Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN Ringo Starr announced himself in Cancun , Mexico , he was wined and dined , chauffered and given a week of radio interviews . |
| 2 | In the second half , Thame came more in to the game and created a couple of chances , however in the sixty fifth minute , Sean Liden won the ball on the halfway line , his long ball found Gary Weaving who turned and placed a low shot past Mayhew to make it one nil . |
| 3 | I 'm fed up to here with being liked and admired and called a proper bloody goldmine and the next Barbra Streisand . |
| 4 | Because the internal fabric and walls of the flats always remained cold , it meant that when any warm moist air was produced when people breathed or boiled a kettle , the steam condensed on the cold surfaces which was the ideal breeding conditions for the fungus . |
| 5 | After a couple of minutes , one of them returned and placed a hand on Beattie 's shoulder and said that he was arresting him under Section 10 and Schedule 1 of the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act . |
| 6 | Robyn swallowed and released a small breath . |
| 7 | At a time when many authentic works were being rediscovered and marketed , Joni conceived and painted a large number of fragmentary works . |
| 8 | In the past , if a government lost a vote in Parliament over a major policy issue like the Maastricht treaty , it automatically resigned and called a general election . |
| 9 | In the Summer Term of 1989 the LEA published and distributed a short booklet ( Leeds City Council 1989e ) which was ‘ intended to help parents to appreciate what constitutes the best primary school practice and also to highlight aspects of education that the Authority wishes to promote ’ . |
| 10 | Its effect was remembered well into the nineteenth century in Birmingham ; at that later time the campaigners against apprenticeship in the West Indies reproduced and distributed a magazine plate of a Jamaican treadmill on which apprentices were employed , in the conviction that pictorial representations have a far more powerful influence on the mind than letter press descriptions ' . |