Example sentences of "and [vb past] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County Council extended the old Railway School in 1906 and built a new Boys School in Bounty Street in 1913 , this being extended in January 1973 . |
| 2 | Joe said he ‘ drove like the devil ’ and found a parked police van . |
| 3 | In October 1987 the army clashed with an armed group in Gaza and later arrested over fifty Islamic Jihad suspects and uncovered a large arms cache . |
| 4 | At one stage he turned the car round and rammed a following police car , nudging it aside . |
| 5 | Liz Roberts graduated from Durham University with a degree in Chinese and joined a small tours company specialising in holidays to China . |
| 6 | It certainly worked this week ( hic , belch ) when we popped over to France , the land of garlic , CHARLES AZNAVOUR and rakishly tilted berets , and discovered a Heavenly Records party in full swing . |
| 7 | Also , in 1971–2 , US support for détente increased until , at Moscow , in May 1972 , Nixon and Brezhnev finally met and signed a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT ) limiting the number of inter-continental range missiles on each side . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard Co has reduced prices on the six members of its existing HP700/RX X-Windows station series by between $500 an $1,000 and introduced a new 17″ colour 17Cs monitor with 4Mb RAM at $4,700 . |
| 9 | The Dementia Services Development Centre undertook a number of evaluative projects and continued an active publications programme . |