Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 2 | Opposition spokesman Roger Stott today hit condemned a move by Labour 's ruling national executive to investigate further the extent of support in the province for a Labour Party organisation . |
| 3 | The next mill downstream has had a variety of names over the years : Russell Mill , Lowes Mill and more recently , Malvern Mill . |
| 4 | Aubrey was the elder son ( there were no daughters ) by the second marriage , Lord Carnarvon already having had a son and three daughters by his first . |
| 5 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 6 | TELEVISION footage of a youth soccer match at Wembley 18 years ago has prompted a search by a former Merseyside non-league player for a permanent record of the game . |
| 7 | A woman who learnt to dive just three years ago has found a Viking relic which is more than a thousand years old . |
| 8 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |
| 9 | The negative consequence , however , is that Christians there have developed a ghetto mentality that can no longer think in terms of mission , but only survival . |
| 10 | Bunny was frowning ; the woman , who the night before had worn a bow in her hair , stared obliquely at Meredith . |
| 11 | He did n't do badly in F. Ford , but F3 beckoned soon enough , a step which his biographer Eion Young rightly says proved a rite of passage from racing as a hobby to racing as a profession . |
| 12 | This volume also has appended a poem ‘ On the Ruins of St. Austin 's , Canterbury ’ , which was published in the Kentish Gazette of 9 July 1774 and said to have been written sometime after Dixon was seventy-three years old . |
| 13 | As the 1980s came to an end the fitness movement worldwide had become a £1 billion industry . |
| 14 | That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad . |
| 15 | Banbury Guardian and Citizen , the Banbury Town Liberals , the Campaign for Oxford even have registered a team . |
| 16 | Guinness Brewing Worldwide has established a reputation for its advertising and marketing skills . |
| 17 | Initially Kidd had intended returning Down Under , but an attractive offer from Division Two side Sundays Well has prompted a change of heart . |
| 18 | In the General Prologue the Reeve is thus described : and : and the Host responds to the serious reflections of the Reeve 's Prologue accordingly : But the Host too has appropriated a character , as judge and ruler of the tale-telling game , that takes him beyond the predictable attributes of his normal station in life : while in the fiction of the Tales , the Miller has just been attributed with the strengths of the court poet Chaucer as a narrator . |
| 19 | The company also had made a lot of new product introductions , he added . |
| 20 | Wilko seemingly has made a bid of ( I think the figure was ) 90,000 . |
| 21 | And you want me to tell the warren that young — er — young — er — your brother here has got a hunch and we must all go trapesing across country to goodness knows where and risk the consequences , eh ? |
| 22 | A half-timbered house here has become a library . |
| 23 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |