Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] and [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 I did not wipe the offending word off the blackboard , but as I was packing up my books and papers at the end of the class , a girl got up and without a word erased it , to a scattering of applause .
2 In the Structure Plan and in all earlier discussion , land was seen as something which provides a location for industry , for the population employed in and as a consequence of that industry and for the services necessary for that population .
3 In due course the manager of the affected package responded favourably and as a result both DCs moved to the ‘ agreed ’ state .
4 In an instant the cripple lurched up and with a powerful twist of his crutch sent the end of the log into the water .
5 One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town .
6 A middle-aged woman with cropped grey hair was in the pool , apparently supervising the party , but even as Rachel watched in amazement the figure behind the chair stepped forward and with a shock she saw it was David .
7 This minor invention , which enables traffic to move smoothly and with a minimum of accidents , exploited a process need .
8 The amendment by an expatriate Scot , George Cunningham ( Labour , Islington ) , by ensuring that a 40 per cent vote of the electorate ( not simply of those voting ) would have to be achieved for a devolution bill to go through and for a repeal order not to be tabled , made devolution , at least for Wales , virtually an impossibility .
9 Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry .
10 The man whirled round and for a few seconds the landlord saw his face .
11 Aloofness , detachment , distancing , flippancy , all variations on a theme — a sustained effort to remain above and beyond a threatening world .
12 There was the case , for example , of a five-year-old boy who was taken to hospital vomiting violently and with a high temperature .
13 Eventually Wayne 's patience ran out and in a violent confrontation , Wayne finally threw the smaller Widmark against a wall .
14 With little suspicion and high self-confidence , the Rottweiler responds quietly and with a wait-and-see attitude to influences in his environment .
15 But the little bird flew on and into a tree on the edge of an orchard .
16 It is as if the dead person had killed themselves in order to get away and as a punishment .
17 So the whole family ate handsomely and with a great amount of hearty relish .
18 Moreover , he concludes , ‘ medical students ’ disease terminates readily and within a relatively short time ’ .
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