Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their heads lowered to avoid the outstretched hand and pale features of a thin leather clad figure hunched over in a shop doorway . |
| 2 | At the RSPCA 's Centenary Conference in Oxford , a tall slim woman with greying hair drawn back in a pony tail , unobtrusively dressed in a shirt and slacks , came to the podium . |
| 3 | The Elton Report has produced a detailed set of recommendations following a comprehensive examination of the subject , informed by specially commissioned research carried out by a team from the University of Sheffield . |
| 4 | Family placement team members will be manning stalls at Alton market on Tuesday and at the Forest Centre , Bordon , on Thursday , to reinforce information broadcast nationwide during a week-long television campaign . |
| 5 | MORE than 30 people spent Christmas huddled together in a youth centre after fire broke out in a block of flats early yesterday . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think I 'll have time to yet , not till we get Dolly fixed up with a job and lodgings of her own . ’ |
| 7 | More and more old people will also have capital tied up in a house . |