Example sentences of "[noun prp] received [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the 11 winners of our December 1991 Supercrozzle received a luxury Christmas Hamper , to the value of £70 , from the Achiltibuie and Alness Smokehouses of Summer Isles Foods . |
| 2 | ALLAN McNISH received a late night boost to his Formula One hopes last night when he was summoned by Benetton-Ford team owner , Tom Walkinshaw , to test-drive the team 's new Grand Prix car at Silverstone today . |
| 3 | Shortly after arriving back in London , Branson received a telephone call : if he could raise his offer to 300,000 dollars , Neckar Island was his . |
| 4 | Relieved that he had an airplane at all , Branson received the news with a wan smile . |
| 5 | Less than two hours after her meeting with Mrs Files and Curtis , Delia Sutherland received a call from Muriel Fuller . |
| 6 | On the Wednesday after Jake returned to Edinburgh to deal with the crisis at MacKay Contracting , Shiona received a frantic phone call from Desmond , her second-in-command in London . |
| 7 | Only when Mr Trout and his associate , Mr Alan Abel received the accolade of an interview with America 's top television journalist , Walter Cronkite , did SINA disappear from the limelight . |
| 8 | In the course of Thrush Green , Molly received a proposal of marriage from Ben Curdle . |
| 9 | Earlier this week , efforts to fill the 165,000 sq ft Cornmill received a fillip when WH Smith was confirmed as an anchor tenant , taking up 11,000 sq ft premises , also in Northgate Mall . |
| 10 | On Feb. 3 the LDP received a further boost , when one of the wings of the divided Nacionalista Party ( NP ) , that led by Senator Juan Ponce Enrile ( Defence Secretary under former President Ferdinand Marcos , and until Feb. 3 a candidate in his own right ) and former Senator Arturo Tolentino , announced that it would join a coalition with the LDP , in exchange for places in the LDP 's slates of candidates for the congressional and local elections . |
| 11 | Following her visit to Sutton Hall , former Darlington Mayor Heather Scott received a Golden Key card carrying £1,000-worth of free hotel accommodation . |
| 12 | Eight days later , Scott received an official letter approving the design of the India Office and instructing him to proceed with the working drawings . |
| 13 | In May 1990 we carried out our own investigation into the story of the alleged " Bleiburg Massacre " , with the aid of Dr Aripand Thurn-Valsassina , the owner of Bleiburg Castle and Mr Robert Plan of the American OSS who led the leading column of the Croats to Bleiburg ( both of whom were present when Brig Scott received the Croat Generals ) , and of Yugoslav historians who have been carrying out their own researches into the massacres in Yugoslavia in 1945 . |
| 14 | Linda received a liver from another child so surgeons did not have to cut an adult liver to size . |
| 15 | These entries were displayed and a design entered by Mr G. F. Williams of Dundee received the majority of the votes cast . |
| 16 | Four of these companies are quoted separately from CB on the Paris Bourse ( CB received a London listing in 1973 ) : UCB ( 33 per cent owned by CB , in housing and property finance ) , UFB Locabail ( 66.2 per cent , business equipment finance ) , Cetelem ( 67.7 per cent , consumer finance ) , and Cardif ( 56 per cent , life insurance and savings products ) . |
| 17 | Paul Shadbolt received the Knock-Out shield and also the trophy for the best aggregate Stableford scores for the season . |
| 18 | Jeff received a further 2.5-year sentence last week for trying to strangle Kathy after hearing a false rumour that she was pregnant by a former client . |
| 19 | At a ceremony on board Pride of Calais recently , P&O European Ferries ( Dover ) , Managing Director , Les Stephenson received the British Standards Institution plaque and certificates from the then Secretary of State for the Environmental and MP for Folkestone and Hythe Michael Howard . |
| 20 | That same day , however , Singh received a vote of confidence at a meeting of the National Front . |
| 21 | Wally received a Benefit at the end of 1953–54 and almost 4,000 admirers turned out to see the Palace beat a London XI by six goals to five ! |
| 22 | Creed received a good deal of spin-off publicity . |
| 23 | In that same year the first instalment of a sexennial tenth was also collected , and from it , after taking the cross , Edward received a loan which he never repaid . |
| 24 | At the wedding ceremony Sir George 's cousin Edward received the suit as a memento . |
| 25 | During 1964–65 , Hayes received a number of reports that attempts would be made to free Blake . |
| 26 | But the more the Duchess of Teck received the more she spent , and shopkeepers , who had sent round goods on a royal promise to pay later , started pressing for payment now . |
| 27 | Then Mr Edgar received a letter from Isabella , telling him that she and Heathcliff were married . |
| 28 | Mr Edgar received a letter from his sister Isabella . |
| 29 | Mrs Wordingham received an income for life ( some £8,000 a year ) as a result of her father 's will . |
| 30 | The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner . |