Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ Winnie the War Winner ’ was made from two 109-sets , parts from the plantation manager 's receiver collected by Bill Baldwin , and bits and bobs laid out in a contraption of wires and valves around a room 10 feet square ( 3m² ; ) . |
| 2 | Rules laid down in a statute would be less flexible . |
| 3 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 4 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 5 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 6 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 7 | Now the words tumbled out in a rush . |
| 8 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |
| 9 | Generous lips drew back in a smile to reveal small , pearl-like teeth . |
| 10 | Mrs Doran 's lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 11 | He touched his torn face and his lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 12 | The rapid installation of a large number of systems around the country and , in some cases , overseas created a large number of novel problems and as these arose they were fed into the diagnostic expert system in their central facility and were available for consultation when other units phoned in with a problem . |
| 13 | His eyes clouded over for a moment , and his voice became gruff . |
| 14 | Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter . |
| 15 | The words came out on a sneer . |
| 16 | The words came out in a rush and she felt her face flame . |
| 17 | The words came out in a rush . |
| 18 | The words came out in a rush , and with an infuriating blur of tears she thrust her wine glass into Anneliese 's hand , spun on her heel and walked swiftly away . |
| 19 | Caroline could almost see her building up her courage , and then her words came out in a rush . |
| 20 | Gilbert forced himself to become calm , drew a deep breath and then the words came out in a torrent . |
| 21 | His words came out in a stammer . |
| 22 | The fierce note in Rose Hilaire 's voice got through to Dagmar Blond , who stopped talking at once , but the last phrase on her lips came out like a ghost : ‘ seeing yourself kill — ’ The last word of all disappeared . |
| 23 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 24 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 25 | nipples ripped off by a doberman on acid ? |
| 26 | Her lips curved up in a smile . |
| 27 | Suddenly the words rushed out in a jumble of grievance and anger . |
| 28 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 29 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 30 | Her words went in like a knife . |