Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pelops came from Asia Minor he found thirteen heads nailed on the palace front ; but he bribed Oenomaus 's groom Myrtilos ( with the promise of Hippodameia 's favours ) to take the lynch-pin from one of his master 's chariot-wheels and substitute one of wax . |
| 2 | ‘ I came by here once , with the wind wet and howling , and I found three Japanese huddled under the lip of the bunker . ’ |
| 3 | I argued very hard to have you thrown to the wolves after the police found four low-lifes strewn around the locker room of that gym . |
| 4 | The strategy ( Huggett , 1980 ) involved four phases identified as the lexical phase which necessitates identification of system components ; the parsing phase which involves establishing relationships between system components ; the modelling phase which requires expression of relationships in the context of a model and then calibrating the model ; and the analysis phase in which there is an attempt to solve the system model and if not successful the procedure is repeated with a modified model . |
| 5 | The scan times were reduced to three and five seconds and one competitor embodied 288 detectors compared with the 20 seconds and 30 detectors of EMI . |
| 6 | Hawke received 66 votes compared with the 44 cast in favour of his challenger , Paul Keating , 47 , the federal Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister . |
| 7 | In the elections for President of the new Territorial Assembly on March 28 Vernaudon was supported by both the Flosse and the Léontieff coalitions and received 37 votes compared with the four cast for Temaru , the only other candidate . |
| 8 | We studied 116 patients referred to the pigmented lesion clinic at the Western Infirmary , Glasgow , because of concern over an atypical naevus pattern . |
| 9 | The corresponding 1991 figure showed 500 buy-outs completed at a cost of £2.6 billion . |
| 10 | Police in London unveiled 7 handguns found in a holdall under a bed . |
| 11 | Police in London unveiled 7 handguns found in a holdall under a bed . |
| 12 | He made fourteen suggestions related to the recruitment and deployment of teachers . |
| 13 | He and his men spent three winters trapped in the ice , but sadly the drift was south as well as west and the ship was released north of Svalbard having reached a point no closer than several hundred miles from the pole . |
| 14 | The Miyagi by-election victor Koki Hagino , the candidate of Rengo-no-kai ( the political arm of Japan 's largest labour organization ) , polled 396,532 votes compared with the 393,615 votes won by the LDP candidate , Nobuo Onodera , and 67,378 votes achieved by Hisashi Tsujihata , the candidate of the Japan Communist Party . |
| 15 | Six demonstrators spent two hours chained to the fence at the R-A-F Aston Down Airfield near Stroud . |
| 16 | The Walkman was lying in the road beside the vehicles , and Spicer later returned four cassettes taken from the Peugeot . |
| 17 | Its opponents included 105 Republicans led by the House Minority Whip , Newt Gingrich , most of whom opposed any increases in taxation , while the Democrats opposed cuts in benefits and services . |
| 18 | The announcement by President Clinton was made as a UN aid convoy reached 70,000 Muslims trapped in the eastern Bosnian town of Gorazde after Serb rebels held up its progress for two days . |
| 19 | I saw three people hit in the face , one above the eye , one in the ear , one on the nose , blood streaming down them . |
| 20 | The accord contained 25 articles arranged under the three sub-headings listed below : |
| 21 | But finally I saw one animal come through the grass to play . |
| 22 | He already saw fifteen sepoys stretched on the ground and himself standing over them with this weapon smoking in his hand … or rather , in both hands . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw two people hurt on the bridge about 500 metres from where the bomb went off . |
| 24 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 25 | Kevin McMamara toured St Bede 's School in Kings Way where he saw 19 youngsters crammed into a tiny room . |
| 26 | Sponsored by Sainsbury 's supermarket chain , this year 's event at Smith 's Galleries in Covent Garden from 26 October offered 508 works sold over a six-day period , raising £241,248 . |
| 27 | After the coup , Yeltsin banned six newspapers allowed by the SCSE . |
| 28 | Ministry officials blamed the crime wave on economic shortages , inter-ethnic tensions ( to which some officials attributed two bombs found on the Moscow metro on April 20 ) , drugs , and the movement by organized crime into the co-operative movement ; increasing unemployment was also blamed . |
| 29 | He asked 499 people arrested during the Detroit riot of 1967 to recall how they had reacted to television pictures of previous US riots . |
| 30 | So we had eight people huddled over the desk arguing about the sound . |