Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hunt DOUBLE Echo , easy winner of the Crawley Warren Handicap at York on Saturday , will make a quick reappearance in the Royal Hunt Cup next week , for which the gelding has picked up a 7lbs penalty . |
| 2 | WORLD heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe has turned down an Pounds 8 million offer to defend his title against Lennox Lewis . |
| 3 | Dolly had stirred up a hornets ' nest when she pinched the wallet , and he had n't made it any better by steaming the letter open . |
| 4 | but of course , it had kind of stirred up a hornets ' nest ! |
| 5 | The largest companies have drawn up a criteria which demand inter alia that new book purchases must be based on a stock turn of one year ( in other words , the whole print run has to sell out within one year of US publication ) and that the projected gross margin must not be less than 50% . |
| 6 | One had to forget — because one could not live with the thought — that this graceful , fragile , tender young woman with those eyes , that smile ( those gardens and snows in the background ) had been brought in a cattle car to an extermination camp and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart , into the gentle heart that one had heard beating under one 's lips in the dusk of the past . |
| 7 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 8 | And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own . |
| 9 | Glasgow Polytechnic has set up a graduates association and would like to her from any graduates or diplomates . |
| 10 | In a similar move , Sybase has set up a tools technology group and a database unit . |
| 11 | Wakefield Council had set up an Adaptations and Disability Unit , bringing together staff from social services , environmental health and housing departments . |
| 12 | ‘ By the time I was just 22 , I had run up a clothes debt of nearly £4,000 ’ |
| 13 | A motive for the killing of the father-of-four has yet to be established , although police have not ruled out a drugs link . |
| 14 | The superintendent folded up a chapati . |
| 15 | Several new plant species were recorded for the reserve but their most interesting find was of signs of a badger that had dug out a bees nest from the ground . |