Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signe wrapped her yellow oilskin arms around my neck and planted a kiss on me . |
| 2 | Lang has also played a part in the admission of rock and graffiti to the cultural fold and given a helping hand to the young unemployed with subsidies for their participation on archaeological digs . |
| 3 | His patience exhausted , he called another agent and booked a dearer ticket . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the results of the meeting , although not legally binding , carried considerable moral and political force and marked a formal commitment by the East European countries to Western-style free markets and convertible currencies . |
| 5 | It was a policy which reinforced traditional methods in the older sectors of industry and placed a premium on short-term production at the expense of innovative development . |
| 6 | Sharpe looked down the high street , half expecting to see French Dragoons galloping into the small village , but it was only the Prince of Orange who had abandoned his carriage and taken a horse from one of his escort . |
| 7 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |
| 8 | And the parties could fulfil their promises only if they presented a uniform program to the electorate and achieved a cohesive majority in the House of Commons to carry through that program . |
| 9 | Now he held the wheel in his long-fingered brown hands , tossed a tambourine in my lap and marked a beat : ‘ Wahida , wahida , wahida ’ — ‘ One , one , one . ’ |
| 10 | For the purposes of n.m.r. measurements three consecutive monomer units in a chain are considered to define a configuration and called a triad . |
| 11 | This effect lessened our national productive capacity and placed a higher burden on the primary manufacturing industries like Engineering , Car manufacture , Aircraft makers , in order to keep an increasing number of nonproducers . |
| 12 | There 's a nursery as well with places for a hundred children aged between one and eight.The smallest children are taken off their mothers hands while they 're out at work and given a meal each day . |
| 13 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 14 | And churning and the carrying water for er for to for for the household and needed a lot of water when you were churning to wash the the butter properly . |
| 15 | In 1746 , one of Cumberland 's officers on his way back from victory at Culloden had invaded the very same hut and raped a girl ( his troopers held her down ) then strangled the grandmother to command her silence . |
| 16 | As long as Keynes pitched his arguments for credit expansion within the bounds of orthodoxy , he dominated the proceedings of the Committee and achieved a degree of consensus . |
| 17 | The congress also confirmed Sanjaasurengiyn Dzorig as the MDU 's chief co-ordinator and elected a general co-ordinating council and a presidium . |
| 18 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 19 | Recent work has focused on the gastrin acid secretion feedback loop and identified a number of potential pathogenetic pathways . |
| 20 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 21 | I was put in touch with the British Refugee Council and given a room in one of their hostels . |
| 22 | Within half an hour he had contacted those he trusted on the council and given a good account as to why he should fill the vacant seat . |
| 23 | The remaining space was used for Music , Drama and Recital and incorporated a minstrel 's gallery , with ancillary rooms providing additional accommodation for Music and Recording . |
| 24 | Mr Litmus had returned to his lab and prepared a small bottle of acid , hoping it was enough to burn through the metal bars . |
| 25 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
| 26 | Then she coaxed her employer into a fresh nightgown and placed a clean , although old-fashioned day-cap of cotton and lace upon the freshly washed and combed hair . |
| 27 | It almost goes without saying that he also had fine , Beatle-cropped brown hair and affected a close-clipped beard with the dense consistency of fur . |
| 28 | that the original outline application retain the bungalow and built a house towards the rear of the site . |
| 29 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 30 | Julia had felt like a character in a fairy tale , whisked out of humdrum existence and given a glimpse of perfection . |