Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne joined the class , became ‘ hooked ’ and herself eventually became a Medau teachers . |
| 2 | He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner . |
| 3 | It is perhaps significant that whereas Haycocks I eventually produced a DES Circular , this one was issued only as an ACSTT Report , endorsed by the Advisory Committee as a whole and over the signature of the Chairman of the Sub-Committee . |
| 4 | A MAN who successfully traced a forces pal through the columns of The Northern Echo said yesterday it had brought bad news . |
| 5 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 6 | Further peace talks brokered by Oakley led to the announcement on Dec. 27 of a reconciliation agreement between Aydid and Mahdi Mohammed , who together led a peace march on Dec. 28 across the so-called " green line " which had divided Mogadishu between their forces . |
| 7 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 8 | ‘ After her parents died about a year apart she suddenly got a survival instinct which knew no boundaries at all because she had no longer had a family , ’ said Amanda . |
| 9 | You suddenly got a tape machine stuck on |
| 10 | This one stayed back , unzipped her anorak and from somewhere inside produced a silver metal can . |
| 11 | The opposition thoughtfully provided a batting line-up of stroke-playing dashers , and bowlers that could easily have been selected at random from a passing Delhi omnibus . |
| 12 | I unwisely approached a bus queue at one stage and was nearly mobbed . |
| 13 | In open-air ceremonies , they apparently used a triton shell to amplify and distort their voices . |
| 14 | Run-DMC sensibly provided a side order of heavy metal with their rantings and secured crossover success , while it 's noticeable that LL Cool J has resorted to introducing unabashed Radio 2-style ballads into his repertoire . |
| 15 | In 1981 the government declared a 10% increase in those factories where it was economically viable , but we only received a 5% rise and our factory was very well off in economic terms . |
| 16 | A Neopolitan nobleman , Federico Grisone , studied Xenophon 's books concerning horses ; and as a result of this he not only opened a riding academy where young noblemen , including the sons of many European kings and princes , were tutored in the arts of handling horses and courtly behaviour ; but he also published , in 1550 , his book Ordini di Cavalcare , of which much had been copied from Xenophon 's works . |
| 17 | The year 's calendar will be : 12 January to 20 February , ‘ The Lake Isle of Innisfree ’ , a body of work produced by William Tillyer , Maggi Hambling , Maurice Cockrell and Wendy Connelly who all spent a week painting in County Sligo ; 23 February to 1 April , ‘ Ivon Hitchens centenary exhibition ’ , commemorating the centenary year of the artist 's birth ; April 5 to 1 May , ‘ Wendy Connelly ’ , the artist 's first one-person show since graduating from St Martin 's in 1991 ; 5 May to 5 June , ‘ William Tillyer ’ , oils and watercolours from the Yorkshire-based artist ; 8 June to 4 September ‘ British Landscape painting 1750–1993 ’ , from Richard Wilson and Gainsborough to Constable , Palmer , Spencer and Lanyon ; 7 September to 2 October , ‘ John Virtue ’ , in collaboration with the Lisson Gallery ; 5 October to 6 November , ‘ Ben Nicholson centenary exhibition ’ , timed to coincide with the Tate exhibition ; 9 November to 4 December ‘ Graham Sutherland ’ , the gallery 's first showing of work by the artist ; 7 December to 30 January , ‘ Maurice Cockrill ’ . |
| 18 | Police are hunting a man who brutally raped a woman student in a city centre toilet . |
| 19 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 20 | ( To Jane 's son , Jack , who found the manor cold after his London flat , so wore a dressing gown all the time ) . |
| 21 | ‘ The advertisements and Briggs spoke of a Jane Eyre , but I only knew a Jane Elliott , ’ said St John . |
| 22 | Aileen had read about multi-currency mortgages in the newspapers and so gave a specialist broker a call to find out more . |
| 23 | Miles obviously had a command override . |
| 24 | ‘ We only had a matchbox size kitchen from which we had to fees the likes of Spike Milligan , Harold Wilson and Ken Dodd . |
| 25 | In the mid-term , fully 70 per cent of Mirror readers not only had a party preference but regarded themselves as party ‘ supporters ’ . |
| 26 | That 's the number of lucky motorists the Wolfsburg manufacturer has equipped with the Golf G60 Limited , a car that was the subject of over 1000 enquiries when it was announced to dealers in Germany last year but only had a production run of 70 . |
| 27 | So I more or less had a crew cut . |
| 28 | Even so esteemed a Church Father as Clement of Alexandria was actually , in many respects , closer to original Nazarean doctrine than he was to the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome . |
| 29 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |
| 30 | There was a tin hut at the end of it and inside sat a ticket collector asleep over the counter . |