Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drew a rolls royce and not a plane . |
| 2 | Over the weekend she helped a police artist draw an impression of her attacker . |
| 3 | A MAN who successfully traced a forces pal through the columns of The Northern Echo said yesterday it had brought bad news . |
| 4 | Among dozens of companies reporting yesterday was speciality chemicals group Laporte which reported a profits slide of ten per cent and saw its shares slip . |
| 5 | Mr Kluge built a communications conglomerate , Metromedia Inc , from scratch . |
| 6 | She stopped a police car and pointed to it . |
| 7 | One of them grabbed the youth by the neck as he approached a police van in Tarling Street , Stepney , east London , telling officers he believed the youth had been involved in an attack on an elderly woman . |
| 8 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 9 | We used a wages robbery for a couple of them some time later . |
| 10 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 11 | Now on Friday we were saying that Gloucester were on the right track … that West Hartlepool would be railroaded by them on saturday … bad news … the cherry and whites suffered a points failure … they went and lost by six points to twenty one |
| 12 | The lash was wound tightly around the heavy handle ; it resembled a police baton . |
| 13 | He told a commons committee debating the order : ‘ It is quite misleading to describe several orders as landlordism of the sea . |
| 14 | In Simcock v Rhodes ( 1978 ) 66 Cr App R 192 the court held that an offence was committed where a group of 15 youths told a police sergeant to ‘ fuck off ’ . |
| 15 | The Merseyside chief constable , Jim Sharples , told a police authority meeting that his officers were acting with due sensitivity . |
| 16 | Alix Micklemas part-owned a hi-res tattoo salon three blocks east of Club Eleusis . |
| 17 | In the fields of glacial and periglacial geomorphology the first modern textbook ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) was soon followed by others ( Price , 1973 ) ; and later work utilized a systems framework ( Andrews , 1975 ; Sugden and John , 1976 ) as indicated later ( p. 159 ) . |
| 18 | While we were in Christchurch there was a ‘ Festival of Romance ’ , in which we went to several concerts , exhibitions and lectures , and on the final night the orchestra played a fireworks concert beside the lake in Hagley Park . |
| 19 | She originates from Coimbra in Portugal where she obtained a Masters Degree in Germanic Studies . |
| 20 | Minutes later it rammed a police car which tried to stop it and headed up the M5 . |
| 21 | A DRIVER rammed a police car during a high-speed chase , Teesside Crown Court heard . |
| 22 | Dart , of Leeds , also shot a boy of 17 in the leg with an airgun dart and was in a stolen Cavalier SRi car which rammed a police van . |
| 23 | Or you joined a sports club . |
| 24 | ANDES headquarters were returned and the ministry opened a grants programme for the children of the 33 teachers assassinated the previous year . |
| 25 | The meeting came as Diana opened a police station in Wolverhampton . |
| 26 | He opened a communications channel . |
| 27 | TONY LLOYD , local MP and Labour party Shadow spokesman on trade and industry , opened a careers convention at Loreto Sixth Form College , Moss Side , Manchester , during October . |
| 28 | When he asked a police colonel who came to the scene why the elderly couple 's flat had been blown up , the officer replied : ‘ You should have given us your correct address , Comrade Ardzinov . ’ |
| 29 | He passed a police car on the bridge . |
| 30 | Indeed reason would infer the existence of a wall , especially if the town became a civitas capital , and even more so if it became the capital of the late-formed province of Valentia . |