Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Champagne became established as a political unit in the early eleventh century when the house of Vermandois united the counties of Troyes and Meaux . |
| 2 | In the context of the mobilisation and assertiveness of organised labour under Heath 's government , the industrial policy proposals became charged with a stronger element of workers ' control which was seen as an essential component of the ‘ planning agreements ’ to be made with large enterprises , and vital to their enforcement . |
| 3 | Temple became known as a local Gretna Green and an historian of the time commented , ‘ Many a bad marriage bargain is there slubbered up ( sic ) and grass widows with their fatlings put to lie in and nurse here ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Or there 's the chance Mills got murdered by a sadistic lunatic , ’ Urquhart added . |
| 5 | The enactment of the hunt and the practice of imitative magic to ensure success at the kill became fossilized as a widespread and regular feature of the seasonal festivities . |
| 6 | Almost immediately , however , a fierce nationalist resistance erupted directed by a fiery prophet in the hills of Galilee . |
| 7 | Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags . |
| 8 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 9 | The negotiations on British entry became fused with a wider debate in 1960–3 about the future of the Community . |
| 10 | During his Oxford years , Isaac Abendana became known as a resident authority on all matters Jewish and the chief purveyor of Hebrew books , a situation he consolidated by inventing the Oxford diary , which in his original form included not only information relevant to university men but also a yearly essay on some aspect of Jewish religion and culture . |
| 11 | In February Hungary agreed to move towards a multi-party system , an idea that was once as dreamy as the Danube . |
| 12 | Mind you , Ann , I suppose that 's why Pat got thinking about a Tory er vote . |
| 13 | Oldfield himself asked Branson to carry on as his manager , which Branson agreed to do for a new rate — Oldfield would pay him one barrel of beer a year . |
| 14 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 15 | After an opening 25 minutes of tedious football , Wright got to work with a magnificent solo display . |
| 16 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 17 | Alan Austin and the Barley Brothers seemed afflicted by a similar grading paralysis on Yorkshire limestone . |
| 18 | Curiously I proceeded down this route and my eyes came to rest on a small , battered , but not unclean little building . |
| 19 | Yet she knew the answer , and the memory of his kiss burned with the exquisite mixture of pleasure and pain , wrenching her soul from its customary place , changing all things , so that her glance seemed to rest on a changed universe . |
| 20 | The apparition seemed to disperse into a million pieces and disappear like a killer wave in a storm . |
| 21 | Chilly as it was , it was nothing compared to the day little Rizla came kicking into a snowy world of white . |
| 22 | In the ensuing argument , McNall began to wrestle with a young Nez Perce named Wilhautyah ( Wind Blowing ) for possession of the Indian 's gun . |
| 23 | Alarmed the other day , though , when the car started to run like a hairy goat — as one eloquent ‘ Strine ’ put it . |
| 24 | A blue-grey heron glided to rest on a pebbly strand , and a cormorant flew high overhead like a goose . |
| 25 | Football meant standing on a muddy pitch hoping the ball would n't come anywhere near me , so that I would n't be forced to tackle some vicious little boy who really cared who won the game . |
| 26 | This study in a large population of patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome aimed to search for a differential pattern of gastric endocrine cells between patients with sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome and those with the syndrome and MEN 1 , and to establish whether there is a real predominance of ECL cell tumours in the second group . |
| 27 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |
| 28 | But the home side had to settle for a winning draw after St George 's finished on 175–7 , despite a 2–55 return from 16-year old slow left arm bowler Howard Jones on his debut . |
| 29 | Meticulous Jeff had hoped for a fine , calm evening — but it was misty and windy . |
| 30 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |