Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mosbacher , 64 , like Bush a native easterner who moved to Texas and made a personal fortune in oil and gas , had served as Bush 's national finance chairman in 1988 and was once again expected to concentrate on financing the campaign . |
| 2 | Stukeley also began enthusiastically landscaping the garden of his house in Barn Hill and devised a formal garden on a concentric circular layout which could have been based on his Stonehenge plan ( see drawing ) . |
| 3 | Then , as the congregation grew , she bought land off Edge Hill and had a fine new church built in 1887 . |
| 4 | Kelly sat in the jockeys ' stand at Sandown and gave a quiet laugh . |
| 5 | Ally Donaldson kicked two penalty goals for Currie and converted a late try by Dean Mack . |
| 6 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 7 | Convinced that the treaty would undercut German sovereignty by taking away powers from the German parliament , he left Brussels and filed a sweeping complaint claiming that Maastricht damages constitutional guarantees of individual rights and democratic procedure . |
| 8 | A similar organisation of the Habsburg government , the Geheime Kabinets-Kanzlei , operated not merely in Vienna but in Brussels , Liége , Frankfurt and Regensburg and enjoyed a high reputation for its technical skill . |
| 9 | There was still an amiable air to the action but Cantona showed his commitment when he crashed into substitute Abel and earned a yellow card . |
| 10 | Government minister Robert Freeman now had a meeting with Roberts and promised a new inquiry . |
| 11 | I had a clerk in St Paul 's write it out , then stood by Aldgate and bribed a royal messenger , carrying the white wand and wearing the royal gold-and-blue surcoat , who was travelling to King 's Lynn , to leave the message with Master Daunbey . |
| 12 | Eventually , he settled in East Dulwich and opened a small grocer 's shop . |
| 13 | The UK company was founded in 1932 at Warwick and had a dual function for LDP . |
| 14 | Lutyens was brought up at Thursley in Surrey and developed a great love for that county 's local styles and materials , although he also built in the grandest of manners . |
| 15 | Proceedings were commenced against Volkswagen of America ( VWoA ) , a New Jersey corporation which did business in Illinois and had a registered address for service there . |
| 16 | The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment . |
| 17 | Sik and Smith , of occupational psychologists Saville and Holdsworth , questioned players from three clubs , Sheffield United , Glasgow Celtic and Crystal Palace and found a complete spectrum of personalities from Lineker-level self-control to Gazza-grade tears and tomfoolery . |
| 18 | Having badly underestimated his victim 's popularity , he had fled with his family to Makassar and boarded a large inter-island ship for Java . |
| 19 | She liked St Etheldreda , who was a Virgin Queen , although she was twice married — she became Abbess of Ely and founded a great House , and was buried in the odour of sanctity — ’ |
| 20 | You left the car at Dortmund and caught an early morning train for Ostend — you said . |
| 21 | It did not light any new fires for Nicholson and died a quiet death . |
| 22 | A major amendment was accepted by the government even at the report stage in the House of Lords ' consideration of the Bill : the Isle of Wight was separated from Hampshire and retained a separate county council ( Wood 1976:151 ) . |
| 23 | Anyhow — it was Lyles at play or post work recreation when they gathered two teams together on 3rd May and had a good game of football at the Cumbernauld Sports Centre . |
| 24 | The royal cavalcade entered London in early May and received a tumultuous welcome from its citizens . |
| 25 | Turning to face front , she suddenly saw Ellie and gave a little screech of alarm . |
| 26 | Ultimately Captain Peter Warr was sent out from England and remained a chief parachute instructor . |
| 27 | In 1888 he joined a Wild West circus and toured the United States for about two years , then sailed to England and established a music-hall act as a sharpshooter . |
| 28 | SHANE McINTOSH , brother of Dale , the Scotland ‘ B ’ no.8 , has joined West of Scotland and staked a regular first-team place at centre . |
| 29 | We went to the remotest part of Scotland and had a gorgeous peaceful time . |
| 30 | In Britain , Hewett C. Watson ( 1804–81 ) worked on the variation of the flora with altitude in the Highlands of Scotland and pioneered a national census of plants , which allowed the country to be divided into a number of botanical provinces . |