Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most textile plants are built near a big sewerage plant , not in the middle of the countryside like ours , ’ explained Dai Jones , whose responsibility it soon became to find a means of solving the problem . |
| 2 | It involved using a cannon to fire a harpoon carrying an explosive grenade . |
| 3 | Richard Duriez and Annette Tibbles helped to plan a series of attacks by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 4 | As well as this , in August we helped orchestrate a series of practical workshops at the London Print Workshop . |
| 5 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 6 | Bacon , however , soon came into financial difficulties and he tried to foil a £90 debt owed to a local stonemason by forging a receipt . |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody has come over here and tried to win a series . |
| 8 | A 50% increase in the sales team to 9,000 helped spark a 124% profits surge to £6.3m in the six months to September 12 . |
| 9 | AS UNITED were booed off the pitch , a supporter leaned into the director 's box and tried to thrust a £5 note into the hands of Amer Midani , urging him to buy out the chairman , Martin Edwards . |
| 10 | Instead , the administration first tried to get a $16 billion stimulus package through Congress . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 12 | Then we tried to get a pair of shoes , also a standard model . |
| 13 | BROOKSIDE actor Dean Sullivan — villain Jimmy Corkhill in the TV soap — grabbed three art gallery vandals after they tried to wreck a £500 painting . |
| 14 | Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) . |
| 15 | A massive tribal gathering at Altamira helped to stop a $500 million loan to build hydroelectric dams which would have caused untold environmental damage . |
| 16 | Over his shoulder I 'd seen a pair of beat coppers walking by . |
| 17 | And that made me wonder if you were in it , too , and he 'd had a rendezvous at the cottage . |
| 18 | There 's a poster up in erm , and these two people that are drug addicts , and said like , did you see that I 'd drawn a pair of ears on one of them , turned around and seen Shane and he 's like his mate was the other one , were n't it ? |
| 19 | ‘ The idea first came to me when I was at college and Paul Watson , a BBC producer , came to do a series of lectures . |
| 20 | The pair were reported to have been at odds for some time with one major area of disagreement believed to concern a £2.2m Venables attempt to land England defender Des Walker from Sampdoria . |
| 21 | She thought she 'd married a pair of muscular , sheltering arms and what she 'd got was a snivelling kid still frightened of Mummy . |
| 22 | The technology may also form the core of a specialised network server , with IBM expected to ship a Mach 3.0 implementation next year . |
| 23 | Luckily they chose experimental animals which happened to include a species sensitive to one of the new agents under trial . |
| 24 | Imagine Plenty , then , when the Alice Liddell arrived ferrying a pair of cabaret artistes , as a giant paralysed space habitat under makeshift redevelopment . |
| 25 | A happy precedent already exists : three years ago the Academy agreed to abandon a series of spelling changes that it had proposed in 1975 , but which had never found their way into common usage . |
| 26 | Craig Melia , 30 , from Stretchley , near Sheffield , admitted stealing a pair of £22.50 jeans from Marks and Spencer in Darlington on March 21 . |
| 27 | I also enjoyed producing a series of Gilbert & Sullivan operas , using orchestra , chorus , soloists and actors . |
| 28 | Development work continued and in about 1980 they began to launch a series of compact lamps , with tube diameters as little as 16 mm , in novel and innovative shapes and sizes . |
| 29 | It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded . |
| 30 | In April 1982 , with the assistance of Hill and Knowlton ( a public relations company ) , the company began publishing a series of brochures entitled R.S. Moves to Weldon . |