Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a creature known in the Reconciled Dominions as a voider , one of a brutal species that haunted the wastes north of the Lenten Way . |
| 2 | Taking his hint , Fei Yen straightened the p'i p'a in her lap and , after a moment 's concentration , began to play . |
| 3 | SOUL singer Eddie Kendricks , who led The Temptations group to a string of hits in the 1960s , has died of lung cancer in Alabama . |
| 4 | It was six minutes before Didcot attacked the visitors goal as Mark O'Hara shot into a crowded goalmouth . |
| 5 | From Wilson 's Grammar School in Camberwell he won a scholarship to St Dunstan 's College , and from there in 1921 he entered the honours school of chemistry at University College London . |
| 6 | The police claimed that they had been forced to act to disperse the crowds when troublemakers attacked police stations , but protesters disputed this account and described the police action as a massacre . |
| 7 | Mr Hammond described the yards area as the heart of the oldest part of Darlington . |
| 8 | The action followed widespread rumours in late January of a planned coup attempt by StB members with the help of hardline elements in the Army ; the authorities on Jan. 26 reinforced the police force with Interior Ministry troops , while denying the coup rumours . |
| 9 | He was educated in Greenock and entered Glasgow University in 1806 to study medicine and , though not on the official roll of graduates , used the initials MD for the remainder of his life . |
| 10 | One of the recent visitors to Giverny was Roy Lichtenstein , who in 1969 had used Monet 's Rouen and Haystack series as the basis for a series of lithographs. then in 1991 he used the water-lilies theme of the Nymphéas for a series of works employing a new technique , the decorative machine turnings made by abrading metal in shining whirls , which , while looking like water have the reflectiveness of stainless steel . |
| 11 | England boss Graham Taylor yesterday excluded the Rangers midfielder from his squad for the vital World Cup qualifying match against Turkey in Izmir on 31 March . |
| 12 | A MAN who successfully traced a forces pal through the columns of The Northern Echo said yesterday it had brought bad news . |
| 13 | Among dozens of companies reporting yesterday was speciality chemicals group Laporte which reported a profits slide of ten per cent and saw its shares slip . |
| 14 | One of them grabbed the youth by the neck as he approached a police van in Tarling Street , Stepney , east London , telling officers he believed the youth had been involved in an attack on an elderly woman . |
| 15 | We used a wages robbery for a couple of them some time later . |
| 16 | The European Parliament called for an independent inquiry and proposed an arms embargo on Indonesia . |
| 17 | LORI MCNEIL added the DFS Classic to her list of titles when she beat friend and fellow American Zina Garrison 6–4 2–6 6–3 in a patchy final at Edgbaston yesterday . |
| 18 | Her husband only received the letters patent from the King to act as ferryman just before his death . ’ |
| 19 | It also received the name-plates Star of the East during its repaint. 47401 also carried North Eastern plates between December 1981 and May 1988 when it was a regular performer on Trans-Pennine duties between Newcastle and Liverpool being shedded at Gateshead . |
| 20 | Convincingly winning the dozen strong mixed team also secured the lions share of individual medals . |
| 21 | Austin Currie condemned the police action in blocking their route , and said that NICRA would be organising more parades , which would not stop at Thomas Street : ‘ O'Neill and those Orange bigots behind him [ will ] realise once and for all that we are on our way forward . |
| 22 | Last month it lifted the pharmaceuticals component of its turnover above 60 p.c. with the purchase of Peter Hand from Hillsdown for £7½m . |
| 23 | The people in the photographs in the brochure — a man , his wife , his two children and his stupid , stupid luggage , his folding chairs , his folding table , his hamper , his sensible suitcase packed for his sensible holiday — were exactly how Henry imagined the advertisers thought of him . |
| 24 | The document , dated 1549 , comprised the letters patent of privileges granted by ‘ Edwarde the Sixt ’ to his Officers of Arms . |
| 25 | Danny graced the Spurs team of course , er completed the double with them , when he was captain , and I know a lot of Spurs supporters will remember those days . |
| 26 | They later transferred the letters patent to Casey during some negotiations which eventually came to nothing . |
| 27 | In Simcock v Rhodes ( 1978 ) 66 Cr App R 192 the court held that an offence was committed where a group of 15 youths told a police sergeant to ‘ fuck off ’ . |
| 28 | While we were in Christchurch there was a ‘ Festival of Romance ’ , in which we went to several concerts , exhibitions and lectures , and on the final night the orchestra played a fireworks concert beside the lake in Hagley Park . |
| 29 | It would also be discrimination contrary to the Act if an LEA adopted an admissions policy of dispersing ethnic minority children . |
| 30 | It came to the rescue of Rolls-Royce and of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and negotiated an incomes policy with the unions . |