Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Someone , probably a junior malai officer who knew the jungle , had stolen his impermeable paper earlier . ) |
| 2 | At Lien College school leavers were participating in a rural skills course which included carpentry , forestry , metal work , building skills and fish farming as well as agriculture . |
| 3 | Three members of a Colombian drugs cartel who used Oxford language schools as a cover have each been jailed for ten years . |
| 4 | He actually fired a public relations officer who had dared argue that the real sales figures were one or two percentage points short of the goal . |
| 5 | A FIXED ODDS punter who attempted a huge swindle with a forged coupon was placed on probation yesterday . |
| 6 | A dissenting voice came from a Financial Times reporter who had recently visited the northern town of Kompong Thom , briefly captured by the Khmers Rouges in mid-June [ see p. 37533 ] . |
| 7 | A 23-YEAR-OLD customs man who drugged , bound and indecently assaulted his woman boss in a revenge attack after being passed over for promotion was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in London yesterday . |
| 8 | Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend . |
| 9 | The alarm was raised shortly afterwards by a milkman and officers in a passing police car who spotted the smoke and flames . |
| 10 | A former member of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , Sgt. Felix Ndimene , said that he had served in a special forces unit which had carried out the massacre in September 1990 of 26 passengers in a Johannesburg-Soweto train [ see p. 37698 ] , an incident which had provoked weeks of violence in the Johannesburg region between ANC and Inkatha supporters . |
| 11 | Col. Sutherland is a Special Forces veteran who enjoyed a distinguished career . |
| 12 | 10 years later , in spite of a massive police investigation which named the officers guilty of Blair 's death , not a single policeman has faced prosecution or disciplinary action . |
| 13 | This was an important mission , yet they had sent him a minor police official who seemed to have little standing or influence . |