Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporal Stephen Paterson was found guilty of helping Bailey try to destroy evidence by a washing a pair of his bloodstained jeans . |
| 2 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 3 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 4 | Note : Where a residential period forms part of a course a higher fee will be charged . |
| 5 | She was able to act as a reconciling agent in a way no one could ever have foreseen . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that sperm production takes place at a temperature a couple of degrees lower than body temperature , so the process has to take place outside the body to function properly . |
| 7 | Those who are unhappy about calling Unionist Northern Ireland a democracy , or equally unhappy about not calling Britain as a whole a democracy , are compelled to return to questions of meaning and definition . |
| 8 | Rescuers , working in stifling temperatures in a space no bigger than three feet wide and two feet high , reached through a small hole they had dug to the men at 9.30pm and passed through drinks and sandwiches . |
| 9 | But already one thing was clear : the heat could not simply be due to deuterium dd fusion as this process should produce neutrons at a rate a billion times larger than they were recording . |
| 10 | The 1991 amateur circuit will kick off in traditional fashion with the Roehampton Gold Cup next month , while established tournaments like the Astor , Wentworth and Critchley Salvers , the St. Rule and Helen Holm Trophies , plus the ever-growing list of 36-hole ‘ open ’ tournaments , make life as an amateur a carefully planned operation . |
| 11 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 12 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 13 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 14 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 15 | This trial was repeated in the life of one of her daughters , Mary , who gave birth to a son a week after being widowed in 1737 . |
| 16 | For curved cuts you 'll need a coping saw , and for making cut-outs within a workpiece a padsaw will be invaluable . |
| 17 | Koo Stark was awarded £300,000 by a jury the following year , and Elton John set a short-lived record with his £1 million settlement against " The Sun " . |
| 18 | Experience in the laboratory or in the field gives those who do not intend to undertake research as a career the opportunity to learn how their subject has progressed through experiment . |
| 19 | It was a I was gon na ask you you know , wh when you moved from shunter to foreman , you had responsibilities for a lot a lot besides the shunting . |
| 20 | Someone in Newton Aycliffe very nearly had need of a solicitor the other day , we 're informed . |
| 21 | Have Ministers considered taxing people who accommodate students as a business the universal business rate rather than the property rate , and whether that might be a way of avoiding any burden falling on students ? |
| 22 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 23 | We have to produce food at a price the consumer is prepared to pay . |
| 24 | The Tolson Memorial Museum is in Ravensknowle Park , where some parts of the town 's eighteenth-century Cloth Hall have been re-erected , after the historic building 's demolition in 1930 to make way for a cinema the local product was displaced by fantasies woven in Hollywood . |