Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A leather helmet of the Durham Artillery Militia , circa 1853 , in its tin carrying case , realised £1,800 . |
| 2 | Although flying is officially banned within a radius of one nautical mile and below 2,000 feet around the station , Dr Ray Seymour , a research physicist from Somerset County Council , produced Ministry of Defence figures which showed that roughly 2,400 flights each year from the nearby Yeovilton air base pass over or adjacent to Hinkley Point . |
| 3 | This was not the opinion of the archaeologists who attacked Watkins ' ideas following publication of The Old Straight Track in 1925 . |
| 4 | A member of the Spooner family , connected to Wilberforce by his marriage to Barbara Spooner , became Archdeacon of Coventry with responsibility for Birmingham and had close links to the evangelical Calthorpes , landowners and philanthropists in the city . |
| 5 | A Tractarian , whose work for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel attracted national attention , he became archdeacon of Dorset in 1862 but resigned , through ill health , nine months later . |
| 6 | ‘ What must we do to travel with you ? ’ asked Taliesin , and for a moment Fael-Inis did not reply . |
| 7 | ‘ What will happen ? ’ asked Taliesin . |
| 8 | ‘ Is there a difficulty ? ’ asked Taliesin . |
| 9 | Malaysia sought support for its initiative in various forums and in November 1971 succeeded in gaining a cautious endorsement for it from ASEAN in the form of a declaration issued by a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Kuala Lumpur . |
| 10 | Baker also sought support for the USA 's opposition to a Malaysian proposal for an East Asian trade grouping which excluded the USA [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 11 | The HCIMA sought support from all of the relevant industry and education groupings to determine whether this would be supported by all concerned . |
| 12 | This led to elections for a new Constituent Assembly in which the Christian Democrats emerged as the strongest party , had one of their leaders — Georges Bidault — made premier , and were then able to draw up a constitution better suited to their tastes . |
| 13 | He said she got rings , she got necklaces , she got two or three watches . |
| 14 | The mirthless chuckle made Peregrine sound more serious than the two girls had every known him . |
| 15 | But the Euro-sceptics got support from an unexpected source on Monday evening . |
| 16 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 17 | No , it started at our first show in Glasgow , and then we got support slots with Mudhoney before we were a developed band . |
| 18 | I got support from my sister , but I did miss them . |
| 19 | I also got support from er Labour Labour Party in Leith who sent down two volunteers to help me . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There are some really good women writers around at the moment ; Shawn Colvin 's excellent , and so 's a woman called Ferron , although she got kind of pigeonholed into ‘ women 's music ’ , and I think that 's limited her audience . |
| 22 | sort of got kind of an odd relationship between the friends |
| 23 | I 'll bet it got kind of cosy at night ! |
| 24 | BONG : Then foreign correspondent Brent Sadler , 41 , who quit ITN for CNN at Christmas , split with his second wife . |
| 25 | She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming . |
| 26 | Under its agreement with IBM Corp , Intel Corp can only sit back and watch while IBM stuffs its versions of the Intel iAPX-86 microprocessor family into boards and sells them on the OEM market , and yesterday , IBM 's Electronic Card Assembly & Test Plant in Charlotte , North Carolina announced contracts totalling $344m to manufacture personal computer planar boards for two California firms : Eteq Microsystems Inc in Milpitas and that new company , Alaris Inc , just formed by those Everexes in Fremont ( CI No 2,121 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ You mean , let him run and tail him ? ’ asked Walters . |
| 28 | ‘ How is the President , ’ asked Walters , ‘ since … the news ? ’ |
| 29 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 30 | One who sought sanctuary was a Milanese noble called Landriani , who was pursued to the columns , but escaped inside the convent . |