Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A detailed site investigation confirmed that the limestone and oil shales had been extensively worked to the east of Straiton Road and also identified a number of coal seams near Lasswade Road which had also been worked . |
| 3 | Satisfied that he had done what he had been instructed , the young American walked back down to Bayswater Road and soon hailed a cab for Heathrow . |
| 4 | A graduate of Trinity College , Dublin , he holds diplomas in Education from Queen 's and the University of Ulster and recently gained a diploma in company management . |
| 5 | SAVE first heard of the danger of a possible sale in September and immediately issued a press release : |
| 6 | A graduate in urban and regional planning , he originally worked for the Urban Wildlife Trust in Birmingham and also spent a period as an environmental planning consultant . |
| 7 | During the war he served first in the ranks in Mesopotamia and subsequently obtained a commission in the Royal Air Force . |
| 8 | In a statement to the Rajya Sabha ( the upper house of the legislature ) on May 14 , Home Minister S. B. Chavan said that the larger objective of the LTTE went beyond the establishment of a Tamil homeland in north-eastern Sri Lanka and hence posed a threat to India 's sovereignty and territorial integrity . |
| 9 | He told its authors : ‘ I took part in a number of school and house plays at Charterhouse and so acquired a taste for performing in public . ’ |
| 10 | Two weeks on the beach at Mombasa , not in a hotel of course , but in the bungalow of an old friend who had survived freedom and independence in Kenya and still made a living out of East Africa 's import and export trade . |
| 11 | Tory supporters also turned against the BMA and angrily disrupted a BMA fringe meeting shortly before the health debate . |