Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) . |
| 2 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 3 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 4 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 5 | Interestingly , Kölbel et al , who used a higher initial dose of 600 mg/kg ethanol , found only a 55% increase in acid secretion . |
| 6 | Dungannon nearly increased their lead when Jonathon Hastings charged down a Highfield kick in midfield . |
| 7 | Hartlepool chairman Garry Gibson said : ‘ I 'm glad he cost only a train fare and not a plane fare . |
| 8 | Fawehinmi , charged over a magazine article in which he accused Babangida of planning to cling to power , had already been sentenced on Jan. 5 to 12 months imprisonment for contempt of court , but had been released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 9 | But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) . |
| 10 | A superbly worked goal by Wantage when John Cully headed home a pin point cross by Stewart Bradbury with five minutes remaining , looked to have won this match for three vitally needed points in the Hellenic League premier division . |
| 11 | TWO brothers were killed when their car crashed off a Perthshire road yesterday . |
| 12 | He let off a warning shot . |
| 13 | Under US pressure , Kaifu announced in September a US$4,000 million contribution to the international effort against Iraq , and drew up a Peace Co-operation Bill to authorize the dispatch of 2,000 non-combatants from Japan 's Self Defence Forces to assist the allied forces being deployed against Iraq . |
| 14 | Manager : We sat with the clinicians and said , look we 've got to identify the capital to do this properly and we drew up a clinic scheme and then we had to compromise on what they wanted and John at one stage said , " I 'm sorry , that is what you 're getting . |
| 15 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
| 16 | Buick also sorted out its muddled product line and drew up a marketing plan that helped it sidestep the most intensely competitive part of the American market . |
| 17 | They drew up a UN resolution agreeing to use force if needed . |
| 18 | In January 1883 Henry Thring , the Attorney-General , drew up a draft bill which incorporated the main recommendations of the Lords ' Committee . |
| 19 | At the end of last year , and with the help of its publishers ' advisory committee , the Council 's Libraries , Books and Information Division drew up a book promotion policy . |
| 20 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |
| 21 | After two successful defences at welterweight , Murray moved up a weight division to Super Welterweight and took the vacant title in Switzerland by knocking out another American Eric Melton in just three rounds . |
| 22 | After two successful defences at welterweight , Murray moved up a weight division to Super Welterweight and took the vacant title in Switzerland by knocking out another American Eric Melton in just three rounds . |
| 23 | Lyte was enormously popular during his 25 years of ministry there and built up a Sunday School of over 700 children . |
| 24 | During the Thatcher years , James Hanson built up a £10bn business empire through a series of audacious takeovers and acquired a peerage in the process . |
| 25 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 26 | It appeared that Tyminski had left Poland penniless in 1969 , travelling first to Sweden and then to Canada , where he built up a business empire centred on a computer automation firm . |
| 27 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 28 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 29 | The Midland built up a cash reserve of £2bn to meet any run on the bank once the loss was revealed , but the reserve was not needed . |
| 30 | Maximilian drew out a plastic notebook from underwater with his left hand and started to make a note in it with his right , using a gadget pencil with his name on it in gold . |