Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 2 | Harry , who only joined as a boarder a week ago , began his day opening cards and presents . |
| 3 | He thus became in a sense a monarch , though one whose powers were strictly limited and often jealously scrutinized by the provincial estates . |
| 4 | Rose 's mouth dropped open and she just managed to a catch a string of saliva on the back of her wrist before anybody noticed . |
| 5 | Any possibility of this , he concluded , was ruled out by the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 which finally brought to an end the provisions of the Navigation Acts , ( already repealed in other respects in 1849 ) that all seamen on coasting vessels , and three-quarters of crews on ships in foreign trade , were to be British . |
| 6 | The defendant , Ballay and another employee of the shop , named Rai , were arrested and later tried on an indictment the fourth and fifth counts in which charged all three with theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 in respect of the two transactions . |
| 7 | A splendid Arctic picture with snowy mountains , icebergs and so on had as a centre-piece a small hole in the ice with a board saying , ‘ Danger ’ . |