Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 2 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 3 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 4 | There is coal in Kintyre and large pieces are sometimes brought up by fishing boats working locally , so perhaps the old people who say that coal was mined at Daill and used by a local blacksmith in the First World War are correct , although no trace of workings has been found . |
| 5 | Two needlework cushions with tassels designed by David and made by a friend sit happily with a traditional Amish quilt . |
| 6 | It remained in private hands until the early 1950s , when it was bought by owner-manager James Edgar and converted into a hotel . |
| 7 | Now , after living in a large house at Cape Cod on the east coast of America for 35 years , she has returned to England and settled in a small village in Berkshire . |
| 8 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 9 | The Prague meeting was preceded by sharp disagreements between the Soviet Union and some member states , notably Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , whose representatives spoke openly about the dissolution of COMECON and pressed for a speedier implementation of currency convertibility and the right to trade individually with organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 10 | Rhee never doubted that he was destined to lead Korea and acted with a strange mixture of arrogance , duplicity , cunning and tenacity to establish his power . |
| 11 | The 100 tonnes of relief supplies , valued at around £1 million , had been collected from all over Scotland and stored in a warehouse in the east end of Glasgow for dispatch to hospitals and children 's and old folk 's homes . |
| 12 | They were in Hennessey 's in the Strand and tucked into a corner . |
| 13 | Six members of the PP had been arrested on April 6 on the orders of a magistrate in Valencia and questioned for a week about their involvement in irregular financial dealings to obtain political donations for the party worth 2,000 million pesetas ( about US$19,000,000 ) . |
| 14 | Sow seed in a cold frame in March and April , or from heeled cuttings taken in July and struck in a cold frame . |
| 15 | The family acquired property in Spain and entertained on a surprisingly lavish scale . |
| 16 | The frigate , an SKR 815 under the command of Ukrainian Sergei Nastenko and manned by a crew which had sworn loyalty to Ukraine in January , left Donuzla on the Crimean peninsula without permission on July 21 and hoisted the Ukrainian flag . |
| 17 | The word originated as a marketing term from Germany and referred to a type of board that was easier to control in strong winds than the earlier boards . |
| 18 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 19 | Posing as a Lebanese cocaine buyer , he had flown to Los Angeles with a suitcase full of counterfeit US currency provided by DEA Nicosia and checked into a room booked for him by the DEA at the Sheraton Universal hotel . |
| 20 | When the Soviet Union intervened militarily in Afghanistan the British Foreign Secretary , Lord Carrington , rapidly proposed a plan for Afghanistan which was approved by the Council of Ministers of the EEC and adopted as a joint EEC declaration on 15 January 1980 . |
| 21 | For protein extraction , cells were washed five times with ice-cold PBS and collected into a buffer containing 10mM Tris-Cl pH8.0 , 10mM KCl , 1.5mM MgCl 2 , and the protease inhibitors antipain ( 50μgml r-1 ) , aprotinin ( 10μgml r-1 ) , benzamidine ( 310μgml r-1 ) , leupeptin ( 5μgml r-1 ) , pepstatin A ( 5μgml r-1 ) and phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride ( 175μgml r-1 ) . |
| 22 | HT-29 cells were washed with PBS and harvested by a 10 minute incubation with 0.05% trypsin/0.02% EDTA 24 hours after reaching confluency . |
| 23 | He led a field of seven candidates in an inconclusive first round , and in the second round run-off he defeated Oleg Lobov , currently the second secretary of the Armenian CP and regarded as a pro-Gorbachev reformer . |
| 24 | Frankie 's palms were already sticky with perspiration when he crossed the road , ran down West Brook Place and squeezed through a gap in the high brick wall at its lower end . |
| 25 | Yet when it was proposed to erect a massive ‘ brick man ’ , designed by sculptor Anthony Gormley and funded by a band of enthusiasts , on a derelict site close to the main railway line into Leeds , the local authority took fright and vetoed the idea . |
| 26 | From Tabard Road a woman wheeling a pram had emerged in Kingsmarkham High Street And stopped outside a plate-glass display window of the Southern Electricity Board . |
| 27 | It was entered by a narrow door in Meard Street and reached by a tiny , rickety lift situated at the far end of a gloomy passage . |
| 28 | At West Croydon , the wires crossed over the main road into Station Road and terminated in a loop at a triangular widening at the entry to St. Michael 's Road , opposite the old station building . |
| 29 | On 11th May the Bill was given a Second Reading and referred to a Select Committee , which met on 10th July with Molesworth as Chairman . |
| 30 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |