Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun prp] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pointed out that Lome III had not stimulated trade between the EC and the ACP countries ( since 1985 trade in both directions had actually fallen in both absolute and relative terms ) , or lessened the ACP countries ' economic dependence on the production of primary commodities , or encouraged industrialization . |
| 2 | David Kossoff , who played the Baker brothers ' father , still remembers the impression that Crawford left on him . |
| 3 | Health Secretary William Waldegrave told an NHS managers ' conference in London that in January long term waiting lists had been cut by thirty percent . |
| 4 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 5 | A few years later , when Masai rights of occupancy in the Serengeti were at issue , some influential Masai resident in the national park joined the Meru Citizens ' Union . |
| 6 | In 1924 he joined the Calico Printers ' Association as a research chemist , at a time when the search was on in many laboratories for new synthetic fibres . |
| 7 | The Jockey Club 's Disciplinary Committee upheld the York stewards ' judgement that Eddery had been guilty of interfering with Green 's Bid and Splendent in the Gimcrack Stakes . |
| 8 | Only the canny Mr Genscher , who knew the East Germans ' minds , could have thought of letting the regime save face by ‘ expelling ’ their own people across their own territory . |
| 9 | Other special services followed : The Reverend Wesley Gray brought the Dundonald Ladies ' Choir ; a team of nurses came from Lurgan and Portadown Hospital and a team of laymen came from Belfast : Thomas Street Old Boys ' Band and the Old Girls ' Association Choir came and one service was taken by Mr Donald Woodman BEM BA and the Portadown College School Choir . |
| 10 | Mrs. Norton , whose husband gave the Henley Ladies ' Club the trophy still known today as the Norton Cup , was to become the first Lady Rathcreedan in 1916 . |
| 11 | Swede Helen Alfredsson 's successful season in both Europe and America continued when she won the IBM Ladies ' Open in Stockholm . |
| 12 | The girl who marked a Moscow Games ' baptism by placing sixth in a final at the age of 14 is coming for a Tuesday night clinic in which she will demonstrate her famous shrug-of-the-shoulders technique on breaststroke . |
| 13 | WILL CLARK applied the coup de grace that extended the Chicago Cubs ' post-season losing streak to 44 years and took the San Francisco Giants into the World Series against their neighbours the Oakland Athletics . |
| 14 | But the news , later in the day , that the first of at least 10 chartered trains had at last crossed the border into Czechoslovakia revived the East Germans ' spirit of solidarity in the face of inconvenience and discomfort . |
| 15 | Albert Geldard , who gained an FA Cup-winners ' medal with Everton in 1933 and won four England caps , has died in a Bury hospital , aged 75 . |