Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 2 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 3 | If their motive actually is er to enjoy seeing a fox torn to pieces er then I suggest to them er that is unbearable cruel there are of course objections to er this motion and to its further extension the banning of fox hunting altogether . |
| 4 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 5 | I ca n't believe knowing er some of the people who do hunt , that their motive is actually that they want to see a fox torn to pieces . |
| 6 | In France Gian Piero Zarri has developed a system known as RESEDA to allow Artificial Intelligence techniques to be applied to historical source material ( concerning the Hundred Years War ) . |
| 7 | An Egyptian scientist has developed a gel based on petroleum waste which he claims can dramatically improve the productivity of sandy soil . |
| 8 | For instance , Evan Zaidel has developed a device known as the Z lens . |
| 9 | For instance , Evan Zaidel has developed a device known as the Z lens . |
| 10 | Psychology makes a great deal of this malleability of behaviour and has developed a technology designed to help people overcome behavioural difficulties and overcome habit problems . |
| 11 | It shows she was unjustly treated and I think that society is wrong to judge ; if she has broken a bond made by God , then he should be the only one to reprimand her for it . |
| 12 | Using simple tones to represent words , Herman has taught a dolphin called Akeakamai ( Lover of Wisdom ) to recognise some 40 or 50 verbs and nouns , which can be combined into more than 1000 different sentences . |
| 13 | The problem was resolved using a trick called isotopic substitution . |
| 14 | At the trial of two eleven year old boys accused of murdering the toddler James Bolger the court has heard a statement given to the police by James 's mother Denise . |
| 15 | The Japanese government has criticized a plan proposed by Indonesia , Singapore and Malaysia to levy a toll on ships passing through the Malacca strait in order to pay for pollution of the seaway [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 16 | The United Mine Workers ' Union ( UMW ) announced on Feb. 20 that 2,000 striking miners in Virginia , West Virginia and Kentucky had voted to accept a settlement negotiated on Jan. 1 between union officials and the Pittston Coal Company [ see p. 37180 ] . |
| 17 | Meyer Raphael Rubinstein , an independent curator , has organised a show called ‘ Hands and Eyes : Modeled Sculpture ’ for Barbara Toll ( 9 May–6 June ) . |
| 18 | Though the London market was slow to recover from the great crash in October 1987 , it has enjoyed a bumper run in 1989 . |
| 19 | Ashridge Management College has designed a programme aimed at equipping Robson Rhodes partners with business counselling skills . |
| 20 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 21 | Montague has built a company valued at close on £500 million , stacked up a personal fortune of more than £18 million , and left some of the toughest deal-makers in the transport business looking on open-mouthed . |
| 22 | Every employee , for example , has attended a course called ‘ How to solve a problem ’ . |
| 23 | Claire Gallois , 55 , a blonde , slim , rather beautiful novelist , has written a tract called The Dangerous Years . |
| 24 | Julian Schnabel , whose work shows in Glimcher 's gallery , has written a screenplay based on the life of the late graffiti artist and Warhol protégé , Jean-Michel Basquiat . |
| 25 | BY way of contrast , Jimmy Nail has written a book based on his TV character SPENDER ( Bantam , £4.99 ) . |
| 26 | Mr Chance has written a book based on the many talks he has given , papers he has written and conferences he has attended a record of his years working with the mentally handicapped . |
| 27 | Until 27 March at Ronald Feldman , a gallery that seems to specialise in the genre , Todd Siler ( who holds a combined doctoral degree in neuroscience and art and who has written a book called Breaking the Mind Barrier ) has devised a tableau he calls ‘ Radical Futures ’ . |
| 28 | She says modern methods do more harm than good , and has written a book designed to teach youngsters the traditional way . |
| 29 | Recent press reports disclose that Wall Street investment banker Dennis Levine , recently convicted and gaoled for insider trading , has written a book entitled Inside Out : An Insider 's Account of Wall Street for which he will receive an undisclosed , but presumably large amount of money . |
| 30 | All the same , he has written a book committed to proving that Europeans ought to unite . |