Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But then , I have never in my life known a single headmaster of whom that might not be said . ’
2 Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then .
3 However , differential waveforms over the two hemispheres were recorded by Wood , Goff and Day ( 1971 ) only when their syllables required a linguistic analysis .
4 6 Walker certainly took her career as an artist seriously and made sure nothing in her life-style obstructed a total commitment .
5 At one end of the scale are those competent enthusiasts who could probably have qualified as professionals had their careers taken a different course .
6 Frankie groped around on the shelves until his fingers encountered a deep plate .
7 The old man 's fine grey hair had been brushed and plaited , his cheeks delicately rouged , his beard brushed out straight , his nails painted a brilliant pearl .
8 Well backed after catching the eye previously , he strolled home by 12 lengths , having his race won a long way out .
9 His spell capped a great day for the Aussies after captain Allan Border ( 110 ) and Mark Waugh ( 112 ) had steered them to 395 in their first innings .
10 Bukharin gave us the first fully algebraic exposition of accumulation in the Marxist tradition ; and as such his contribution marked a turning point in discussions of the reproduction schemas , since he was able to formulate general conditions of capitalist development .
11 Your , your mum cooked a big dinner , your mum cooked a dinner ?
12 The test that formed the stopping-point in our series involved a certain amount of chemical theory ( the effect of acids on carbonates , the peculiar effect of carbon dioxide on lime water ) .
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