Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He clambered over and pulled off the covering so quickly her hair bushed out like a halo .
2 The case arose out of a letter sent by the Attorney General in the summer of 1988 to booksellers handling Spycatcher warning them they were in contempt of court , because an injunction had been obtained to stop publication of extracts of the book in several national newspapers .
3 Putting down her cup , she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed .
4 To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening .
5 Her eyes were on his mouth and , as though spellbound , she watched his lips forming the erotic words while heat suffused her body and her heart bounced about like a bumble-puppy .
6 Higher the Suzuki climbed , and higher , until the lane petered out into a dirt track and gradually the trees became fewer .
7 To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty .
8 The flame winked out with a suddenness that was almost as startling as its arrival .
9 Next , in ( 17 ) , we have a minimal property complex made up of a property extended by another property , P P , alternatively represented as in ( 18 ) .
10 We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ .
11 He also saw that if the parties did not approve of a rule laid down by a court — a ‘ certain rule ’ — they could choose to vary it by contract .
12 But the car lived on as a classic .
13 It was expected to cost around £800 million when launched , of which foreign aid made up about a half .
14 Preparing the campsite also involved some ingenious engineering , with a large pivoted chockstone winched up on a Friend belay to create enough headroom .
15 From anywhere else it 's a choice of hitting and hoping or laying-up near the opening Braid built in as an option .
16 That morning , when he was about a quarter of a mile from the school gate , a Volvo estate car drew out from a side-road and drove straight at him .
17 The few feminists who did consider the problem of women 's domestic labour came up with a collectivist solution similar to that of Beveridge .
18 The Australian trainer came on with a bucket of water to try to revive the apparently comatose Fulton .
19 The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly , and though she sat there for another hour , it was the last .
20 But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization .
21 A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age .
22 The soldier woke up with a snort ; his head jerked up and he looked at us inquiringly .
23 However , the Scots launched a spirited recovery in the second half against a very powerful side made up of former and future Wallaby internationals and , especially after David Sole came on as a replacement prop , they took complete control of the match , running in four excellent tries in an exciting 24–24 draw .
24 But , with a research department reduced by over a half and with the strategic use of a cash cow , the nylon business produced innovation after innovation .
25 And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes .
26 A dim light came on behind a blind in the Frankenstein mansion .
27 Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist .
28 Finally the helpful priest drove up to a point overlooking a fine old stone harbour , with a few houses on the quayside .
29 The car drove off with a scream of tyres , and Fran shivered in sudden reaction as she watched him go .
30 I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me .
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