Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total is slightly up on 1991 when DEC sold a total of 5,225 workstations in the UK worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |
| 2 | Millwall boss Mick McCarthy made an approach for the striker three weeks ago , but was given the cold shoulder . |
| 3 | The television series Twin Peaks produced a rash of books that will be read in true page-turner style by legions of devotees . |
| 4 | Watching a small , speckled lizard sunning himself on the trunk of one of the trees , Luce made an attempt to push her uneasy fancies aside and fulfil her half of the bargain . |
| 5 | During World War II ICI operated a factory making anti-knock additives for aviation fuel and Gibson was in charge of the process work . |
| 6 | On March 12 Hawke announced a package of market-liberalization measures designed to make the economy more competitive and to reduce the current account deficit . |
| 7 | In its first full financial year , RBIC made a profit of more than £4 million but even better results are promised . |
| 8 | A CAR salesman sold a vehicle under a false description , a court heard yesterday . |
| 9 | The only judgments concerned a feeling of ‘ warmth ’ in which there was a clear discrimination between the ‘ frame ’ and the ‘ interior ’ ; ‘ bright-dull ’ , ‘ makes use of colour ’ and ‘ made by flicks of the brush ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Not long after , the Athenians made a peace with the Spartans and their allies for thirty years , giving up Nisaia , Pegai , Troizen and Achaia , their possessions in the Peloponnese ’ ( Thuc. i.115.1 ) . |
| 11 | The cykesound became a speck on the road , and grew bigger as it approached . |
| 12 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 13 | His meditation became a poem , his thinking became a song . |
| 14 | Rolle seems to witness to an experience where the barrier to the direct experience of that joy is lifted ; the Word that informs all words , the harmony behind all music , becomes real to him ; " my meditation became a poem … |
| 15 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 16 | Most good judges believed that Fender 's true metier was as a legspinner ; but his low boredom threshold meant that sometimes variety became an end in itself . |
| 17 | POLLY PECK is selling its barely profitable textile subsidiary , Polly Peck Far East , to a Hong Kong-controlled British Virgin Islands registered company in preference to the privatisation proposals announced a month ago , writes Robin Stoddart . |
| 18 | " Well , perhaps — no , I do n't think so , " somehow Lalage conveyed a feeling of being unwanted . |
| 19 | He tells us in his autobiography that this decision produced a breakdown in his wife 's health , but it was all part of his efforts to become a pure Buddhist leader and hence bring benefit to burma . |
| 20 | Aged nineteen , never kissed back and greener than Kermit , I was sipping Crème de Menthe in the basement of a jazz club , when an elderly roué ( as in twenty-two ) from the Oxford Union made a pronouncement which made my spine stiffen . |
| 21 | The conviction that what moves men is money became a commandment among the Left of the labour movement during the unprecedented waves of industrial militancy in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 22 | Harvey produced a couple of cigars and we looked at the glow above the dark city and smoked , and Harvey said , ‘ It 's a millionaire 's toy , ’ and I said , ‘ Yes , with eight million working parts . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 24 | At a time when graduates are finding that academic success is not an automatic open sesame to the job market — a recent advertisement for a relatively junior clerical/admin post at the University produced a crop of graduate applications , including at least one First Class Honours graduate — it is heartwarming to read of a Nottingham man whose business and his hobby stem directly from his campus experience . |
| 25 | it really was So erm but I do n't know , I , I think if Jim got a ticket , if he got two tickets and he said do you wan na come ? |
| 26 | A house has stood on this site since the year 1216 , when the Bishop of Lincoln ordained a vicarage here , but it has been rebuilt over and over again , and last of all in 1856 . |
| 27 | The impresario made a face . |
| 28 | While Montaine endured a typing school above the dry-cleaners in Reine les Falaises , Jean-Claude worked on the attic to make it habitable . |
| 29 | Orient Express announced a loss of $5 million for the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 30 | After a number of rows , Peckinpah got a double to complete the scene . |