Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 2 | I went to the Norfolk Broads , and erm I think it was Saturday morning we went to have a look at a flat , |
| 3 | She and Lee were never close colleagues but as WEA tutor-organiser she continued to play a key role in attracting students to her short courses and from these developed a few Tutorial Classes for which Lee was the tutor . |
| 4 | He said that " the political temperature had been pushed unacceptably high " by the ANC campaign which had created a climate making " incidents such as these easier to happen " . |
| 5 | ‘ In my time at Burmah Oil I had led a complete reconstruction of the Group . |
| 6 | The harshest comment comes from an illiterate Yorkshire collier who had suffered a bitter , loveless childhood , tormented by a cruel brother . |
| 7 | A COVENTRY schoolgirl who helped form a theatre company at the age of 14 and took a play to Russia on a 10-day tour two years later could soon be working at the National Theatre . |
| 8 | As I walked out to the front of Wolverhampton station I did wonder a little when I noticed that there was a regular service train on the monitor , due to leave at 1822 . |
| 9 | Zielinski ordered criminal proceedings against a Warsaw hospital which had refused a patient an abortion and even an examination of the state of her pregnancy . |
| 10 | Visitors attending the Festival of Underwater Sport held at Crystal Palace in London were met on their arrival by a large contingent of members from the Lewisham branch who had arranged a bucket collection and an indoor souvenir stall . |
| 11 | Working through the Bargues manual he laboured to produce a drawing of a large-sized skeleton on five sheets of Ingres paper . |
| 12 | Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper . |
| 13 | Paul Newlove , a Featherstone player who did gain a place in this week 's Test squad , scored the first try at the other end , following Barry Drummond 's kick . |
| 14 | On a London bus she had heard a driver announce Stoke-Jewington when driving through Islington . |
| 15 | WPP IS to be paid $7m ( £4.3m ) in an out-of-court settlement of its long-running legal battle against former executives of its Lord Geller subsidiary who left to form a rival agency with backing from Young & Rubicam , the US advertising giant . |
| 16 | Until a fortnight ago , Geoff Martin was the local Council 's representative on the Merton and Sutton Health Authority which voted to use a private security firm at the hospital . |
| 17 | THE East Team played 18 games during our ten day stay in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and when we left St John for Quebec City we had established a lead of over 100 shots . |