Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is also going to help me in an approach to Michael Shea , former Palace press officer and diplomat ( see Who 's Who ) — I met Shea last night at one of the three seminars and receptions which has set up to mark the summit . |
| 2 | If Labour 's petit Bourbons fail to recognise at last that the division of the non-Tory vote has for two decades made majority Labour government impossible , and that the Liberal Democrats are not going to disappear , then at least a disunited rump of the UK will be consigned forever to that category . |
| 3 | Dismissing the recent vote of confidence by Peter Swales , chairman of the international committee who appointed Taylor three years ago , he said : ‘ Ultimately the decision comes back to me . ’ |
| 4 | A past chairman and managing director of the well-known Merseyside bakery firm , Mr Scott was elected to the Everton board in 1968 , and became chairman eight years later , in succession to Mr Alan Waterworth . |
| 5 | He became Chairman seven years later ; under his chairmanship profits rose from £1 million to £60 million , making him by far the most successful businessman in the East Riding . |
| 6 | We made camp that night in a clearing in the woods , and I put up my tent in what appeared to be a large sandpit , in the vague hope that perhaps the mozzies might not like it . |
| 7 | These are n't my lecture notes they I cribbed them off the social psychologist and made copies last night . |
| 8 | It reads forms you know we read forms that way cos normally |
| 9 | The government announced plans last October to build a further 30 reactors in the next 20 years , which would bring nuclear power 's share of the country 's electricity generating capacity to 17 per cent . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know much about their private affairs , ’ said Melissa guardedly , ‘ except that they are friends of many years ’ standing and have shared a house since they both became widows some time ago . ’ |
| 11 | As well as Janet , four students at the meeting became Branch Davidian recruiters in Britain . |
| 12 | The organic meat , the lambs , have been a success and made money last year . |
| 13 | So he got Times Roman headlines in , very simple layout , and he did some caps bold , and then he said to me he had done all the headlines ragged and I said you just missed one thing — centre the heads . |
| 14 | She got William some milk in a ladle from the kitchen . |
| 15 | This clone revealed CO III transcripts ( 825n . ) |
| 16 | ‘ Ah , ’ the guide said with too perfect a smile , ‘ then you may remember , too , that the doors through which we just passed measure seven point three two metres . |
| 17 | I met Marty last week . |
| 18 | Suffolk-based Eastern Electricity , which last year made £157 million profit , has asked 1,700 workers aged over 50 to apply for early retirement . |
| 19 | Last season Sudbury 's share of Courage support when they became Division Four South champions was £2,500 , but next season they face journeys from as far apart as Plymouth to Cumbria , and expenses of £10–12,000 . |
| 20 | Yeah that he just , he asked Gary this morning if he was looking for a job |
| 21 | The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous Jilly Cooper ( Bantam Press , May , £14.99 ) . |
| 22 | I got Lucy another pint of the lethal winter ale and for myself , a pint of Smithwick 's alcohol-free beer which looks and smells good enough to fool anyone . |
| 23 | Spennymoor impresario John Wray met Angie last summer and was inspired to book her for several tours of the North-East . |
| 24 | No less than the Jews , they became thc natural targets of his invective . |
| 25 | ‘ I met Woody five years ago , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Military officers have tried to seize power six times since Mrs Aquino became President three years ago . |
| 27 | Incidentally , I met Eleanor this morning and she 's scared out of her wits that the fuzz suspect her beloved . ’ |
| 28 | One colleague , Jackie Tillman , got wind one day of a piece of the drama in which North and Owen were engaged ; she heard that Owen , standing in the rain outside the White House , had handed $2,000–3,000 in cash to a Meskito Indian leader passing by in a car . |
| 29 | ‘ Salome recovered consciousness this morning . ’ |
| 30 | On Jan. 17 it met Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto before moving on to meet mujaheddin leaders in Peshawar . |