Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun pl] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | I drew a rolls royce and not a plane . |
2 | She stopped a police car and pointed to it . |
3 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
4 | We recently acquired a darts board and this has proved very popular so if you have spare darts and/or a darts board , carpet bowls or skittles these too will be received with gratitude . |
5 | By the 1060s , it supported a cattle market and a mint , and may have been the shire 's legal centre ; across the river from the main town , a growing suburban hamlet formed the nucleus of the modern Cliffe . |
6 | He said Joyce had a drugs problem but had voluntarily sought help . |
7 | One of his members had a dealers license and drove to cities like Houston to buy and sell at gun fairs . |
8 | I thought if I just had a man who had a yacht and he had a rolls royce and a yacht . |
9 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
10 | If you twitched a horses lip or ear that happens , I would really like to see if I twitched your ear . |
11 | A man who sported a sports car and sideboards , a season ticket and a sculpture teacher , a man who produced his own series and had a bachelor pad , a Peter Sarstedt LP and a past ? |
12 | In August I stole a sports car and went to the South of France . |
13 | In the same year Bavaria and Wurttemberg concluded a customs agreement and a Central German Customs Union was formed in response , rather as EFTA was formed in response to the EEC . |