Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 2 | MURDERED traveller Elizabeth Over lived for adventure and a challenge . |
| 3 | She stopped for breath and a laugh and I said , ‘ Nell , if Bill Baudelaire asks you if I 'm here , just say yes , do n't say where . ’ |
| 4 | John Lilley 's Portal estate , at Tarporley , Chester , crashed into receivership and a plethora golf courses are springing up through farmland diversification projects . |
| 5 | CHILDREN fled in terror when a gala fireworks display went horribly wrong in Larne on Friday night . |
| 6 | The clerk ignored him but now and then shouted in Arabic and a customer came forward to collect a form or a tattered bundle of money . |
| 7 | It smelled of wood and a sort of quite pleasant mustiness . |
| 8 | And when the rain threatened to overflow our collective high water mark , we adjourned for coffee and a chat about Neil Kinnock . |
| 9 | the air tasselled with heat and a viaduct |
| 10 | If Laura dropped in conversation that a piece of furniture had been in the family for generations , who was to argue ? |
| 11 | After lengthy instruction and considerable scepticism on the part of his friends as Max veered from piety and a longing for the monastic life to drug-taking and debauchery , he found a priest in Montparnasse willing to baptize him . |
| 12 | Mr Reid said the matter came to light after a pupil informed a teacher that he had been offered drugs by the suspended boy . |
| 13 | These came to light when a couple brought the album in for valuation without knowing the artist 's identity . |
| 14 | The case , coinciding with the treatment of the subject of serial killings in a number of recent films , came to light when a man told Milwaukee police on July 22 that he had been threatened by Dahmer but then escaped from his apartment , where police later found numerous dismembered bodies . |
| 15 | Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them . |
| 16 | The various elements combined until it seemed to Ace that a choir was whispering to her . |
| 17 | Pursu 'd by Famine and a Father 's Rage … |
| 18 | The landlord of this slate-roofed building cooked them mutton chops which proved inedible , and Johnson 's supper , later traced in Boswell 's notes , consisted of bread and a lemon . |
| 19 | All round the assembly of brothers waiting and watching with held breath , the great shudder and sigh passed like a gust of wind , or the surging of a wave up the shore , and then , like the shattering of the wave in spray , disintegrated into a whispering , stirring murmur as they shifted , nudged one another , shook with relief and a suggestion of hysterical emotion between laughter and tears . |
| 20 | Serve one trout and 100g ( 4oz ) new potatoes to each person , garnished with parsley and a quarter lemon . |
| 21 | Thomas Linehan of the IDA stated in court that a fencing contractor had been warned by pickets at the dump , one carrying a sign reading ‘ We want justice not asbestos ’ , not to go on the site or there would be trouble . |
| 22 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 23 | Wounded men were groaning quietly , and a crippled grypesh bubbled with pain until a sailor finished it off . |
| 24 | ( In their 1988 survey , Mintel noted that ‘ the proportion of consumer expenditure represented by alcohol consumption has fallen steadily , whilst at the same time that spent on leisure as a whole has increased ’ ( Hunt , p42 ) . ) |
| 25 | Veronica Sive 's interest in photography began at university when a friend suggested she ‘ look carefully through the lens ’ . |
| 26 | When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert . |
| 27 | I shut him up in my cellar with all he needed for painting and a bottle of cognac , and my maid , who was a very pretty girl , served as his model . |
| 28 | Other debates and ideologies , originating both from state apparatuses and from capital , talked of affluence and a consumer spending boom , and more education was seen as part of the route to yet greater affluence . |
| 29 | SUPERMAN Derek Kaye leapt into action when a trailer loaded with a car ran over his godson — and lifted it clear with ONE hand . |
| 30 | It was Marcus Judge who had created the Brotherhood and selected likely candidates for it , and it was Marcus Judge who decided upon punishment when a man 's work was unsatisfactory , when he was guilty of negligence , dishonesty or — worst crime of all — treachery . |