Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McColl is the first Scot to have won a boys ' winter series title . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The senior Harmon was the best-playing club pro in golf , having won a Masters , then he returned to his golf shop . |
| 4 | Won a sports trophy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By 1701 Myddlewood had attracted a squatters ' colony of fourteen cottages that formed a distinct , new settlement between Myddle village and the hamlet of Marton . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | BE PREPARED to take a ribbing from the Scouts , British Telecom — you 've really dropped a gooli in your new advertising campaign ! |
| 9 | Staff and governors at Our Lady of Fatima Upper School , Anfield , have organised a parents meeting on Monday . |
| 10 | Prior to Theology , he may have pursued an Arts course when he was a young man . |
| 11 | Perhaps someone else who saw him more often can give a fairer description but I 've never met a Whites fan who had too many good words for him . |
| 12 | Another student , who had attended a girls ' grammar , felt that there were important differences between single-sex schools and mixed schools . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | On April 30 a Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court judge sentenced a police station commander , Brian Mitchell , to death after finding him guilty of murdering 11 black mourners at a funeral in December 1988 . |
| 15 | Cross-examined by the defence QC , Donald Macfadyen , Mr Runciman disagreed that after the executive committee meeting , while he had decided a profits warning should be issued , the two other members had not made up their minds . |
| 16 | Er I 've organized a children 's Christmas party , it 's called Christmas party . |
| 17 | When you initially approach an Alexander teacher , make sure that he or she has undergone a teachers ' training course that is recommended by The Society of Alexander Teachers ( STAT ) . |
| 18 | I think I think I think you 've probably stirred a hornets nest up with that . |
| 19 | Of course , you did make it clear that I had n't disturbed a lovers ’ tryst out there by the lake , so I 'm curious to know what did send you rushing through the grounds in such a state of agitation ? ’ |
| 20 | Physical geography books written for a variety of educational levels have adopted a systems viewpoint to provide an organizational structure . |
| 21 | To port X apps over DataFocus must call upon the X portability solutions provided by Hummingbird and DEC otherwise the programs will not adopted a Windows look and feel . |
| 22 | It causes abnormal physical development , now you 've all seen a Downs Syndrome person have n't you ? |
| 23 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 24 | Sondra Locke never would have made a Forces ' pin-up but that did n't deter Clint Eastwood from turning her into a star with lotsa spunk — and they were off-screen lovers — although he could have had his pick of ‘ beautiful broads ’ . |
| 25 | The all-powerful ICC even made a balls up of it by refusing to clear the tourists when asked to do so . |
| 26 | Mr Kohl has not visited an asylum-seekers ' home where foreigners had been attacked . |
| 27 | It seems that if you 've done an arts degree , apart from social science , then really you 're in line for jobs that science students go for as well , whereas arts students ca n't go for science degree jobs so you 've got more scope to apply for . |
| 28 | Brinson , before taking over the Gulbenkian Foundation in London in 1972 had chaired an arts committee of the Foundation , set up to discuss and provide financial help to the performing arts , and particularly to dance , which had had , in his words ‘ a raw deal ’ . |
| 29 | Immediately upon his retirement , McGuinness earned his civil pilots licence ( 6845 ) on July 12 , 1935 and , on July 24 , 1936 , was granted an instructors licence . |
| 30 | After further meetings it was reported on July 20 that the Liberian government had accepted an ECOWAS peace proposal , providing for ( i ) a ceasefire ; ( ii ) the deployment of a regional peacekeeping force ; and ( iii ) the immediate formation of a government of national unity . |