Example sentences of "and [vb past] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors often pop into reception , one caller recently brought in a vole wrapped up in paper and asked the girls advice as to what to do with it . |
| 2 | He also called unsuccessfully for concerted action by the US , USSR , France , and Great Britain , and announced an arms embargo to all belligerents . |
| 3 | To understand the qualitative features of the binding of GH5 to DNA , we have taken the structure of the CAP/DNA complex , and made a least-squares superposition of GH5 onto CAP on the basis of the sequence alignment in Fig. 4 . |
| 4 | She laughed more and Tucker was smiling , intoxicated by the sound escaping from her , which shook the sofa , reverberated in the rafters and made the parrots screech . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The European Parliament called for an independent inquiry and proposed an arms embargo on Indonesia . |
| 7 | Is he aware that there has been at least one case in which , having seen a name badge , a claimant looked in the phone book and traced the Benefits Agency employee to his home . |
| 8 | 65th minute : Ian Wright emerged from an innocuous challenge with Howells and clouted the Spurs man . |
| 9 | It came to the rescue of Rolls-Royce and of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and negotiated an incomes policy with the unions . |
| 10 | She led him upstairs to a homely-looking sitting-room , and opened the drinks cupboard . |
| 11 | and he always provided a very smart car , and the first policeman to drive the police car was his own chauffeur , who left him and joined the police force . |
| 12 | Coun Long said she shared Coun Stenson 's concern for children and emphasised the Arts Centre brochure of events said the exhibition was unsuitable for youngsters . |
| 13 | They were informal and informative and included a women firefighter giving a talk on her personal experience . ’ |
| 14 | Jim Parkinson did a logo for a magazine called Ocean , where he took Times Bold , widened it slightly and then thinned the serifs and thinned the horizontals way down , and it was wonderful . |
| 15 | So he just smiled as enigmatically as he knew how , and pocketed the drinks key . |
| 16 | With a savage cry he drove into her one last time and felt the shockwaves pulse through him , draining all sensation and leaving a blessed numbness in which there was no more pain … |
| 17 | He referred to a mysterious Mr Noble as the man who had recruited Badenoch and brought the drugs north for distribution . |
| 18 | Lewis asked himself this question as he went down in the lift and crossed the arrivals hall of Terminal Two to await the exodus from Customs . |
| 19 | The apples were the fruits of perpetual youth and gave the gods immortality . |
| 20 | Anne Ridler noticed how Eliot " affected a certain detachment from the proceedings , and did The Times crossword during the meetings , but his business judgments were as shrewd as anyone 's … " |
| 21 | Does not that contrast with the Conservative policy of reducing the betting levy by 2.5 per cent. , which has given £100 million to sport and increased the Sports Council grant to £50 million — |
| 22 | I knew nothing about fish , but as time went by , I went mad and bought a 24″ glass tank with a crude external filter . |
| 23 | Southwestern Bell Corp , St Louis , got a clean bill of health from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed its Southwestern Bell Telephone Co 's A-plus senior unsecured debt and A-1 commercial paper and said the ratings outlook is stable . |
| 24 | José Miguel Mérida Escobar led the investigation into the stabbing death , in September 1990 , of anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang and wrote the police report which named an officer of the intelligence branch of the army as one of those responsible for the killing . |
| 25 | The John family were tenants for two generations around the turn of this century and ran a hauliers business from the farm , where they stabled thirty or more shire horses . |
| 26 | He turned and left the Operations Room . |
| 27 | This morning , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said that he wanted to see more policemen on the beat , yet when he was a member of the last Labour Cabinet he cut the number of policemen and left the police force under strength . |
| 28 | We approached Ford , Honda and BMW dealers in Slovakia , and explained the oil-plus-parts concept to them . ’ |
| 29 | When I felt able , I returned to the house where Lem , the embalmer 's brother , gave me all the particulars he had of the accident and suggested the police department would have any further details . |
| 30 | Schools run themselves some have left the authority , we still have three education sub committees a major education committee , numerous sub groups and working parties and it 's gone time we recognised the changing world and streamlined the members side of the education department in the same way that the officer side 's been streamlined and slimmed down . |