Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Part of the remaining walls became incorporated into a police barracks in the nineteenth century .
2 Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered .
3 The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner .
4 Police discovered later that Lorna and Vernage had met at a children 's home years earlier .
5 Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party .
6 On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered .
7 The boy — dubbed Houdini — had escaped from a police cell last week .
8 Or they might hear she had walked into a police station somewhere later in the day .
9 Since our last meeting June Bascombe , Hilda Lodge , Joan Daniels and Janet Rogers had appeared before a Sports Council ‘ panel ’ and answered many questions with reference to our development plan .
10 They 'd all got off the bus together ; this one had gone into a truckers ’ cafe for cigarettes and a carton of coffee .
11 Perhaps he had run into a pensioners ' outing .
12 She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need .
13 Simon Templar had lived in a mews .
14 Yet , within a few years , the whole affair had degenerated into a foodies ' free-for-all .
15 As a result , he accelerated the Centre 's latest move into the SIP building , a former scientific instruments factory on the fringe of industrial Geneva and near to the opera house , which the city had acquired for an arts and exhibition complex .
16 Warne 's wonder ball was all the more special because it was the first he had bowled in an Ashes contest .
17 The re-contras claimed that 66 former contras had been killed during the year in continuing clashes with Sandinista army and police personnel who they wanted replaced by a police force which included ex-contras .
18 This chased filmed from a police video car shows the risks offenders are prepared to take — and the danger to officers who try to catch them .
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