Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] of [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before going to the shooting competition , he visited one of the rifle companies doing selection tests for promotion to Lance Corporal . |
| 2 | But when you loosened one of the slate blocks from the castle walls — an easy job , as the castle was slowly crumbling away — and split it open , on every surface so exposed a series of cut or engraved figures was revealed , arranged in lines and columns , complete with word and line breaks and what looked like punctuation . |
| 3 | He dug this whacking great hole in the floor like a tiger trap and caught one of the flower rota in it . |
| 4 | Later in the same month , French flyers , firing special rockets invented by a naval officer , in one day alone transformed five of the Crown Prince 's precious Drachen into searing bundles of flame . |
| 5 | ‘ Ca n't be much left of that bloody town , ’ shouted one of the 3″ mortar team as we watched the bombs falling from the aircraft . |
| 6 | At Episkopi , he found one of the Martini brothers down by the warehouses . |
| 7 | As soon as the train had cleared the tunnel the gangers found one of the lookout men lying unconscious by the side of the track . |
| 8 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 9 | ‘ The bad news , ’ went on Luke , tucking a strap into a buckle , ‘ is that one of today 's umpires , Jaime Calavessi , bumped one of the O'Brien boys wrong last week . |
| 10 | An upwelling current of hot liquid , be it tea or mantle , carries a lot of heat with it , and this factor provided one of the starting points for the new Plate Tectonic ideas . |
| 11 | He hooked one of the bentwood chairs into position with his foot and sat on it astride , arms resting on the back . |
| 12 | He tried two of the pilchard keys in the lock and put one away immediately . |
| 13 | When collecting the weekly account he told one of the cement gang his share was 6/ for beer . |
| 14 | The ten year old plaintiff dropped one of the paraffin lamps down the hole and due to an unusual combination of circumstances there was an explosion and the plaintiff was badly burned . |
| 15 | He stared down and studied one of the fire arrows dropped the previous night . |
| 16 | Norweigan Jan Aage Fjortoft was climbing to the top … he scored one of the Norway goals that put paid to Poland and stamped his country 's ticket for America and the 94 world cup … |
| 17 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 18 | I 've been so scared ! ’ squeaked one of the Leicester ladies . |
| 19 | and she ate two of the vegetable ones |
| 20 | Above them , his feet kicking , his hose stained , face black and tongue protruding , danced one of the kitchen minions . |
| 21 | ‘ This session , ’ commented one of the community participants , ‘ demonstrates that a dialogue is the best path to overcoming differences . |
| 22 | Then , with a shrug , she opened one of the cubicle doors and ushered him inside . |
| 23 | After completing the course towards the end of 1987 , I joined one of the RAF Engineering Policy Branches within the Ministry of Defence . |
| 24 | He was a regular visitor to Walton and also joined one of the cadet crews every year on one of the regular deployments to Belgium , Holland and France . |
| 25 | So , paying her bill , she decided to make for Gammel Strand and on impulse joined one of the canal tours . |
| 26 | HCIMA is a member of IHEI and chief executive , Jeremy Logie FHCIMA chaired one of the discussion groups . |
| 27 | Recently , the SAAF returned one of the SAA Dakotas , namely serial number 6888 which served with 44 Squadron . |
| 28 | To examine the role of axons in the proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursors , we transected one of the optic nerves in postnatal day 8 ( P8 ) rats . |
| 29 | But in the golden years institutionalized pay bargaining constituted one of the transmission mechanisms through which the requirements of accumulation , and the competitive struggles bred by them , generated the necessary real wage increases . |
| 30 | I therefore extended my area of search slightly and as I did this out popped one of the shop tokens illustrated . |