Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commons Committee made field visits to the areas highlighted by FoE , and reported that in Cumbria 's Whinlatter Pass ‘ Forestry Commission officials have observed extensive dieback of shoots on Scots Pine , evidenced by browning of needles … |
| 2 | Born in Scotland he started as a young full-back at Park Head … then after 200 games with Carlisle … he hit the big time with Spurs … that 's when he became pals with Hoddle … at 29 his English career was wrecked by injury … he helped pioneer soccer in the states and then came back home again to coach … |
| 3 | Police found £42 worth of the goods in Skyrme 's bedroom . |
| 4 | She stood in the hazy light cast by the bulb in the ceiling , looking uncomfortable and angry , as she phoned Eddy Russell of the Drugs Squad with the information about Della Torre and the lorry due to arrive at Dover the next day . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been expecting it ever since I heard that they found Uncle Mosse underneath the floorboards . |
| 6 | When the Haldanes challenged the Campbell influence in Stirling , they promised Deacon Ellise of the hammermen that he should be made smith of the Castle and that a member of the tailor 's trade should replace the castle storeman . |
| 7 | He coached Arsenal to the Double , helped guide England to the semi-finals of the World Cup and is acknowledged as one of the supreme tacticians in European football . |
| 8 | This is another aspect of demographic change which has attracted considerable attention and triggered alarmist projections about the burdens and costs of care . |
| 9 | People maintained family hierarchy in the teeth of socio-economic differentiation , and they subordinated status distinctions beyond the threshold to the less flexible ones of family and marriage . |
| 10 | I first encountered Morina longifolia in the mountains of east Nepal on a ridge within sight of Kanchenjunga . |
| 11 | Hendry was nowhere near his best in the afternoon session but with Wattana , who beat Jimmy White in the semi-finals also making mistakes , Hendry was able to go into the interval with a narrow 4-3 lead . |
| 12 | When I first bought the vehicle five years ago I noticed gear oil in the boxes . |
| 13 | She studied car maintenance for the skills task . |
| 14 | Mr Shaban told AIBS representatives of the difficulties he had experienced in establishing Amnesty pre-groups in Gaza over the past three years . |
| 15 | In addition to the income from the rates collected from the parishes , the directors received cash payments from the fathers of illegitimate children by order of the magistrates , as well as the proceeds from the sale of lambs , calves , skins , wool , and the hire of horses . |
| 16 | ‘ This has really taken off for us in a big way , ’ George told Sunday Life after a sports luncheon at Belfast 's Europa Hotel on Friday . |
| 17 | The citizens advice bureaux evidence compared student incomes with the incomes of those who are in receipt of income support , which represents the minimum subsistence level below which no one in our society is meant to fall . |
| 18 | In the spring , Thomson , the largest tour operator , issued a bargain brochure , took full-page advertisements in the tabloid press and provoked banner headlines along the lines of ‘ Have a holiday in Spain for £59 ’ . |
| 19 | In 1866 he emigrated to Philadelphia , where he painted railway carriages in the workshops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co . |
| 20 | In 1236 , following a long legal battle , he secured visitation rights over the monks of Coventry . |
| 21 | I suffered shrapnel wounds in the buttocks and one arm . |
| 22 | Walker compared hand simulations of the predictions of the algorithms of Hobbs ( 1976 ) and Brennan , Friedman & Pollard ( 1987 : BFP ) on a set of naturally occurring texts . |
| 23 | Does the Prime Minister recall that , in 1962 , when he packed up work to look after his parents , he received unemployment benefit under the terms of the legislation introduced by the Labour Government of 1945-50 ? |
| 24 | ‘ Unfortunately , the ceiling we are working on suffered worm attack over the years and was restored in the 1940s using a wax resin , which turned it brown , and cellulose repairs , which shrank , creating further problems . |
| 25 | He interrupted Mr. Hallworth with the words , ‘ Why the hell do n't you get on with what you are paid to do and witness her signature ? ’ |
| 26 | As they walked , some threw Id alms to the cripples , lepers and Bangladeshi refugees who lined the way like a guard of honour , palms extended , heads bowed . |
| 27 | There were clashes on Oct. 2 in Bamenda , in anglophone North-West Cameroon , where demonstrators confronted security forces in the streets , defying a ban on public gatherings . |
| 28 | In France , a poll taken around the same time showed 75% approval for the Americans in the Gulf . |
| 29 | Second seed Amanda Coetzer of South Africa joined Martina Navratilova on the sidelines when she was beaten 7–6 6–2 by 17 year-old American Chanda Rubin . |
| 30 | Kenneth Fulcher demanded to know where his wife was and confronted Kevin Leonard on the stairs of his home . |