Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those 363 hotel pools , 31% were found to have inadequate or no rescue equipment and 21% lacked or had insufficient pool surround fitments . |
| 2 | Those companies between them owned or managed 95 fishing vessels which were until 31 March 1989 registered as British fishing vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 ( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60 ) . |
| 3 | Partly no doubt because Bob had been brought up in Thornton Heath , he was popular with local fans , but his popularity also stemmed from the fact the he made or scored vital goals precisely when they were needed . |
| 4 | McIntosh is too much the diplomat to say what he really thinks about the firm 's three year spell inside the TSB empire , except to say two things — firstly that he doubts whether it either made or lost much money on its investment , and secondly that Hill Samuel was very supportive once the decision to sell had been taken in principle . |
| 5 | From 1828 to 1850 he acted as engineer to the Scottish Fisheries Board , in which capacity he built or improved numerous harbours , including Dunbar , Fraserburgh , Inverness , and Wick . |
| 6 | Second to Henry Yevele , Wynford was an architect of genius who transformed and unified English building . |
| 7 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 8 | Okidata Microsystems Division , the Japanese giant 's fledgling flight into the US workstation business , crashed and burned last week , taking the remnants of the Mass860 consortium — the Intel Corp i860 RISC supporters club — with it . |
| 9 | Garland crashed and suffered slight burns . |
| 10 | He rose and went next door to find the girl he knew would be sleeping there . |
| 11 | Instead of ringing for the maid she rose and poured more tea . |
| 12 | They often stroked and embraced each other and me . |
| 13 | Over 90 per cent stated that they frequently supervised and assisted small groups of children engaged in educational activities set by the teacher , and encouraged children by offering appropriate attention and by showing interest in their activities . |
| 14 | ‘ The investigation has revealed major defects in the way in which British Rail 's Southern Region signalling and telecommunications department organised resignalling work , and supervised and tested completed wiring . ’ |
| 15 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 16 | Once on the first aerodrome , Brueckner stopped and made some excuse about engine problems , saying that he had to try to get a key for the toolbox . |
| 17 | However we stopped and got good directions . |
| 18 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 19 | They stopped and faced each other . |
| 20 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 21 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |
| 22 | As in the past preservation will be influenced not by what historians want but by the needs and fortunes of the social structures which created and guarded such information . |
| 23 | As he did all his life , he also found and encouraged new designers and composers . |
| 24 | There was no moon showing and the gas lamp opposite the dining rooms flickered and cast frightening shadows down the cobbled lane . |
| 25 | The main interest is centred on the splendid harbour , almost completely landlocked and providing excellent shelter . |
| 26 | Morgan characterises Swan Light 's advertising as positive , lighthearted and conferring normal beer values of sociability and humour . |
| 27 | Choosing quite deliberately to envisage literature as a " cog and a screw " in an ideological crusade against the combined forces of capitalism , colonialism and fascism , Radek reviewed and assessed foreign literatures in terms of their responses to the major historical events of the early twentieth century . |
| 28 | 1 Egg White 2 tablespoons of Soy Sauce 1 teaspoon of Five-Spice Powder 2 large White Fish Fillets , skinned and cut into thick strips Good Quality Cooking Oil 1 Leek , sliced diagonally 1 Clove of Garlic , crushed 1 Red Pepper , cored and sliced ¼ Cucumber , halved , deseeded and sliced 1 tablespoon of Fresh Ginger , grated |
| 29 | The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while . |
| 30 | Winston Thomas , 47 , who became known as the Bus Stop Rapist , had raped two women and assaulted and robbed three others in a two-month reign of terror in Wood Green , north London . |