Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a series " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Duriez and Annette Tibbles helped to plan a series of attacks by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 2 | As well as this , in August we helped orchestrate a series of practical workshops at the London Print Workshop . |
| 3 | ‘ Nobody has come over here and tried to win a series . |
| 4 | ‘ The idea first came to me when I was at college and Paul Watson , a BBC producer , came to do a series of lectures . |
| 5 | A happy precedent already exists : three years ago the Academy agreed to abandon a series of spelling changes that it had proposed in 1975 , but which had never found their way into common usage . |
| 6 | I also enjoyed producing a series of Gilbert & Sullivan operas , using orchestra , chorus , soloists and actors . |
| 7 | Development work continued and in about 1980 they began to launch a series of compact lamps , with tube diameters as little as 16 mm , in novel and innovative shapes and sizes . |
| 8 | It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded . |
| 9 | In April 1982 , with the assistance of Hill and Knowlton ( a public relations company ) , the company began publishing a series of brochures entitled R.S. Moves to Weldon . |
| 10 | Unknown to Dana , I began writing a series of free-verse poems about the pictures . |
| 11 | When in 1795 it began holding a series of open-air demonstrations in London , surprising numbers seem to have attended — possibly more than 100,000 , given the tendency for such occasions to become " fairs " with women and children attending as well as men . |
| 12 | • Arthur , after six years in the wilderness , has signed to Chrysalis and recently began recording a series of tracks with producer Phil Bodger , all of which the label regards as potential singles . |
| 13 | There was no question of Lewis abandoning the Moores , but the body does not always believe the evidence of its senses ; and from this time onwards Minto ( as Lewis had begun to call Janie , after a variety of sweet to which she was devoted ) began to develop a series of psychosomatic conditions which strengthened the ties binding him to her side . |
| 14 | I began to have a series of nightmares where I experienced painful sensations up and down my spine , weird chanting and a feeling of terror . |
| 15 | It can not have been long , however , before the painting began to undergo a series of striking changes . |
| 16 | Bernice perched on the edge of the shift supervisor 's desk , watching as the Doctor strode quickly to the neural net cabinets and began to access a series of subsystems . |
| 17 | The two men therefore began to produce a series of articles on local African history in order to show that Africa also had a past worth recalling . |
| 18 | Cramer ran out to his car , took the handset from the dashboard and began to make a series of frantic calls as the car rolled . |
| 19 | During the first week of the launch into the Critical Illness and PHI Market , Manchester Branch decided to run a series of seminars . |
| 20 | Mr Onyett said : ‘ Marla Ware then started to produce a series of complaints against me , and my relationship with Erica Wheeler started to deteriorate . |
| 21 | Many people have also been distressed when a few minutes after their dog was pronounced dead , it started to make a series of gasping movements . |
| 22 | After quickly dispatching such topical issues as the accounting treatment for war damage contributions and claims , it proceeded to issue a series of accounting recommendations , many of which were subsequently enacted in the Companies Act of 1948 . |
| 23 | Emboldened by an alliance with Britain made in 1902 , Japan attacked Russian forces in January 1904 and proceeded to inflict a series of devastating defeats upon her by land and sea . |
| 24 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 25 | The Ministry of Housing and Local Government responded to architectural pressure by setting up an Urban Planning Group within the Ministry , which proceeded to produce a series of planning bulletins in the early 1960s to update advice on town-centre redevelopment . |
| 26 | While still working on the second volume of the Society 's guidebook , at a meeting of the Zoological Society on 16 June 1830 , he applied to undertake a series of drawings of the parrot collection . |
| 27 | During the final year of office of the previous Director , Ralph Youngman , Charles had given a series of public lectures at the school on Canaletto . |
| 28 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
| 29 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 30 | The DHAC was a coalition of radicals from the local Republican Clubs and the left wing of the NILP ; they had organised a series of imaginative protests in Derry to draw attention to bad conditions and discrimination in housing . |