Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect the borough council would like to see a framework established which acknowledges explicitly that in the right circumstances strategic employment development can be accommodated in the county . |
| 2 | An off-duty policeman who was attacked with a hammer had his teth broken and bones in his face shattered . |
| 3 | Wreathed with white wistaria , they are half-hidden behind a ghostly phalanx of variegated osteospermum , Salvia argentea , white allium and a banksiae rose which has managed to escape predatory Wicklow deer . |
| 4 | This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought . |
| 5 | and we were going their house , but it was n't Judith 's , it was Rob 's mum and dad 's down Road and er we went in and you did n't know anything about it , and I walked in a Rob said she 's had it ! |
| 6 | POLICE last night appealed for information about the whereabouts of a missing antiques dealer as a man claimed he owes him £1,600 . |
| 7 | What annoys him is people who say Moliere is not funny : ‘ I do n't read reviews although I understand we have done extremely well , but a couple thought it has to be very serious . |
| 8 | When it finds a label declared it generates a BBCBASIC(Z80) variable with that name and loads it with the current value of the program counter ( P% ) . |