Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 2 | Chen said in a message to employees that the Eau Claire , Wisconsin company had designed and tested a prototype of what would be the world 's fastest supercomputer , and industry executives familiar with the project separately told Reuter that the prototype appeared to be a viable machine with a solid architecture . |
| 3 | Steven Holmes , a pupil of Handsworth Grammar School in Birmingham , designed and painted a headboard which we carry on the front of the locomotive . |
| 4 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 5 | The men it seems , were utterly overwhelmed by the need to be thus entreated and made a response so gallant , ( alas , unrecorded ) that the ladies in return ( on June 26th ) offered the ‘ Ladies ’ Cup ’ trophy ‘ in recognition of the kindnesses received ’ . |
| 6 | AN angry hippo has attacked and killed a woman in South Africa 's northern Transvaal province , after it smashed its way through an electric fence in the Mabelingwe nature reserve , police said yesterday . |
| 7 | The girl had grinned and taken a gulp of iced tea . |
| 8 | The project seems certain to have supplemented and accelerated a number of cross-curricular developments , not least by bringing departmental representatives together on the library committee and raising staff awareness of curricular innovation and pedagogical reforms . |
| 9 | Following reinstatement Mr Dane has resigned and submitted a letter of resignation which has been accepted by the board , ’ it said . |
| 10 | The Council have considered and approved a review of financial strategy for the Society to 1997 , the main aims of which are to : |
| 11 | WHEN Ringo Starr announced himself in Cancun , Mexico , he was wined and dined , chauffered and given a week of radio interviews . |
| 12 | The BM is designed to accept as input a setting of some of its visible switches , and provide as output settings of the remaining visible switches . |
| 13 | He pauses when asked a question . |
| 14 | As times when you have been very busy and may have missed or delayed a meal , your blood glucose levels can fall . |
| 15 | He is an internationally recognised expert in the economic and traffic impact of large developments , having presented and published a number of papers around the world . |
| 16 | I mean it could have been different it could have got out of control and then everybody would have turned and pointed a finger and that would have been awful . |
| 17 | Ramsey was not moved and printed a reply . |
| 18 | She must 've sneaked into the pantry one day when nobody was looking and taken a bite out of that jelly . |
| 19 | To achieve this , the Museum has built and flown a fleet of replicas . |
| 20 | It is true that the Spanish-American novel has entered the mainstream of world literature in that it is informed by the major intellectual currents of our age , in that its exponents share the artistic and philosophical preoccupations of modern writers in general , and in that it has consciously sought and attained a universality that earlier Spanish-American fiction sometimes lacked . |
| 21 | On the strength of a prayer from a loving soul , she would suggest an unfortunate soul be reborn and given a chance to reform , rather than be doomed to purgatory . |
| 22 | This has spawned and sustained a shop stewards ' movement reminiscent of the 1970s . |
| 23 | As he had no children , how could anyone say what kind of a father he would make until given a chance to prove it himself ? |
| 24 | If you 've improvised and made a tie yourself , undo it and retie . |
| 25 | I think most conductors would have stopped and made a song and dance . |
| 26 | The defendant was driving in Jermyn Street at 1.55 a.m. on 11 May 1990 when he was stopped and given a roadside breath test which proved positive . |
| 27 | On the way to the flat , Terry had stopped and bought a bottle of wine . |
| 28 | By unspoken arrangement , those who preferred to travel in silence were left alone when they had received and returned a nod of acknowledgement from their closest neighbours … |
| 29 | After May 1940 each evacuee child was medically examined and assigned a record card , on which were entered ( in coded form ) details of any ailments . |
| 30 | Later , the emirate was formally annexed and proclaimed a province of Iraq . |