Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 2 | Yeah probably I think she 'll always be like it though , cos her mum 's just the same , she 's just like her mum , you know her mum got in a strop every day because she could n't go round , down the |
| 3 | Blue eyes twinkled in a face the colour of burned chalk . |
| 4 | Chris Nicholls from Plymouth asked for a Turbo The Tortoise infinite lives poke , so thanks go to W Keenan from Tyne and Wear for his/her help . |
| 5 | In London , the National Deaf Club boasted as a member a Henry John Jacobs , who was a barrister of the Inner Temple . |
| 6 | Alan , Carolyn and Christopher moved into a flat the September after he was born . |
| 7 | As abruptly as it had started , the storm stopped and the sun shone from a sky the colour of a Ceylon sapphire . |
| 8 | Elaborating on that point , Mr Gisby took as an example a 22-tonne load being moved 400 miles between London and Glasgow . |
| 9 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 10 | Altos systems are now distributed by Leeds-based Computer Services Technology Ltd and Metrologie UK : Altos ' relationship with Microvitec 's Logitek plc came to an end a few months ago . |
| 11 | The dramatic announcement came after a key No 10 meeting . |
| 12 | The IMF noted as an objective the reduction of Hungary 's current-account deficit in trade with the West , from $1,400 million in 1989 to $550 million in 1990 . |
| 13 | As she came uncertainly to him , Robert felt for a moment the deep pleasure and well-being of sun on his shoulders . |
| 14 | As the storm raged about them , the bier unaccountably broke and the corpse tumbled into a meadow the bailiff had been trying to extort . |
| 15 | Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom . |
| 16 | This was a much more comfortable victory for Kelburne than the score suggests for two of Torbrex 's goals were scored late in the game by Gordon Shepherd whose second strike came from a penalty a minute from time . |
| 17 | Marjory , his daughter by his first wife , was persuaded to agree that if the king died without a son the crown should pass to his brother Edward ; but to be on the safe side a marriage was arranged between Marjory and Walter , the hereditary High Steward , who in spite of his youth had distinguished himself at Bannockburn and become one of Bruce 's most trusted lieutenants . |
| 18 | As I told you , when my friend enquired about a job a couple of weeks ago she was told there were no vacancies at all . ’ |
| 19 | Everyone was too interested in singing to the actions of the game to take much notice , but as the game came to an end the Brownies saw that Brown Owl was gazing upwards with a rather troubled look on her face . |
| 20 | The diesel locomotive came to a halt a matter of feet from the structure ; eight people were fined £2,500 and spent a week in prison . |
| 21 | As soon as the propellers came to a standstill the passengers disembarked onto the parking bay in front of a small terminal building . |
| 22 | Although the Inspector went against a bypass the Secretary of State wants to re-examine . |
| 23 | Town 's attack never really got going … but the longer the game went without a goal the more the Swindon fans must have fancied their chances … |
| 24 | Rob asked with a grimace the following day . |
| 25 | Then Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which Mr Mason made at a lunch a few weeks earlier . |
| 26 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 27 | ‘ Formally , the Tyrrell Society came to an end the day of Ramsey 's funeral . |
| 28 | Roy Grainger 's daughter died of a tumour the day before her seventh birthday last November . |
| 29 | Thus when in 1304 Archbishop Corbridge of York admitted to a canonry a papal providee instead of a royal presentee , he was summoned for contempt and was told by the king 's judges that as the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere to the detriment of crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 30 | The project came to a head a year ago , when Ulrich Seifert , VW 's head of research , and Herbert Schaefer , VW 's design chief , commissioned the designs from Switzerland 's Art Centre College . |