Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope . |
| 2 | In October 1981 , Ceauşescu repeated his direct intervention when the miners of Motru rioted and attacked the local Party HQ . |
| 3 | The first was meant to unseat Digital Equipment Corp 's PDP-11 on the glow of the IBM name alone , but was sent naked into the market with no software and became the ultimate dogsbody product , a computing resource for any whim that needed one , a computer without portfolio that never found a central role . |
| 4 | He achieved great success and became the leading landscape architect of the day . |
| 5 | 1742 ) , were also masons , the former practising in the Bristol area and the latter in London ; but William , the most successful member of the family , remained in Oxford and became the leading master mason in the town during a particularly active phase in its architectural history . |
| 6 | He effected his escape to France in June 1547 , and became the leading merchant captain of Dieppe . |
| 7 | He replied to Lang during the debate on the 1993 budget for the opposition and drafted the cultural policy chapter for his Party 's manifesto . |
| 8 | Right : Philip designed and made the circular dining table using smoky blue glass |
| 9 | They rained down like small coal from a sack , filling the air with choking dust which settled grimily over everything and made the whole world smell grey . |
| 10 | But just as the kettle was coming to the boil a black cloud billowed in through one of the open windows and enveloped the entire tea party . |
| 11 | To Miss D'Arcy he was Colonel Hope ; to Mary he had for a moment been Augustus ; to his new self , John alone ; with Joanna he had no name and experienced the inscrutable animal comfort of brief blank joy . |
| 12 | She went on to Baku , where she recorded in her journal information about the young naphtha/oil industry and described the Zoroastrian fire temple and the Maiden 's Tower . |
| 13 | It made seventy claims and described the two-channel stereo record adopted worldwide since 1958 , and foresaw quadrophonics . |
| 14 | He raised his gaze to the middle distance and caught the red button eye of the dinosaur squatting on the check tablecloth beside the vase of dahlias . |
| 15 | The 49-year-old Rolling Stone wined and dined the sultry millionaire model at the French mansion behind Jerry 's back , it was said last night . |
| 16 | Around 1876 Constance demolished the majority of the old foundry buildings , and built the present Camp Mill . |
| 17 | Smiling broadly to herself she closed the heavy wooden door behind us and fastened the little chain latch on to a nail on the adjacent door . |
| 18 | I wanted to wire the hedgehog up to some kind of heartbeat monitor so we could run out to resuscitate it if the machine stopped beeping regularly and pronounced the continuous monotone bleep of death that we all know from hospital drama . |
| 19 | We had thrown grenades before and used the LRAC rocket launcher so we were accustomed to the noise and strength of high-impact explosion . |
| 20 | They interviewed a random sample of eighty-six people in Sydney about recent life events , and used the General Health Questionnaire ( GHQ ) to gather information about any psychiatric symptoms . |
| 21 | London Transport did not wait for the delivery of the RM class buses and used the existing RT type for several years . |
| 22 | I wandered round the office and entered the windowless iron lung that they called a review room , heavy with the smell of exotic cheroots . |
| 23 | We pushed past the steward , re-crossed the cobbled yard and entered the main palace building . |
| 24 | In 1968 Fields and Stanbury updated Break 's UK study and found the net disincentive effect to have grown to 8% of the population . |
| 25 | The money raised by the medieval trustees responsible for the upkeep of the bridge was surplus to requirements , and enabled the bridge to become a landowner , in which capacity it has helped the poor of the town and built and maintained the old grammar school . |
| 26 | She flung open the window , grabbed a tea-towel and hooked the red-hot rice pan off the burner . |
| 27 | America had no established church and provided the free market place for religion with no state monopolies which Nonconformists wanted in England . |
| 28 | When the banks finally broke , the sea captured both arms of the river Rother , and created the present estuary south of Rye . |
| 29 | Tupper immediately took all his products off the store shelves and created the direct selling system with parties , games and contests to promote sales . |
| 30 | Okland was interviewed in one of the papers on why Frank was included and mentioned the strong Turkey game and also spoke about Frank not playing in Leeds : ’ Frank not playing is strange . |