Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Youngsters from 14–17 got an exclusive insight into the repertoire of a military band as players demonstrated everything from trumpet fanfares to dance music . |
2 | Each owned a weird splotch of colour in a white and silver frame , painted and framed by a local artist . |
3 | That got a rapturous round of applause too . |
4 | The unfortunate Capel Junior made a terrible hash of things and belted the ball yards over the bar . |
5 | Each produced a significant shift in course and within a short space of time wrought a substantial transformation in the direction of national policy and popular attitudes . |
6 | He looked at the other screens : each provided a different perspective of the same scene . |
7 | That drew a fiery glare from her and more resonant chuckles from the golden man , until — flushed and annoyed as well as uneasy — I got the floater away from there . |
8 | That drew an angry reaction from Watertight , which had invested more than £200,000 in preparation work . |
9 | That created a private right in Mrs. Keyte . |
10 | That involved a fair amount of travel . |
11 | Mr Welt and Mr Walpit each built a special cage for the Bookman . |
12 | When we say and we 've often said it , well we could do with this , we could do with that like we used to say , we wanted the swimming pool well that cost an awful lot of money ! |
13 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
14 | The British produced a remarkable variety of stations in West Africa , all faithfully recorded in the photographic collection of the Crown Agents who were closely involved in their building . |
15 | In the summer of the same year ( 1356 ) the English planned a threefold attack on France . |
16 | The British became a dominant influence in Persian life during the nineteenth century ; but to this day many Persians believe that Britain merely exploited Persia for the sake of India throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
17 | This became a forward base for the NPFL , and reports told of ships being diverted to Buchanan and their cargoes used to replenish the rebel supplies . |
18 | Green also made much of Claude 's ‘ Air ’ and this became a paramount feature in the Ambleside painter 's work . |
19 | This became a strong reason to him for the practice of private confession . |
20 | Since this became a standard feature of trusts it is not helpful to treat it as if it were dependent solely on an especially close regard for the testator 's intention . |
21 | This became an emergent feature of British ( and other European ) inclusive tour companies in the late 1960s as the expansion of charter non-scheduled activity gained momentum . |
22 | Lethal Weapon 2 got a U certificate in France , but the British censor would n't even pass it for over-18s without some of the violence being cut . |
23 | At the negotiations , the English made an important concession in saying that the claim to the French crown might be traded for a sovereign Normandy . |
24 | This channelled a complete stream of water — and quite cold it was — on to my stomach and woke me up . |
25 | Coming from an administration whose leader laid claim to effective action on global issues such as the hole in the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect ( see Chapter 11 ) , this revealed a remarkable weakness in the position of the DoE . |
26 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on June 12 passed a long-awaited law on the press and mass media , featuring detailed guarantees of press freedom and the rules for journalistic practice , and the abolition of censorship . |
27 | Some made a good job of the sandwich element , but many paid it lip service . |
28 | This produced a spectacular decline in the number of birds successfully reared and eventually in the total population of adult birds . |
29 | This produced a rich seam of tips , much of it from the artists at the Theatre Royal during rehearsals . |
30 | This produced a defensive posture at the gateway to the system : admission was to be avoided if at all possible , and only used as a ‘ last resort ’ . |