Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing waiting in the yard , while another pony was being saddled , Gabriel asked to see the monastery chapel . |
| 2 | Degussa has announced the development of a new hydrophobic molecular sieve , Wessalith DAY , from a Y zeolite dealuminated using a Degussa procedure . |
| 3 | However , she also agreed to attend a conjoint session with her parents the next week . |
| 4 | It came after Benn failed to attend a press conference at London 's Bloomsbury Crest Hotel to publicise his WBC super-middlewight title defence against Nicky Piper at Alexandra Palace on Saturday . |
| 5 | Despite gaining a second corner during the half , Milton failed to penetrate the home defence and at half time neither side had scored . |
| 6 | Examples of works which fall into this category are : documents produced using a word processing system ; CAD ( computer aided designs ) such as plans for a house or a new car body panel ; music written using a program designed to assist with the composition of the music ( as opposed to a program designed to write music ) ; and an accounts report produced using a spreadsheet program . |
| 7 | Examples of works which fall into this category are : documents produced using a word processing system ; CAD ( computer aided designs ) such as plans for a house or a new car body panel ; music written using a program designed to assist with the composition of the music ( as opposed to a program designed to write music ) ; and an accounts report produced using a spreadsheet program . |
| 8 | You can use Edit — the editor supplied with DOS 5 — to search through data produced using the TREE command |
| 9 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
| 10 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 11 | Transcript abundance appeared to be similar in both life cycle stages ( RNA loading checked using the actin gene ( 31 ) as a control probe ( Fig. 4B ) ) . |
| 12 | AN X-ray doctor failed to spot a three-inch piece of glass lodged in a patient 's chest . |
| 13 | Automatic cameras snapped a picture of Nichola Grabauskas 's Metro number plate and the back of the breakdown truck but failed to spot the tow rope . |
| 14 | BANK staff failed to spot the age difference when 26-year-old Kenneth Wilby posed as his father . |
| 15 | ‘ . In another occasion of indecent assault whereby a drunken soccer fan ‘ put his hand up the British Airway girl 's skirt after she tried to subdue him and a group of pals who were on the duty-frees ’ ( Star ) — both the Star and the Sun avoided naming the air hostess . |
| 16 | I expected to see the laurel leaf in the back you know |
| 17 | The data were off loaded to a computer ( Amstrad PC1640 , IBM-compatible ) and processed using the Esophagram software ( Gastrosoft Ltd , USA ) . |
| 18 | Athelstan asked to borrow a pewter spoon and ate slowly . |
| 19 | The Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 , which sought to implement the Law Commission proposals , did not , therefore , eliminate the distinctions between conditions and warranties and innominate terms . |
| 20 | In early September north European government officials meeting in Ronneby , Sweden , agreed to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Baltic and to halve the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 . |
| 21 | At the turn of the century the town expanded to accommodate the sugar cane workers , and a railway line led to the Haleiwa Hotel . |
| 22 | In July , 1992 , the bone marrow transplant unit at Westminster Children 's Hospital , London , agreed to perform a bone marrow transplant on Rhys Daniels ( now aged 2½ ) , who like his 5-year-old sister has Batten 's disease , provided the ethical committee approved and a suitable donor could be found . |
| 23 | Fig. 1 ( c ) Short wooden pegs are inserted 90–120 cm ( 3–4 ft ) apart around the pool and the tops levelled using a spirit level . |
| 24 | The committee agreed to inform the county council it had no objections to the proposal as long as the weighbridge was only used by landfill traffic and the pit only operated in the hours specified in the application . |
| 25 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 26 | The number of exceedances of the eight-hour air quality standard decreased by over 80 per cent during this same period but , even so , 41 areas failed to meet the air quality standard in 1988–9 . |
| 27 | She agreed to try a behaviour chart and identified that each of them should sit in their own chairs , eat their own food quietly , and not interfere with each other . |
| 28 | Waggler and caster fished alongside the weed bed tempted tench skimmers and roach , but as Darlington rods took the next three places , Bob 's best efforts failed to secure the team victory . |
| 29 | Mr Lamont had cut car tax from 10 per cent to five per cent in March this year but his action failed to pull the car industry out of a three-year nose dive . |
| 30 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |