Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a large [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
| 2 | I remember that he liked one in celebration of wool ; another was of everything brown or gray , for which I had arranged a large collection of natural objects , of woven and blockprinted textiles , pots , and beautiful bowls and boxes made of wood . |
| 3 | By 1880 he had completed a large wing of workshops . |
| 4 | As a present I had received a large book of complex Legion history written in difficult French . |
| 5 | There they had joined a large group of sect heavies , some of whom were armed . |
| 6 | On her head was a hat that looked as if someone had dropped a large meringue on her head . |
| 7 | He had ensured a large population by making the land inalienable and by prohibiting the exposure of children , a practice common among the Greeks . |
| 8 | The widely publicised work of Basil Bernstein had made a large public at least aware of the possibility that pupils ' response to the process of education might be limited by their habitual uses of the mother tongue . |
| 9 | Shortly before this great day Vigilant 's crew had made a large seizure from a Finnish vessel berthed in the Thames , the goods concerned being unearthed from a very clever concealment , and the Queen was very interested to hear about the incident . |
| 10 | The second defendant had made a large number of deliveries to and collections from the premises on Capricorn 's account . |
| 11 | The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry . |
| 12 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 13 | The brilliance of the flame had collected a large crowd of urchins , dancing in the warmth ; behind them the cabmen stamped their feet and held forth their hands to the glow . |
| 14 | The film crew had leased a large hangar at Ford Island and used it as their headquarters during the filming . |
| 15 | Information published in Le Figaro in September 1991 following Swiss investigations appeared to confirm that , as speculated in the press at the time , Roger-Patrice Pelat , a friend of Mitterrand who died in March 1989 [ see p. 36706 ] , had bought a large number of Triangle shares via a Swiss company , Experta Treuhand , only days before the Pechiney-ANC deal . |
| 16 | After five minutes of rapid chasing , Fitz had isolated a large group of adolescent colobus , and all the chimps in the trees started making the typical exciting hunting barks . |
| 17 | He was going to return in three days ' time , and had invited a large number of ladies and gentlemen to stay for several days . |
| 18 | In December 1989 Najibullah had arrested a large number of Khalqi officers whom he suspected of plotting against him [ see p. 37184 ] . |
| 19 | This had necessitated a large number of meetings , particularly for the Socialisation of Industries Committee and the Social Services Committee : ministers had tended to bring too many items to committee ; senior ministers had wanted to keep an eye on their more junior colleagues , and as a result a heavy burden fell on a handful . |
| 20 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 21 | They had inherited a large number of hire schemes , and sometimes ( particularly for cookers in working class areas ) found it economic to continue these . |
| 22 | By the end of that century , engineers had converted a large part of the area to agricultural land . |
| 23 | ‘ Sit down , ’ said Stone , after he had taken a large mouthful of the whisky . |
| 24 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 25 | On top of the recession , British Gas had lost a large part of its industrial commercial market as a result of an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 26 | The Socialists had captured a large number of the Councils and Boards of Guardians throughout the country , and there was only one thing left for them to take charge of — the British Empire . |