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

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1 A coroner has recorded verdicts of accidental death on a family of three killed when their car crashed head on into a tanker .
2 The pensioner , from Leeds , died when his maroon FSO car crashed head on with a van on the A64 Malton bypass in North Yorkshire .
3 Further mishandling by CI let Moorehead in for a try to put Banbridge out of sight .
4 Cornelius helped Tuppe on to a stool and found one for himself .
5 They ate meat out of a silver basket . ’
6 Four minutes later Bozinoski , taking the creative role of Dozzell who had a thigh strain , played Guentchev in for a shot which Ironside blocked .
7 I was tied into a sleeping bag and hung upside down from a tree overnight .
8 He was so proud of his domain that he often followed visitors around with a duster and once , in the library , snatched a cigar from out of Winston Churchill 's mouth .
9 Pride of dad who cheered Linford on with a ditty
10 Matthew had reached the woods and he slowed Bess down to a walk and bent down and caressed her neck .
11 A COW plummeted 10ft on to a car bonnet yesterday after leaping a guard rail while escaping from an auction .
12 They kept Orrell out with a lot of judgement and a bit of luck .
13 She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk .
14 Modigliani often asked Lunia to accompany him when he took Utrillo out for a walk .
15 These two words brought Elinor out in a kind of rash of solicitude .
16 Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum .
17 This was her diagnosis after she had pulled his foot this way and that , in a manner that brought Seb out in a sweat and had him groaning in anguish .
18 Later that night the Duchess took Wyatt on to a dinner party at top nightspot Annabel 's , where the two refused to be separated .
19 Woolley sent Finlayson off with a truck to lead the driver to Callaghan .
20 Lady Mary Deverill , now clear of the pack and alongside her husband , reined Capers back into a half-rear , blew her daughter an extravagant kiss , raised her hand in the air , and was gone forever .
21 Twelve to fourteen you did that , and I took papers out for a newsagent called on erm .
22 Park 's Martin Smith and Philip James put on 65 and a partnership of 36 between David Smith and Gareth Evans kept Park in with a chance before time ran out .
23 On free weekends he drove to Chastlecombe on a Saturday afternoon , took Leonora out for a meal somewhere , stayed the night at the Kings Arms in the town , and spent most of Sunday with Leonora before driving home to face his Monday morning clinic next day .
24 February 4 , 1984 was the date when then Town boss Bobby Ferguson sent Dozzell on as a substitute for the injured Eric Gates in a home First Division game with Coventry City at Portman Road .
25 A party of environmental students — on a North Sea cruise from Norway to the UK — took time out during a stopover in Lerwick to visit Sullom Voe .
26 Victorine put Léonie on to a chair , the bread on to a board , the knife to the crust .
27 An incisive early break by Champion gave the Police an attacking scrum from which a well-worked set move put Evans over for a try , converted by Wills .
28 Jill pointed , laughing , at the door , and Jim playfully ushered Lindsey out as a pencil sailed past his ear .
29 We had trees down in a storm .
30 ‘ I dragged Dee out of a cave in the Cheddar Gorge and bought her lunch — what more could she want , ’ Derek jokes .
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