Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shootings took place less than 24 hours after the IRA tried to kill a former UDR man in a Belfast nightspot . |
| 2 | The latest shootings took place less than 24 hours after the IRA tried to kill a former UDR man in a central Belfast nightspot . |
| 3 | Mr Baker also proposed establishing a permanent Nato arms control verification staff to monitor compliance with arms reduction and confidence building measures . |
| 4 | The trio , who were linked on security force computers to 32 murders , were killed as they apparently tried to murder a retired UDR man on a remote Co Tyrone road . |
| 5 | May 5 : Yeltsin and Kryuchkov agreed to create a separate RFSFR section of the KGB [ see p. 38206 ] . |
| 6 | A graduate of Georgetown University , he 'd won a coveted Rhodes Scholarship to study for a BPhil in Politics at University College . |
| 7 | Adam grabbed Billie and hid her behind the Audi , glad that he 'd chosen a four-wheel-drive Quattro . |
| 8 | The exoskeleton opened evicting a moaning Ed McEd , his face a ghastly white . |
| 9 | As we have seen earlier in this publication , during the 1980s , under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher , we began to shape a new Britain . |
| 10 | Following Fidel Castro 's seizure of power , Kennedy failed to keep a gung-ho CIA in check , which proceeded with its ill-conceived invasion plans of Cuba . |
| 11 | Donaldson said , and started to lead a confused Mrs Balanchine towards the door . |
| 12 | Most of the early activity was confined to urban areas , but in 1927 the Carnegie Trust offered to finance a National WEA scheme to promote new developments through rural adult education and mid-Devon , the North Riding and Bedfordshire were selected . |
| 13 | In the evening , bone-tired , she left the kitchen and went to put a reluctant Anna to bed . |
| 14 | The Geneva Conference had been attended by many SE Asia countries who wished to see a split Vietnam . |
| 15 | At least by the time he received a freak , soccer-kickabout leg injury last month that forced him to miss the Test against South Africa , he had enjoyed a double-try England debut against Canada . |
| 16 | Quinn was touched to note he had picked a Spanish Rioja , not from Andalusia , but the nearest he could get . |
| 17 | Speaking at a press conference in the UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 30 , 1989 , the Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati , said that Iran had accepted a four-point UN proposal including simultaneous troop withdrawal and prisoner exchange , but that Iraq had rejected the idea . |
| 18 | There he had met a distraught Isobel and her broken-hearted schoolgirl sister , Dorothy . |
| 19 | He and the WPC had seen a red Ford Orion and followed it . |
| 20 | He had told a worried Miss Mates that his patient had just died having her twelfth child . |
| 21 | A director from each of the new companies would acquire shares and sit on the SUPPLYKITS board : as Miranda owned the entire company , these inducement shares would reduce her holding , but Adam had convinced a reluctant Miranda that by relinquishing fifteen per cent of her shares , she was exchanging a hundred per cent of a small orange for eighty-five per cent of a crateful . |
| 22 | I had managed it and had had a golden Stuttgart . |
| 23 | They had had a big Sunday lunch , with Mum and Dad being there . |
| 24 | It had become a real Waterloo : Alexandre collapsed into a Builders Arms ! |
| 25 | They had reached a flame-red Alfa Romeo convertible , parked in the leafy shade of a fig tree . |
| 26 | The Czech , who had replaced a concussed Tony Roberts after 17 minutes , hesitated over a Neal Ardley cross and was left stranded as Earle looped a header over him and into an empty net . |
| 27 | The runaway had abandoned a stolen Vauxhall Nova . |
| 28 | The company had hired a standard Sony digital tape recorder which was hooked to Johnson 's own analogue-to-digital conversion system . |
| 29 | Then he , Joe Hughes and a man called ‘ Peter ’ had driven a white Vauxhall estate to Inverness . |
| 30 | We were on Egleton Reserve , the lagoon area of the Rutland Water Nature Reserve , and we had spent a blustery March morning wielding bill hooks to create 3-foot long sticks from coppiced pussy willow branches . |