Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | only threw light on a de-iced porthole . |
| 2 | The tall hedge to her left suddenly gave way to a low brick wall , and she found herself driving past the Red House . |
| 3 | There would have been no defence ( just as in Reg. v. Lawrence ) if the charge had been laid under section 15(1) and , as in Reg. v. Lawrence and the present case , it was the Crown 's resort to section 1(1) which alone gave rise to a legal problem . |
| 4 | He was able to checkmate the French evolutionists ' efforts to use the duck-billed platypus as a link between reptiles and mammals because he alone had access to a good supply of specimens . |
| 5 | I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze . |
| 6 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 7 | Ahead of its personal digital assistant announcement today , Amstrad Plc yesterday announced appointment of a second non-executive director , fulfilling Alan Sugar 's promise to appoint at least two : the new man is Michael Beckett , former chairman of Ultramar Plc , and former managing director of Consolidated Gold Fields Plc ; he is non-executive director of a number of companies ; Amstrad said a third non-executive director might also be named later . |
| 8 | He always found room for a long line of sweet peas ; it gave him immense pleasure to pick an armful of these , take them home , present them to Mum and fill the house with their glorious scent . |
| 9 | Hannah Hauxwell , left and the carving of poet Richard Watson Hannah unveils plaque to poet HANNAH Hauxwell , the famous daughter of the Dales yesterday paid tribute to a famous son of Middleton-in-Teesdale . |
| 10 | The task of recovering this piece from disaster fell to David Woodward who promptly rented time on a thicknessing sander owned in another workshop locally and sanded the original veneers off . |
| 11 | HEALTH watchdogs yesterday welcomed news of a vital body scanner soon to be installed at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 12 | This head once formed part of a small figurine carved from mammoth ivory . |
| 13 | ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years . |
| 14 | The sweet trolley arrived , and he was dismayed to see she still had appetite for a generous wedge of Black Forest Gâteau . |
| 15 | Mr Parkinson also announced approval for a new £200m air traffic control centre to be built by the Civil Aviation Authority by the early 1990s . |
| 16 | This business was expanded by his son John Roberts , who also lent money at a vast interest rate to the tinners , who were traditionally improvident and poor . |
| 17 | They also recommended drama as a powerful way of communicating appropriate messages . |
| 18 | The first passenger packet boats operated from Warrington to Manchester and later became part of a through route from Liverpool to Manchester via Runcorn . |
| 19 | Alf and Bessie lived in Cricklewood , and would receive visits from time to time from Bessie 's sister Minnie who , having worked alongside her father at Curry Rivel School for a while , later became headmistress of a similar but smaller establishment in Newton St Loe , Somerset . |
| 20 | The report also drew attention to a recent interview given by a Vice-President , Seyed Ataollah Mohajerani , to the Iranian news agency IRNA in which he had said " because the enemy has nuclear facilities , the Moslem states too should be equipped with the same capacity " . |
| 21 | They later opened fire with a sawn-off Kalashnikov rifle at a pursuing police car before abandoning their Sierra car in a field and disappearing into the countryside , Mr Nutting said . |
| 22 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 23 | Sumerian gem-cutters also took advantage to a limited degree of another way of exploiting the banded structure of onyx . |
| 24 | This was done most dramatically and ruthlessly in Latin America , e.g. in Mexico under Juarez in the 1860s or in Bolivia under the dictator Melgarejo ( 1866–71 ) , but it also took place on a large scale in Spain after the revolution of 1854 , in Italy after the unification of the country under the liberal institutions of Piedmont , and wherever else economic and legal liberalism triumphed . |
| 25 | It also sprayed urine in a desultory fashion , but never behaved like a full-blooded tom at any stage . |
| 26 | The era also gave birth to a whole array of new social problems . |
| 27 | Durkheim said that simple societies were held together by ‘ mechanical solidarity through likeness ’ : people were united by the similarity in the labour and the general social roles they performed , which also gave rise to a homogeneous conscience collective . |
| 28 | This report , which culminated in the 1967 Sexual Offences Act , also gave rise to a two-part ‘ Man Alive ’ feature called ‘ Consenting Adults ’ ( BBC ) , which dealt in separate weeks with men and women . |
| 29 | The proximity of such natural beauty to a thriving merchant city also gave rise to a native school of Bristol artists initially closely related to the Romantic poets . |
| 30 | Nor did it escape his attention that as well as its social role Heaven also gave access to a large group of demonstrably big spenders . |