Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Johnson group seized the wounded Doe and took him away , while the ECOWAS force looked on , apparently helpless . |
| 2 | While there he begged a look around a semi-derelict Dakota and realised he was hooked on propliners ! |
| 3 | Hodge came from rural Illinois and had climbed the military hierarchy without the prestige of having served at West Point . |
| 4 | When you rang up that Saturday and checked the registration of the Rolls , I thought the police were on to the Theale murder . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Pozsgay 's contribution was his support for ‘ populist ’ writers who drew their inspiration from rural Hungary and championed ‘ national values ’ . |
| 6 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 7 | Dulwich Picture Gallery No previous knowledge is required for a five-day course on Conservation , Care and Appreciation of Old Master Paintings ( 22-26 Jan and repeated 29 Jan-2 Feb 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Dr. Jack Weir , moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland , met Roy Mason , the secretary of state for Northern Ireland , on 31st March and presented him with a memorandum drafted in judicious , forceful terms . |
| 9 | As a result Truman went before Congress on 12 March and asked that US money be provided for these two states . |
| 10 | He got the pending Indian debate brought forward a week to 12 March and took little counsel about the form of his speech , although receiving plenty of advice from his colleagues to strike a conciliatory note . |
| 11 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 12 | P. E. When we were at Old Swan and had to go to Fairfield , we used to pass the end of one of the little streets there . |
| 13 | Six members of staff restrained Sigsworth and took him into a secure room where he was injected with a drug and the police were called . |
| 14 | Dr Mardell said the last distribution of aid in Srebrenica before his arrival had been on 12 December and had provided four kilos of flour per family — enough for about one week . |
| 15 | And he glanced round at the still-insensible Liam and threw away the cigarette in disgust . |
| 16 | This Burma and appraised her worth . |
| 17 | His personal representative , Colonel Stanton Babcock , met officials in Washington on 2 November and conveyed MacArthur 's latest thoughts . |
| 18 | Pilot Gerard Gaillard landed the stricken aircraft on the A40 in the French Alps and steered it into crash barriers . |
| 19 | He came into the Northampton side at home to Luton on 30 October and scored a hat-trick in a 6–1 win , following this with another against Southend in December . |
| 20 | So we ordered another Guinness and soaked up the atmosphere some more . |
| 21 | The LSI Executive met in Brussels on 12 October and rejected the suggestions . |
| 22 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 23 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 24 | For example , relations with the Emperor Bao Dai , who was to be told on Acheson 's instructions , when he arrived back in Saigon in October 1950 , that many people including a great number of Americans , had been unable to understand the reasons for his ‘ prolonged holiday ’ on the French Riviera and had indeed misinterpreted it as an indication of lack of patriotic attachment to his role of Chief of State . |
| 25 | The Kabbalists developed a similar mythical conception of the inner life of God in their depiction of the world of the Sephirot , the divine spheres which emanated from the unknowable God and enabled him to be known by man : these emanations provided man with the means of ascending to the deity . |
| 26 | He crossed the Irish channel on 12 August and reached Little Lea on the morning of the thirteenth . |
| 27 | When Disney 's Euro park was first mooted I , too , saw it as a cultural Chernobyl and prayed that some mad French intellectual would blow it up . |
| 28 | ‘ Get some Blu-Tack and put up those posters I bought . |
| 29 | Mrs Orton told Stephanie how in her day they made right big puffed-up brown Yorkshires and served them separate , with the gravy poured in , before the meat , to spin it out , you had to scrape and pinch in them days . |
| 30 | He jumped on a bus outside the Old Bailey and injured himself when he fell off in North London . |