Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This spilled over to a fall in the reservation prices .
2 And this came about through a sequence of catastrophes , movements of people , and trade .
3 But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all .
4 As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs .
5 ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun .
6 But , on the stroke of midnight , Prince Charming turned back into a rat . ’
7 This grew out of a Loan Exhibition ( accompanied by lectures ) of scientific apparatus for the 1862 Exhibition at South Kensington , which turned out to be a pale shadow of the Great Exhibition of 1851- the death of Prince Albert adding to the gloom .
8 shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that !
9 He half walked , half ran on without a word .
10 Set the temperature to a degree or two higher than that of the maintenance tank and place the female in this set up for a time to associate herself with the layout and hiding places .
11 In their haste to dispose of the money some of it was burned and some ended up in a sewer .
12 The FT-SE 100 woke up with a bang to finish 20.3 points ahead at a record 2847.8 , after an earlier 1.9 point downturn .
13 According to government claims , over 250 LTTE rebels were killed between Aug. 22 and Aug. 26 , including over 100 shot down from a helicopter as they cycled to reinforce LTTE positions near Kopay .
14 A little Fulham girl who he said was quite promising came in with a friend or two to dance with her .
15 The park is pretty dialled in with a food shop , skate shop , and the midi ramp .
16 She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap .
17 There were several injuries and all healed up after a while .
18 Maria Teresa : When her mother died , Black Irene gave out such a blood-curdling scream in the middle of the night that we all woke up with a jump .
19 The eventual removal and reconstruction of this house at Sant Fagans between 1955 and 1957 came about as a gift from the Birmingham Corporation to the Welsh Folk Museum .
20 Friday evening was spent mastering rhythm-changes on the piano and weaving cheerfully around the furniture in an Edinburgh tenement , and on Saturday and Sunday we all camped out in a School Dance Studio for movement sessions .
21 Unbelievably , it all dried out without a bubble , and was duly admired by our visitors the following day .
22 All fired up for a marathon effort
23 More than 3,000 turned out for a rally organised by 2 hoteliers who say they just had to do something .
24 All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell .
25 Why get all worked up about a crag that is unclimable for most of the time ?
26 It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year .
27 But before Molly could answer they all looked out as a car breasted the top of the small hill and lit them as brightly as actors on a stage .
28 Some are coming from as far afield as Germany , so today , despite abysmal flying conditions , they all went up for a rehearsal .
29 Then we all went out for a drink .
30 We were joined there by George and Marion and we all went off to a skiing resort called Gargellen .
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