Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply because the first mass-selling device , Hewlett-Packard 's LaserJet , used a laser-based imaging system we have grown accustomed to calling them laser printers . |
| 2 | So before Forte Travelodge installed a new booking system it set up a trial in a mock-up of its operations centre . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , they also found that the professional newcomers to the area were often upset by the environmental consequences of modern farming ( see Chapters 8 and 9 ) and since they lacked a rural power base they formed environmental pressure groups to protest against the farmers , thus creating a new form of social division in the rural community . |
| 4 | Norman became a four-handicap polo player He was devoted to sport , golfing around the world 's best courses and still finding time to be an active member of the Royal Yacht Squadron , He owned a 70-ton yacht called Revive . |
| 5 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
| 6 | For although his daughter Maire never became a top ballet star she is a member of a highly successful family band . |
| 7 | it 's that or a new head torch , but if I got a new head torch it , it perhaps but they 're about , they 're about thirty quid I think |
| 8 | Now if you took a medical practice booklet they range from three hundred and ninety up to twelve hundred . |
| 9 | Yeah we bought a new bedroom suite I think that 's about the first thing |
| 10 | As the DCSL recalls , the IS coordinator defended the demands made on the local library on the grounds that : If we had a decent school library I would n't need to do it . |
| 11 | Although the rumours of the Queen 's supposed adulteries were real enough and , given the prevailing double standard in sexual matters , much more shocking than the stories of the King 's mistresses , none the less if either of them ever had a romantic love affair it is likely to have been Henry rather than Eleanor . |