seeking damages from Nigel Watts , a property developer , who circulated a pamphlet accusing him of arranging every detail of the repatriation of 70,000 Yugoslav and Russian men , women and children who were subsequently tortured and massacred . |
| 7 | Lord Aldington , a UK peer and former Army officer , was on Nov. 30 , 1989 , awarded £1,500,000 in libel damages over a pamphlet accusing him of deliberately sending 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks to their death in 1945 . |
| 8 | A weekly magazine , L'Europeo , published a piece on the problems of restoration and reproduced a photograph of a panel by the sixteenth-century Ferrarese painter Ortolano , in the Pinacoteca Capodimonte , with a caption describing it as Leonardo 's ‘ Last Supper ’ . |
| 9 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 10 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 11 | ‘ I want a clean up , not a snakesiren making it with a mongoose on my face . ’ |
| 12 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 13 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 14 | I know you play golf it might be a danger putting you on the golf courses . |
| 15 | Yeltsin signed a decree relieving him of his post on Oct. 23 . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're always on the look-out for stories of good performance and good practice somewhere in the group , ’ says Jones , who writes all the copy in a job taking him on a growing number of foreign assignments . |
| 17 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 18 | In order to put this over sympathetically to consumers , the Central Authority issued a directive enforcing it on Area Boards : thus underlining the absolute necessity for this increase . |
| 19 | It 's , it 's erm enough of a shock changing it to A four without stapling it , you know . |
| 20 | The purchaser of a completed development , for example a factory , who intends to use the development for his or her own trade purposes or lease it to a person using it for trade purposes may be able to claim capital allowances . |
| 21 | GUNMEN killed an Irish nurse yesterday when they attacked a convoy taking her to a new assignment in Baidoa , a Somali towns at the centre of the famine region . |
| 22 | He spent half a day teaching me about the various policies and endowments , the way to figure cash surrender values , the matter of group insurance , and the various approaches to a prospect by the insurance salesman . |
| 23 | A day driving them over Spain 's hilly , winding roads , and around a slippery off-road course , told a convincing tale . |
| 24 | Hence Jacques Derrida 's influential concept of ‘ différance ’ ( translated in English as at once difference and deferral ) , a concept enabling us to ‘ reconsider all the pairs of opposites on which philosophy is constructed and on which our discourse lives , not in order to see opposition erase itself but to see what indicates that each of the terms must appear as the différance of the other , as the other different and deferred in the economy of the same ’ . |
| 25 | The main reason for this lack of use appears have been uncertainty regarding the potential of such a source , a small number of companies indicated that cost was a factor deterring them from this type of information . |
| 26 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
| 27 | It is Milton 's portrayal of the devil which is magnificent , not the devil himself , but the author is careful enough to place Satan 's admirable qualities within the text as a whole showing them to be put to evil use . |
| 28 | Zoe 's horse ’ Scrumpy ’ stumbled after a jump catapulting her into the ground . |
| 29 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 30 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |