Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These go on every day in a Home — they wo n't be planned beforehand or written up on a board , they are the little things of everyday life : |
| 2 | I can assure you that there is nothing sub-standard or left out of a home built machine . |
| 3 | If a man believes in a different god , or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god , blind faith can decree that he should die — on the cross , at the stake , skewered on a Crusader 's sword , shot in a Beirut street , or blown up in a bar in Belfast . |
| 4 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 5 | Although born out of a concern for the economic decline of Britain , such an emphasis provides a sad irony in the 1980s with massive youth unemployment . |
| 6 | Sir Bryan told the insurance industry yesterday that commissions should be related to the long-term maintenance of policies over their full lifetime , rather than paid out as a lump sum immediately a policy was sold . |
| 7 | The exposition is more easily understood if broken down into a number of stages . |
| 8 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 9 | ‘ For a man is formed and torn out of a man ’ . |
| 10 | He breathed the air deeply , hauling it into his broad chest as if this particular air on this exact spot could be stored up and carried around as a reserve and reminder : for minutes on end he stood there , resisting any move which would lift the spell , gazing into the hidden valley as if in there lay the treasure he wanted . |
| 11 | A report 's been commissioned by the National Rivers Authority and carried out by a group of local councils . |
| 12 | Mrs Thrigg plumped the coffee and home-made biscuits down on the low table beside the sofa in Mrs Baggley 's drawing-room and stumped out like a stage char . |
| 13 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 14 | He blustered and turned scarlet as if caught out in a crime , and tried to bluff it out , but I knew him too well . |
| 15 | Suddenly then though her attention was taken by a red squirrel which darted from nowhere and , effortlessly it seemed , bounced over the grass and then , as if jerked up on a string , shot up a tree . |
| 16 | So er a a micro electrode was er fabricated and then put inside a cell and connected up with an amplifier . |
| 17 | Last night started out with spilt acid and built up to a pellmell slide down stairs , across motorways , into a baby shop , on out-of-control roller-skates . |
| 18 | Her hair was dyed grey and drawn up in a bun , with two needles crossed through it . |
| 19 | Their progeny were all lovingly adopted and transformed along with a truckload of DB 's own tunes that smelt of sex and lies in Baton Rouge . |
| 20 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 21 | Ramos , the then Justice Minister , rejected the accusations against the authorities contained in the October 1989 report ( and borne out in a document published by the Landless Peasants Movement , Sem Terra , in September 1989 ) and proposed the declaration of a state of emergency in certain areas to crush this kind of violence . |
| 22 | After all , as he had said — and now every word of our conversation came back to me as clearly as if played back on a tape — a woman has a right to decide , on the basis of her own capacity to cope with the situation , whether she is justified in going on with it . |
| 23 | Mr Puri was wheeled out and trussed up on a chair near the shrine . |
| 24 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |
| 25 | He was mercilessly tortured , blindfolded and trussed up in a cupboard for four months , but he refused to break . |
| 26 | The 44-year-old director was born and brought up on a ranch in California , before attending military school and a spell in the Marines . |
| 27 | The Clifford family owned the estate for almost 200 years from 1469 , and there is a legend that Henry Clifford was sent into hiding by his mother to Londesborough and brought up as a shepherd . |
| 28 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 29 | Although from Canadian stock , I was born and brought up in a suburb of New York City . |
| 30 | ‘ Her mother was found abandoned as a baby , and brought up in an orphanage just outside Mestre ; her father was a British serviceman . |