Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |
| 2 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 3 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 4 | A few too many drinks , and Lee Marvin was often ready to come out fighting , as director Sam Peckinpah found out during a party to celebrate the finish of filming on a TV special , The Losers . |
| 5 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |
| 6 | Wing Nigel Walker celebrated his call-up to the Wales squad by collecting four tries , including one from a spectacular 70-metre sprint , while Simon Hill weighed in with a hat-trick . |
| 7 | As Rafiq disappeared out of sight at the top of the stairs , Maisie staggered in with a step-ladder and started to put up black drapes at the windows . |
| 8 | Rex moved in for a cuddle . |
| 9 | Manville flopped down in a chair without being asked . |
| 10 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 11 | He stood by the cab with the door held open , and Lucy climbed out in a daze . |
| 12 | But the Redworth Hall hotel , near Heighington stepped in with a surprise Valentines Day treat . |
| 13 | On the last day of the Centenary Test of 1980 , Arlott signed off as a commentator in a much more formal setting . |
| 14 | George Moore 's depiction of Jesus as having survived the Crucifixion followed on from a contention maintained not only by some of the oldest heresies , but also by the Koran , and thus widely accepted throughout Islam and the Islamic world . |
| 15 | Tendulkar and Richard Blakey hit back with a stand of 176 in 24 overs , but then Neil Fairbrother swooped to run out the Indian ace with a direct hit . |
| 16 | Manville shrank back behind a display rack for a moment as his eyes moved towards the store window . |
| 17 | Now in his eightieth year , Thesiger looked back on a life travelling in the Sudan , Arabia , Afghanistan , Morocco , East Africa and ‘ Eth … |
| 18 | FOLLOWING THE FIRST day of The Subject Was Roses rehearsals , Dustin went over to a girlfriend 's apartment for dinner brimming with enthusiasm and confidence . |
| 19 | When Paula was shown into her office Arlene looked up from a sheaf of photographs which were spread on her desk with just a hint of impatience . |
| 20 | Carnforth grew up as a railway town from 1857 . |
| 21 | Then Gary Gregory leaned over to a pal viewing the programme with him and said : ‘ Can you keep a secret ? |
| 22 | But today , for some reason , Bella gave up without a fight . |
| 23 | She was just imagining Meredith dressed up as a sailor and herself with her arms round his neck , clinging to him as the wind tried to tear them apart , when a man with a tray hung from his neck asked her to buy bootlaces . |
| 24 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |
| 25 | Travis sat up with a shrug . |
| 26 | Tammuz sat down in a chair opposite her and picked up a pen to fiddle with . |
| 27 | Ten days later , at eight-thirty in the morning of Wednesday , 22nd January , Robyn Penrose set off in a snowstorm and an ill humour to begin her stint as the University of Rummidge Faculty of Arts Industry Year Shadow , or URFAIYS as she was designated in memoranda emanating from the Vice-Chancellor 's Office . |
| 28 | But Dzagnidze then followed his own kick for a try in the corner , and Mironov swept through for a try that Dzagnidze converted . |
| 29 | Meredith sat down with a thump . |
| 30 | Visitors Cholmondeley held out for a draw on 130 for seven . |