Example sentences of "[vb past] an [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronald Searle created an infamous girls ' school called what ? |
| 2 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 3 | This is the video to huff and puff away to in the privacy of your living room — it received an overall thumbs-up as safe , enjoyable , well-presented , high quality exercise . |
| 4 | Second , while two thirds of respondents espoused an open systems policy , in reality few are adopting it — again , open systems is regarded as a technology to keep the computing professionals amused rather than something that will show real business benefits . |
| 5 | The London conference approved an initial dollars 150,000,000 programme of pilot projects and studies , including detailed hydraulic investigation of some of the 55 rivers running through the country . |
| 6 | After a triumphant journey of 30-odd feet , unfortunately executed backwards , Julia propelled herself neatly into the nearest restaurant and ordered an early rösti . |
| 7 | When bad weather threatened an American Airlines flight from Chicago to New York the pilot , it emerges , offered his passengers the choice : shall we turn back or go on ? |
| 8 | The two leaders on June 17 signed an unprecedented arms reduction agreement which would eventually cut the two powers ' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , going far beyond the START treaty signed by President Bush and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |
| 9 | He made an absolute Bollocks of the job down the road here at Bradford Shitty , and he was one of the most unpopular players at Elland road during the ‘ golden era ’ . |
| 10 | Hezbollah on Oct. 25 attacked an Israeli personnel carrier in Israel 's self-declared " security zone " , killing five Israeli soldiers and seriously wounding five others . |
| 11 | Leaving the harbour high on the Pultney side of the river I passed an old folks ' home looking out over that cold North Sea ; only the dawn in winter can show any warmth . |
| 12 | This implied an underlying ex-rights price of 195p after the old shares had gone ex-dividend . |
| 13 | In the 1940s Ewan McColl , the folksinger , and Joan Littlewood , the playwright and theatre director , recorded an old Dales lead-miner singing a song called " Fourpence a Day " which tells more truthfully than the industrial archaeologists ' sometimes ebullient picture of the grandeur of Victorian enterprise , the real benefits of lead-mining for the many — simply hardship and poverty . |
| 14 | With only ninepence in their pockets , they founded an old boys ' association that went on to include a thriving club ( albeit minus clubhouse ) , a sports field and four football teams competing in the Zingari and Old Boys Associations ' leagues . |
| 15 | Roderick and and his brother Mark , 25 , inherited an estimated Pounds 500,000 last year after winning a court bid to have their parents declared ‘ presumed dead . ’ |
| 16 | Five Ethiopians hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines plane soon after it left Addis Ababa airport on Aug. 28 . |
| 17 | Two men and a woman armed with grenades hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 727 airliner on a flight from Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia to Addis Ababa , the capital , on Sept. 4 and forced the pilot to land in Djibouti [ for Aug. 28 hijacking see p. 39042 ] . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough and Cleveland , who finished fifth in the opening fixture at Leicester , completed an intermediate hurdles double when Beverley Sowersby won the B race . |
| 19 | The Commission subsequently issued an interim measures decision which , amongst other things , required Akzo 's UK subsidiary to return to the profit levels that it had been applying before the alleged threats were made and implemented . |
| 20 | JUNIOR education minister William Shelton did not know whether he was coming or going last week when he gave an experimental communications system known as Project Universe its first public airing . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's never happened to me before , ’ gasped an incredulous Cummins . |
| 22 | Yawl ran an excellent Oaks trial in Wednesday 's Tripleprint Lupe Stakes at Goodwood , rallying bravely to go down by a head to Gisarne . |
| 23 | The Dementia Services Development Centre undertook a number of evaluative projects and continued an active publications programme . |
| 24 | James had an extra Goldilocks |
| 25 | Handyman Paddy Whiteland and his wife had an all expenses paid two weeks holiday in Spain , including a Royal car to the airport . |
| 26 | The Western Suburbs second-rower , who had a spell with with Castleford five years ago , had an outstanding Ashes series against Great Britain this summer . |
| 27 | The LEA , which had an equal opportunities policy for its education service , was not the admissions authority . |
| 28 | GLARRYFORD YFC had an entertaining parents and friends night in Killymurris Presbyterian Church Hall when members contributed to a comprehensive programme , including several choral and drama items . |
| 29 | Close to Minton in age , Wallis lived with his mother in Roehampton and had an old-fashioned politeness and charm . |
| 30 | The other time I remember was when William the chromium platers in Street ye got bombed , with a high explosive bomb , but there was , there was no one hurt that I remember , and then the Halleys the tent people had an incendiary bombs and got burnt out , at the same night that they dropped some incendiary bombs on the bus depot in Road , they , they were a lot of work for the fire brigade , but comparatively speaking with , with Birmingham I think Walsall got off very lightly as regards the bombing , as there was no heavy industry around here . |