Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French struggled for nearly sixty minutes against a generous but raw Romania , ran riot against a Fijian side well below par and short of the menacing inspiration that made them a fearsome proposal in 1987 , while the game against Canada exposed the shortcomings that England later exploited with relish . |
| 2 | But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago . |
| 3 | Made them a sure part of your plan |
| 4 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 5 | The offer made them a special case but by the same token was condemned by other groups such as the ancillary workers , who protested that they were offered only 4 per cent . |
| 6 | Their ‘ Vicinity to the Dockyards ’ made them a vital source of timber for the Royal Navy ; therefore it was ‘ a National Object to keep and to improve ’ them . |
| 7 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 8 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 9 | Then the King asked me a large number of questions . |
| 10 | Conchis led me a little way to a deep fissure between two boulders , and there suspended a piece of white cloth on the end of a line . |
| 11 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 12 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 13 | ‘ Someone recently got me a small Vox practice amp which is okay , but when I 'm recording at home I go straight through a JHS Rock Box . |
| 14 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 15 | GENEVIEVE CAUDEN ( STUDENT ) : A bullet just grazed me a little bit . |
| 16 | She also made me a small bed , which was placed on a shelf too high for rats to reach . |
| 17 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 19 | Anyway , that made me a scarlet woman . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 21 | The members of the household , once they realised that their watches and jewellery were safe , ‘ asked them a thousand questions ’ about America , and , as the children 's governess later wrote ‘ they behaved with great civility ’ . |
| 22 | He asked them a few times . |
| 23 | The taxi driver leaned through his window at one point and passed me a small scrap of paper . |
| 24 | ‘ We got ourselves a new ball park , ’ said the man from Detroit . |
| 25 | Promised me a free ticket for the opening . |
| 26 | Then Sir Alfred pulled in in his Bentley and promised me a free hand to design a car that worked . |
| 27 | Why , he even once built me a tiny crystal set in an empty match box saying , ‘ Here , Kit . |
| 28 | He drew me a little plan of how to get to W H Smiths and that . |
| 29 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 30 | He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike . |