Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 2 | It was a terrible time for the Orcs , who suffered defeat after defeat and never found a leader of their own to equal Sigmar . |
| 3 | Christopher also does judo at the Stockton Judo Club and recently won a gold medal at the Judo Mini Mons at Willington Spectrum Centre . |
| 4 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 5 | She put in an offer to the oily estate agent and just caught a train to London , which was lucky , for there was not another for two hours . |
| 6 | He caught a youth breaking into a car and also won a Post Office award for fighting off two men trying to break into his van . |
| 7 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |
| 8 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 9 | Legislators in the 1944 Education Act looked upon nursery education in a positive light and indeed laid a duty on local education authorities to provide enough to enable any parent who wanted it to send their child to a nursery school . |
| 10 | Puzzled and furious , he frisked the entire room in search of the culprit and practically committed a felony on the tie when he found it . |
| 11 | LOVESICK squaddie Gregory Hobbins shot dead a security guard and severely wounded a policeman in a three-hour terror siege , a court heard yesterday . |
| 12 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 13 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 14 | The foal is given a health check and normally given a routine antibiotic and tetanus antiserum as well as an enema to aid the passing of meconium . |
| 15 | ‘ She was a lovely wee girl and never missed a day . |
| 16 | She rummaged around in a handbag as big as my trumpet case and eventually found a length of till receipt from a grocery store . |
| 17 | Rovers were 2-0 in the opening 15 minutes through Morrissey and John Aldridge and perhaps made a rod for their own backs by scoring so early and then failing to add to that lead until the 77th minute through Neil McNab . |
| 18 | Top of the girls ' 11–12 group was Lindsay Robinson ( Chester-le-Street ) , while Angela Lambert ( Gateshead-Whickham ) was a double winner and also got a bronze in the 13–14 age group , and Clare Goatman ( Newcastle ) had one first and two second places to win the girls ' ten-years award . |
| 19 | He used to just sit there with a 12 string guitar and often used a tape recorder with backing tracks , and then put on a harmony live or used a stylophone . |
| 20 | The Prince Edward visited Callendar Park and was received by Captain William Forbes ( Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Falkirk ) and later visited Stirling Castle , Strathallan Games Park and subsequently attended a dinner at the Forum Hotel , Glasgow . |
| 21 | In a quiet way she was a heavy drinker and often needed a dash of caffeine in the morning . |
| 22 | We backed Frank Gray as his successor and even paid a record club fee for Nick Cusack . |
| 23 | Several miles away in Queen Margaret Drive , a BBC technician knelt down beside a music stand and gently pulled a strip of card aside revealing some names and numbers . |
| 24 | They ploughed cash into marketing attempts and even won a prize from the local council . |
| 25 | I phoned the squadron at their base and immediately booked a flight to Halifax NS . |
| 26 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 27 | A young woman with large breasts paraded them across a football field and immediately got a job of modelling double-breasted clothes . |
| 28 | Helping where it can , the company has sponsored a coach trip to an Ayrshire match and recently donated a prize to one of the club 's many fund raising activities — all in aid of the kids . |
| 29 | She moved from handbags through gifts to the flower shop and eventually reached a men 's outfitting department where , suddenly , she saw Edward . |
| 30 | They arrived in separate motorcades and barely exchanged a glance as they walked across the tarmac . |