Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also met the police station er Sergeant and and after discussing further the matters with him erm then I was happy an armed operation was er was necessary . |
| 2 | It was a creature known in the Reconciled Dominions as a voider , one of a brutal species that haunted the wastes north of the Lenten Way . |
| 3 | We passed the police sentry who grunted a sleepy greeting . |
| 4 | Taking his hint , Fei Yen straightened the p'i p'a in her lap and , after a moment 's concentration , began to play . |
| 5 | She laughed more and Tucker was smiling , intoxicated by the sound escaping from her , which shook the sofa , reverberated in the rafters and made the parrots screech . |
| 6 | In England , where the increasing public appeal of the Varsity game battles administrators , the wise heads of the RFU made the Students Union the RFU 's fifth division , thus allowing the students to find their place in England 's playing hierarchy . |
| 7 | This made the limitations clause even more interesting , for the older man ( and no doubt his ancestral assumer ) had quite obviously used not a swepe or balista as the charge , but an almost identical engine of war known as a mangonel , in witty and canting allusion to the family name as used by them . |
| 8 | The jacket was very fitted and single-breasted , cutting in sharp at the waist — which made the trousers balloon right out . |
| 9 | He who made the cunts talk went straightaway into the castle ; all ran to salute him and wished to welcome him warmly , in which he could take great pleasure . ) |
| 10 | My description of a week in Almeriá , in Spain , horrified the features editor . |
| 11 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 12 | I asked the personnel director . |
| 13 | But the problem with the ladies room is too small I asked the ladies captain what they did . |
| 14 | Visitors often pop into reception , one caller recently brought in a vole wrapped up in paper and asked the girls advice as to what to do with it . |
| 15 | Mr McNally then asked the police officer a series of questions . |
| 16 | ‘ When I vacated the office I asked the Rates Agency to send me an adjusted bill , but they sent it to the office and I did not get it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you crew ? ’ asked the Customs man . |
| 18 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |
| 19 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |
| 20 | He checked the police ID cards , and finally had to accept that the police would vouch for the social workers . |
| 21 | Similarly , it was he who fought the photographs case [ quoted in original paper ] through to the Court of Appeal , and was successful . |
| 22 | For the songwriter-pianist-producer led the blues queen to believe that she was signed to Columbia Records , when , in fact , she was actually signed to Williams and he was pocketing half of every recording fee . |
| 23 | Burun led the troopers north-east , a diagonal path across Sipotai 's projected route towards Pesth . |
| 24 | Detective Sergeant Peter Van Schaick , who led the police investigation , said : ‘ He was trying to be the man about town . |
| 25 | SOUL singer Eddie Kendricks , who led The Temptations group to a string of hits in the 1960s , has died of lung cancer in Alabama . |
| 26 | It was six minutes before Didcot attacked the visitors goal as Mark O'Hara shot into a crowded goalmouth . |
| 27 | Carvajal and his associates raided the warehouse , kidnapped the customs official , and liberated the logwood . |
| 28 | Mr Wilson now finds himself declaring his belief that it was ‘ the conduct of Sir Johannes and his cronies ’ which discredited the honours system , not the granting of the original accolade . |
| 29 | He promised the Turks assistance not because he wished to establish a protectorate over them , but because he wanted their regime to survive and Britain had been unable to assist them . |
| 30 | On Maundy Thursday , I had ceased to be a member of the top class Infants and now entered the Boys School , which at that time catered for seven to fourteen year olds — the latter being school leaving age . |