Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [noun prp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made McIllvanney a gold-plated pimp , though he preferred to describe himself as a ‘ leisure-agent ’ ; however , he usually had the grace to smile when he used that label . |
| 2 | That made Kezia a ‘ Lower Breed ’ on two counts . |
| 3 | This got Susan a job as soon as one was available . |
| 4 | In pre-Tom Watson days , this made Thomson the greatest British Open champion of the era . |
| 5 | I owe them the worst : they all but destroyed me " ) , all this made Nizan an obvious candidate for a highly sectarian , aggressive , isolationist communist party . |
| 6 | All this made Zeinab an interesting woman but a rather unusual one . |
| 7 | This caused Rajiv a great deal of turmoil , particularly as others of his friends had been baptised by immersion in the local Baptist church . |
| 8 | For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true . |
| 9 | The French gave Bismarck the opportunity for this . |
| 10 | Hill , who survived a late collision with Berger 's Ferrari lost a lot of time in the traffic and this gave Gerhard the opportunity to close up in the closing stages . |
| 11 | This gave Ian the idea of setting up a similar , small-scale , homely establishment in the Highlands . |
| 12 | This gave Joan a taste of freedom , but not yet enough . |
| 13 | This gave Conner the chance , when the breeze was light , to build up a sufficient cushion to protect him from Kanza 's better moderate air speed as the sea breeze grew . |
| 14 | Psychologically this did England no good at all , of course , and the batsmen struggled to 145 off 46 overs , the reduction in the number of overs caused by West Indies bowling so slowly . |
| 15 | ‘ Very few gave Boro a chance at Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 16 | Andy McDowell 's 43 gave Liverpool a good base . |
| 17 | Perhaps , too , in army terms — and some considered Egypt an occupied country — Head of Political Intelligence . |
| 18 | That roused Ruth a little . |
| 19 | And so Maldita the malevolent became Fantasma the fantastic . |
| 20 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 21 | When Mariner 10 reached Mercury the following data on planetary magnetic fields were to hand : the Earth rotates quickly , almost certainly has a large molten iron core , and has a strong dipole field ; Mars rotates quickly , but probably has no molten iron core , and has no detectable dipole field ; Venus probably has a sizeable molten iron core but rotates slowly , and has no detectable dipole field ( perhaps also because it has no solid inner core — see section 4.2 ) ; the Moon rotates slowly , probably has no liquid iron core , and has no detectable dipole field . |
| 22 | A birdie two at the 32nd gave Rafferty the lead and he went two up at the 34th where Lyle , disturbed mid-swing by the clicking of a camera , pulled his tee shot into the trees on the left . |
| 23 | All the cancer patients had adenocarcinomas : two had Dukes 's stage A , eight had B , and six had C. The polyps varied in size from 0.5 cm to 1.0 cm and five showed dysplastic changes ( one mild and four moderate dysplasia ) . |
| 24 | Solihull referee Vic Callow showed Pascucci the red card and booked Aspinall and Oliver Bierhoff during an 80th-minute clash . |
| 25 | The events of 1934 showed Joyce the propagandist in a different and more chilling role . |
| 26 | His elbow scraping antics on the YZR250 in ‘ 89 made Ruggia an instant GP legend and Aprilia were keen to win his talents . |
| 27 | When in 1574 , Rudolf II made Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire , he gave the Jews yet greater security . |
| 28 | 11 ) called Corinth and Chalkis the handcuffs of Greece , and the importance of Corinth to Macedon , which this comparison indicates , goes back to 338 when Philip II made Corinth the physical centre of his new Greek league ( though whether the meeting-chamber has been identified on the ground is disputed ) . |
| 29 | THE BIG FOUR-0 GAVE NIGEL A BIT OF A JOG . |
| 30 | A poll published on Jan. 29 gave Bush an approval rating of 79 per cent — the highest yet achieved by his administration — and also suggested that 75 per cent of those questioned approved of the war . |