Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | Police found £42 worth of the goods in Skyrme 's bedroom . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I first encountered Morina longifolia in the mountains of east Nepal on a ridge within sight of Kanchenjunga . |
| 6 | When I first bought the vehicle five years ago I noticed gear oil in the boxes . |
| 7 | She studied car maintenance for the skills task . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | In France , a poll taken around the same time showed 75% approval for the Americans in the Gulf . |
| 12 | This view dominated government policy towards the courts in the later nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Gaidar ( as Deputy Premier in charge of economic reform — see below for his transfer to the Finance Ministry ) pledged government help for the farmers , promising that they would continue to be eligible for preferential loans , and that a draft bill to release farmers ' sons from military service was in preparation . |
| 14 | Paramilitary border police patrolling the area fired tear gas into the crowds and stones were thrown in return ; some stones were thrown at Jews worshipping at the Western — or " Wailing " — Wall situated at the foot of the Temple Mount . |
| 15 | The marriage stopped working because we stopped talking , and when things started going wrong , instead of addressing the issues head on , I began volunteer work for the Samaritans . |
| 16 | Headed ‘ Magdalen College , Oxford ’ , it purports to come from someone called Verity Bough of the Students of Europe Patriotic League . |
| 17 | DeVore watched Berdichev move among the men gathered there in the garden room , more at ease now than he had ever been ; saw too how they looked to him now as a leader , a shaper of events , and noted with irony how different that was from how they had formerly behaved . |
| 18 | Encouragement of " unofficial movements " only strengthened TUC hostility to the Communists and this was , of course , reflected at Labour Party conferences and on the Labour National Executive , both of which were dominated by full-time union officials . |
| 19 | However , the geese also fed extensively on grass marsh round Chichester Harbour after 1973/74 , and Campbell ( 1946 ) , during a study of the food of Wigeon and Brent Geese in Britain , recorded animal matter in the stomachs of three Brent from Essex and five from Ulster , out of a total of 28 stomachs examined . |
| 20 | He hates the invaders , from not-all-that-stout Cortes via de Soto , the first to encounter the Cherokees , and the treacherous English and French who made life hell for the Mohawks , right up to the Quebec police who fired on the Mohawks as they protected their remnant of land against the building of a golf course . |
| 21 | They also took Devon North from the Tories . |
| 22 | That autumn saw Eva standing on the steps of the dark brick building in Denmark Hill , with its high surrounding wall , and predominant tower . |
| 23 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 24 | We brought Debbie Dent onto the streets of Oxford to find out if shoppers would be fooled … |
| 25 | They saw Sharon standing in the plastic-flowers aisle . |
| 26 | David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon . |
| 27 | A student who offered shopowners immunity from the activities of ragweek in return for donations to charity was held by the trial judge not to have used menaces . |
| 28 | Their determination to win at any cost , brought world criticism as the details of massacres such as Mai Lai emerged . |
| 29 | I planned participant observation among the non-activists at the workplace and the activists at the branch . |
| 30 | The project follows up a previous ESRC supported research programme into the roles of expectations and feedbacks in empirical economics , which developed some of the new tools and computer software to be used in the present research . |