Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over .
2 Now 3 × £9 is £27 , if you add the £2 that the porter kept you have a total of £29 — so who 's got the missing £1 ?
3 That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going .
4 The porter gestured him over .
5 The carpenter looked at him , then at Benedicta and , throwing back his head , laughed hysterically until the porter struck him across the face .
6 They had missed breakfast but the porter brought them coffee and hot rolls in one of the small lounges , then rang for a taxi to take them to Royalbion House .
7 The porter brought me the message .
8 The porter joined them , scratching his thinning hair .
9 The response astounded us and delighted Durham County Cricket Club , who are backing the tournament .
10 The ferocity of the response hurt him deeply , although he could say , ‘ I told you so ’ with ICI 's announcement that it is to split into two to enhance shareholder value .
11 The Premier made it clear he was not being forced out .
12 Mrs Hughes , from Marske , Cleveland , was 108 when she had tea at No 10 with the then Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher — and later she returned the compliment when the premier visited her home while in north-east England .
13 And from that Sunday the tent collapsed we could n't really concentrate on anything else .
14 I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity .
15 But as the continents grew they gleaned more of the carbon from the oceans and atmosphere .
16 Since 1964 six polytechnics and colleges have taken the opportunity afforded them by the Council for National Academic Awards to design and develop courses culminating in the C.N.A.A .
17 At the same time , the early Church had no compunction about modifying its own tenets and dogma in order to capitalise on the opportunity afforded it .
18 Most of the eagles in the Cages have forgotten , for they can not bear to remember , and because of that even if the opportunity came they would not be able to return to their homesites .
19 Mickie then and there decided that if the opportunity arose he would team up with Raoul on future helicopter design .
20 His assistant , Tony Rogers , added : ‘ We did apologise to passengers and the majority accepted it was a case of high spirits . ’
21 Of those whose ideal holiday differs from the kind they usually take , the majority said they would like to go further afield , for example , to Australia , the Far East , Asia or the US for four to six weeks .
22 Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete .
23 Instead the majority said it was because there were simply not enough people in the family to increase their agricultural production .
24 I read the Blues Brothers review and the soundtrack gave me an idea : why not have a soundtrack chart in ZZAP ! ?
25 In the event , Tyndale 's unorthodox beliefs and his lack of support for the annulment prevented him from having any direct impact on royal policy .
26 The thought had barely come and gone , and I was in the act of reaching out to replace the whisky bottle , when a long burst of electric-blue light from the aperture showed me something that froze me in mid-reach .
27 A screwed access plug or ‘ eye ’ in the bottom of the U made it possible to empty the trap of debris if it got blocked .
28 In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him .
29 ‘ But all the experts told us to stay at Bart 's .
30 The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong .
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