Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have grown a beautiful rose , learnt to type or finished the Times crossword , you have succeeded in something which mattered to you . |
| 2 | Nor did the Teleuts hand over hostages to the Russians , despite pressure being placed on them to do so . |
| 3 | Visitors often pop into reception , one caller recently brought in a vole wrapped up in paper and asked the girls advice as to what to do with it . |
| 4 | He also called unsuccessfully for concerted action by the US , USSR , France , and Great Britain , and announced an arms embargo to all belligerents . |
| 5 | To understand the qualitative features of the binding of GH5 to DNA , we have taken the structure of the CAP/DNA complex , and made a least-squares superposition of GH5 onto CAP on the basis of the sequence alignment in Fig. 4 . |
| 6 | She laughed more and Tucker was smiling , intoxicated by the sound escaping from her , which shook the sofa , reverberated in the rafters and made the parrots screech . |
| 7 | The police claimed that they had been forced to act to disperse the crowds when troublemakers attacked police stations , but protesters disputed this account and described the police action as a massacre . |
| 8 | The European Parliament called for an independent inquiry and proposed an arms embargo on Indonesia . |
| 9 | Is he aware that there has been at least one case in which , having seen a name badge , a claimant looked in the phone book and traced the Benefits Agency employee to his home . |
| 10 | 65th minute : Ian Wright emerged from an innocuous challenge with Howells and clouted the Spurs man . |
| 11 | It came to the rescue of Rolls-Royce and of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and negotiated an incomes policy with the unions . |
| 12 | She led him upstairs to a homely-looking sitting-room , and opened the drinks cupboard . |
| 13 | and he always provided a very smart car , and the first policeman to drive the police car was his own chauffeur , who left him and joined the police force . |
| 14 | Coun Long said she shared Coun Stenson 's concern for children and emphasised the Arts Centre brochure of events said the exhibition was unsuitable for youngsters . |
| 15 | They were informal and informative and included a women firefighter giving a talk on her personal experience . ’ |
| 16 | Jim Parkinson did a logo for a magazine called Ocean , where he took Times Bold , widened it slightly and then thinned the serifs and thinned the horizontals way down , and it was wonderful . |
| 17 | So he just smiled as enigmatically as he knew how , and pocketed the drinks key . |
| 18 | With a savage cry he drove into her one last time and felt the shockwaves pulse through him , draining all sensation and leaving a blessed numbness in which there was no more pain … |
| 19 | He referred to a mysterious Mr Noble as the man who had recruited Badenoch and brought the drugs north for distribution . |
| 20 | Lewis asked himself this question as he went down in the lift and crossed the arrivals hall of Terminal Two to await the exodus from Customs . |
| 21 | The apples were the fruits of perpetual youth and gave the gods immortality . |
| 22 | Anne Ridler noticed how Eliot " affected a certain detachment from the proceedings , and did The Times crossword during the meetings , but his business judgments were as shrewd as anyone 's … " |
| 23 | Does not that contrast with the Conservative policy of reducing the betting levy by 2.5 per cent. , which has given £100 million to sport and increased the Sports Council grant to £50 million — |
| 24 | I knew nothing about fish , but as time went by , I went mad and bought a 24″ glass tank with a crude external filter . |
| 25 | Southwestern Bell Corp , St Louis , got a clean bill of health from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed its Southwestern Bell Telephone Co 's A-plus senior unsecured debt and A-1 commercial paper and said the ratings outlook is stable . |
| 26 | José Miguel Mérida Escobar led the investigation into the stabbing death , in September 1990 , of anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang and wrote the police report which named an officer of the intelligence branch of the army as one of those responsible for the killing . |
| 27 | The John family were tenants for two generations around the turn of this century and ran a hauliers business from the farm , where they stabled thirty or more shire horses . |
| 28 | He turned and left the Operations Room . |
| 29 | This morning , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said that he wanted to see more policemen on the beat , yet when he was a member of the last Labour Cabinet he cut the number of policemen and left the police force under strength . |
| 30 | We approached Ford , Honda and BMW dealers in Slovakia , and explained the oil-plus-parts concept to them . ’ |