Example sentences of "[verb] [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 | Glasgow Polytechnic has set up a graduates association and would like to her from any graduates or diplomates . |
| 4 | In a similar move , Sybase has set up a tools technology group and a database unit . |
| 5 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Wakefield Council had set up an Adaptations and Disability Unit , bringing together staff from social services , environmental health and housing departments . |
| 8 | ‘ By the time I was just 22 , I had run up a clothes debt of nearly £4,000 ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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% . |