Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money-lender gave her £20 and took a further charge on her furniture — Bill of Sale no 1 . |
| 2 | More than 3,000 consultants are backing the legal challenge , each having contributed at least £10 and guaranteed a further £100 towards the cost . |
| 3 | He said that he and his partner , Frank Anderson , bought the empty property in Marine Park Mansions , Wellington Road , for £750,000 and spent a further £200,000 converting it from flats into a hotel . |
| 4 | In the later afternoon , Andrew Gregg , deputy co-ordinator of ‘ UUUC Advice and Relief Centres ’ , and I returned to Central Strike Headquarters and collected a portable typewriter and some other items of equipment useful for continuing the strike should we have to go into hiding . |
| 5 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 6 | She was constitutionally a Kali Carb. patient and she was given the 10M but sustained a long aggravation followed by weakening of her condition . |
| 7 | Hewlett-Packard Co has reduced prices on the six members of its existing HP700/RX X-Windows station series by between $500 an $1,000 and introduced a new 17″ colour 17Cs monitor with 4Mb RAM at $4,700 . |
| 8 | Er and , and the people that had a regular job , now there was one next door to us . |
| 9 | Er I 'm one of those people that took a two year er low pay rise , to put me into the Health Service when my husband was ill . |
| 10 | The conflict was regularly reported in the mass media and had a serious effect on public confidence in the party . |
| 11 | Although he is a newcomer to sailing and the America 's Cup , he has created a huge syndicate of 200 people and spent a staggering £1.4 million per month on his camapign for the past year-and-a-half . |
| 12 | The examination syllabus set new standards in the teaching of drama to young people and provided a spectacular contrast to the out-of-date , circumscribed speech and drama examinations of the Royal Academy , Guildhall and Trinity Colleges . |
| 13 | On Saturday two masked youths , one armed with a hammer and the other with a butcher 's knife , went into the sub post office at Lamlash Crescent , Glasgow , threatened the staff and stole a three-figure sum of cash . |
| 14 | Brian Eaton , a collector from Camberley has been rummaging around car boot sales and found a splendid aluminium model of a DH.91 Albatross . |
| 15 | Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason ( 1781 ) was just one of the major works that heralded a new way of doing philosophy : the beginning of that critical rationality that Sir Karl Popper so admired and saw as a turning-point in the history of ideas . |
| 16 | Edmund was able to raise effective armies , and as late as 1012 Æthelred had levied a tribute of £48,000 and instituted a new tax , the heregeld ( army-payment ) , to reward Scandinavians in his service . |
| 17 | The closure , in 1991 , cost the Pru £380m and attracted a huge amount of criticism at the time . |
| 18 | The sale of Modern British art at Sotheby 's on 4 November included a surprising number of notable works and attracted a large audience . |
| 19 | I have now converted to 12V and put a 2.5 BMC diesel into it . |
| 20 | Last year the group turned over $81m and posted a net profit of $1.1m . |
| 21 | Carrollton , Texas-based Westcott Communications Inc is to acquire some assets of TI-IN Network Inc , San Antonio , Texas , for 350,000 new Westcott shares worth about $11m , plus assumption of some liabilities ; TI-IN had audited revenues of some $7.3m and made a net loss of $697,000 for its fiscal year ended September 30 last ; it provides live interactive courses with two-way communication for school pupils in Grades K to 12 ; Westcott Communications says it pioneered satellite delivery of workplace training . |