Example sentences of "[verb] by a [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dark taproom was dominated by a morose Cranston , who sat slumped on a bench with his back against the wall . |
| 2 | We drove off to another barracks in Lille where we were taken individually into an office occupied by a portly Major ; he handed each of us a pile of papers and we were told to sign each one at the bottom . |
| 3 | A piece of land at Yardley ( Worcs. ) was owned by a certain John Arden of Castle Bromwich ; absentee proprietors at Windrush included citizens of Bristol and Gloucester . |
| 4 | In order to avoid inflicting worry and pain on the long suffering team manager Willie Ormond , a gang of players bypassed the hotel and headed for the sanctuary of a nearby bar which was owned by a generous Scotland fan called Ross Bowie . |
| 5 | After the preliminary rounds , the competition only starts in earnest today , though the Royal Air Force may find themselves outclassed by a strong Somerset team . |
| 6 | But the brick dropped by a local Sunday newspaper last weekend is worthy of mention . |
| 7 | The game had already been enlivened by a sumptuous Derrick Lee break-off scrum ball ( and a neat assist by Andrew Garry ) , therefore it was little co-incidence that the stand-off , who had enjoyed an adventurous afternoon , was instrumental in the first try . |
| 8 | His second sentence , however , rekindled the dream , for it transpires that the ironwork was designed by a certain Mr Bligh- Bone , who amongst other achievements is credited with the rediscovery of the abbey at Glastonbury . |
| 9 | These were followed or interspersed by a windswept Starmer-Smith standing on the touchline , microphone in hand , sporting a selection from his extensive wardrobe of scarves and neckties , and promising delights which were sure to come next week but which had unaccountably failed to materialise this week . |
| 10 | Our mark stands by a white BMW . |
| 11 | The defence that an " offer of amends " had been made failed on two counts : it had not been made " as soon as practicable " ( seven weeks had elapsed since publication ) and " reasonable care " had not been exercised , because a check with current stage directories would have revealed that the name chosen for the fictitious actress was the same as that used by a leading West End lady . |
| 12 | Sainz could have done with him yesterday , when his lead was slashed by a charging Pentti Airikkala . |
| 13 | To see this platform threatened by a mere Smiths ' power game , hardly proved good PR for the band and a degree of bad feeling began to boil away in their home city . |
| 14 | Patrick Forbes gets right to the heart of the matter when , in his scholarly work Champagne ( 1967 ) , he refers to a treatise , Traité de la culture des vignes de Champagne , written by a certain Frère Pierre , a member of the community at the abbey of Hautvillers during and after the time of his mentor Dom Pérignon . |
| 15 | Solid , unsensational book written by a black New York sociologist who spent several years with Hispanic and black teenage cocaine dealers . |
| 16 | It is significant that one of the first major published attacks on Indirect Rule was written by a Northern Nigeria DO , Walter Crocker , whose animus against the system clearly arose not from disagreement with its basic principles but from the fact that DOs were allowed so little responsibility within it . |
| 17 | The Arab governments and the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) rejected the idea of a regional conference and supported instead a UN-supervised international conference on the Middle East , attended by a full PLO delegation . |
| 18 | A motion to withdraw support from the Coalition was moved by a senior Essex backbencher . |
| 19 | When built by a large NHBC builder , on a formal contract , £40–£50 per sq ft . |
| 20 | BRITAIN 'S Presidency of the European Community during 1992 was commemorated by a specially-designed Wedgwood plate . |
| 21 | A LUCKY corgi 's remarkable good fortune continues this week just a month after it was saved by a kindly Darlington couple . |
| 22 | The French enthusiasm was counteracted by a reluctant West Germany , worried that the policy would adversely affect its own agriculture ; and the governing Christian Democrats did not in 1965 wish to risk alienating one of its most important electoral clienteles , the farmers , just before the impending general election later in the year . |
| 23 | THE well-publicised exploits of Duncan Shearer , Eoin Jess , Mixu Paatelainen , Scott Booth and others in compiling a total of 71 Premier Division goals for Aberdeen to date this season have tended to mask the contribution made by a miserly Pittodrie defence . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ While recognising that the allegations are made by a self-confessed IRA terrorist , they are nonetheless of such a serious nature that they demand full investigation . ’ |
| 25 | THE Dutch government called in the papal envoy in the Hague yesterday to protest at remarks made by a senior Vatican official comparing a new Dutch euthanasia law to mass killings by Nazi Germany . |
| 26 | The contras ' southern front , a struggling enterprise sheltered by a reluctant Costa Rica , was even more ramshackle . |
| 27 | Our first incinerator which gives us control of our own medical waste disposal has been commissioned and is now operated by a separate Rentokil company Medical Services Incineration Ltd . |
| 28 | This was met by a diving A. Mayson who showed agility beyond his height-weight ratio to push the ball in for number two . |
| 29 | IMPACT : An arrow shows where the stricken Jumbo plunged on to flats in the complex visited by a shocked Queen Beatrix ( inset ) yesterday |
| 30 | As illus.1 shows , the role of Hymen , the god of marriage , was sung by a certain Monsieur Blondel . |