Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 So this gentleman designed a machine and I 've got a picture of the machine here , which you can see .
2 This dog has already won a CC and in-show awards .
3 Denton , Texas-based Scott Instruments Corp has won a development and distribution agreement with Silicon Graphics Inc for its speech recognition systems for workstations but terms were n't disclosed : speech-aware Silicon Graphics workstations , expected to be available in the second half of the year , will respond to spoken commands .
4 Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end .
5 The Lisburn teacher coaches Churches League third division side Village Star , a team who have never won a trophy and , until this year , never got past the second round of junior soccer 's top competition .
6 ‘ Since winning the European Championship they have not won a match and have not even scored a goal . ’
7 Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go
8 Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go
9 Siward jerked his head , and a hail of arrows and javelins sped rustling from the forest on either side of him and thudded , in sufficient reply , into the ground between himself and Kalv 's nephew by marriage , who had won a kingdom and thought he was no one 's vassal yet .
10 She has now been a ticket collector for more than 15 years and has won a radio and a newspaper award for her personality and popularity with passengers .
11 I 've , I 've fried a mouse and a port doing that .
12 Another criticism generally expressed was that headhunters , having approached a candidate and then been turned down , did not hesitate to make the most of the contact they had made despite the rejection and go on to ask , ‘ Well , can you recommend someone who would be interested ? ’
13 But they have operated against terrorists , they those terrorists have committed a crime and through intelligence the S A S have been in situ and have immediately shot those criminals .
14 We have to dig deep into records to find these and then only if they have committed a crime or some other act do they get their names recorded .
15 That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out .
16 The possibility that he had committed a sin but no murder .
17 Hargreaves continued the Sheffield pattern by mounting exhibitions by young artists in Imperial 's Consort Gallery , quality shows that soon attracted a following and that for years formed a regular feature of the London art scene .
18 Yeah , that 's , once the conifers are all growing up , we 're going to have a garden shed a greenhouse and I 'm gon na build a summer house up the garden , that 's by , by round where the pond is
19 Dropped a tile and it pierced it right the way through .
20 Mossadeq declared that he had forestalled a coup and issued orders for Zahedis arrest .
21 On less tangible aspects the tour must have added a plus or two to the English rugby character , for there were problems with the itinerary , occasionally with the accommodation .
22 ‘ I may possibly have added a word or two . ’
23 Gregory should have added a second but he headed tamely over after Gary Thompson had stormed down the right .
24 After Rocastle 's early strike , Norwegian Frank Strandli should have added a second but blazed wide .
25 We made ball and roller bearings for the car trade , the car trade had come a slump and the car trade to this day does n't want one bearing or one detail for a car until it 's ready to put it on a car .
26 By 1815 , with the help of junior partners in Marshall and Co. , he had amassed a fortune and gained fame as an astute businessman .
27 I had never edited a fanzine and never heard anything by SPK or Bunny Wailer .
28 If the message : Enter Y to save changes to document , N to lose changes , or Esc to cancel appears , you have edited a file and not yet saved it again .
29 French farmers have hijacked a lorry and destroyed its load of strawberries bound for Britain .
30 The sadness and this is this subject was forecast a year and a half ago er that we are phasing in i in large management and land and it was raised , we had that seminar but before that there were also erm worries expressed before this predicament .
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