Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 2 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 3 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 4 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 5 | This trial was repeated in the life of one of her daughters , Mary , who gave birth to a son a week after being widowed in 1737 . |
| 6 | It was a I was gon na ask you you know , wh when you moved from shunter to foreman , you had responsibilities for a lot a lot besides the shunting . |
| 7 | Someone in Newton Aycliffe very nearly had need of a solicitor the other day , we 're informed . |
| 8 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |