Example sentences of "group [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mailer was a charter member of an informal group called the Committee to Investigate Assassinations ( CIA ) , run by a Washington lawyer , Bud Fensterwald . |
| 2 | According to official Soviet sources , members of a paramilitary group called the Mkhedrioni , allied to the pro-Congress parties , on the evening of Sept. 18 kidnapped and assaulted Vazh Adamiya , a prominent figure in the rival Round Table coalition , and afterwards exchanged gunfire with Round Table supporters on Tbilisi 's main Rustaveli Prospekt . |
| 3 | The vicar of St Giles introduced him to the little religious group called the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , and one of those priests , Gordon Day , became a friend of Ramsey and adviser in religion . |
| 4 | In Philadelphia , Thom Bell was going in the opposite direction , enveloping a romantic vocal group called the Delfonics in a jacuzzi of French horns , flugelhorns , flutes , strings , harps , tinkerbell glockenspiels and even Indian sitars . |
| 5 | All this talk about scum reminded me that over here ( Montreal ) scum is an acronym for a um er feminist group called the Society for Cutting Up Men … they are a nice bunch of girls and would probably be Man U fans if they watched football . |
| 6 | Meanwhile vendors and users including Aspect Telecommunications Inc , Envoy Systems Inc , Ericsson , IBM Corp and Logica Plc have formed a group called the Association of Computer Telephone Integration Users & Suppliers or ACTIUS . |
| 7 | Eight members of a group called The Prophet Mohammed 's Army were sentenced to death on Nov. 25 by a special tribunal composed of three military judges for crimes " against state security " [ see also p. 38457 ] . |
| 8 | Authorities as a whole divided themselves clearly into three groups ( see Table 19 ) : firstly , those who said that one person or a small specified group allocated the equivalent of a quarter of their time to training , secondly , those authorities who estimated a smaller amount of one person 's time ( normally 10–15% and most commonly Deputy or Assistant Chiefs ) and thirdly , those allocating largely nominal ( or no responsibility ) for training . |
| 9 | On May 14 the town fell to the Somali Liberation Army ( SLA ) — described as a loose grouping which included the faction of the USC which supported Farah Aydid , a new group entitled the South Somali National Movement ( SSNM ) , and another faction of the SPM . |