Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she followed the instructions and applied for a job interview she was told : ‘ Sorry , we are only recruiting staff from Ireland . ’ |
| 2 | I took my TV to be repaired and the shop asked for a £35 deposit which I paid . |
| 3 | When we stopped for a picnic lunch we were pestered by a cheeky jackdaw which squabbled with seagulls for its share in the scraps of our sandwiches . |
| 4 | At an IOWME ( International Organisation of Women and Mathematics Education ) discussion group in 1986 ( see Isaacson , Rogers and Dekker , 1986 ) , Gila Hanna reported on a gender analysis she and Erika Kuendiger had carried out on data from the Second International Mathematics Study ( SIMS ) . |
| 5 | The General shouted at an infantry lieutenant who was sheltering in an alley from the desultory Prussian fire . |
| 6 | Miller 's third and decisive goal came from a McAlonen free-kick which found Simon White in position to score . |
| 7 | On Thursday 2 May , I opened with a slide show which took the Cabinet through all the changes and complexities of the subject . |
| 8 | Soon they turned down a side road which led to Drumbreck House where Sir Ewen McLay lived . |
| 9 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 10 | The following afternoon they returned with a spiritualist medium who told me because of my grieving and the fact that I was in an emotional void , the earthbound entity had attempted to take me over . |
| 11 | Other such incidents were reported on Feb. 29 at Pecinje in central Albania , where a youth and a policeman died , on Feb. 25 in Pogradec ( south-east of Tirana ) , where two people suffocated in a looting crowd which also attacked shops and a textile factory , and in early March at Louchnje . |
| 12 | commissioned a new cereal plant and embarked on a capital project which will double output of breakfast cereals in France . |
| 13 | In July 1815 Hodgskin embarked on a walking tour which took him first to Paris and later to Germany , where he made a detailed study of the political and economic institutions of Hanover . |
| 14 | On 19 September Ho embarked on a packet boat which took four weeks to reach Hanoi . |
| 15 | The site belonged to a timber merchant who had consistently refused to put in adequate sanitation and drainage , finding it cheaper to pay the fines imposed instead . |
| 16 | The dissenters who met in these new places of worship belonged to a Puritan tradition which disapproved of the decoration of churches , and the interiors of meeting-houses were thus kept bare and plain . |
| 17 | But I think that 's the only thing were , if I worked in a benefit office I would n't get on very well , because if I saw something I 'd try and move heaven and earth to make everything to go right for me . |
| 18 | One argument with Frank , who soon grew ‘ very fond ’ of his unfathomable young brother , led to a childhood crisis whose significance Coleridge was still struggling to understand far into adult life . |
| 19 | This led to a field study which at least seemed to locate not only the site but the probable outlines of the building . |
| 20 | New industries and housebuilding in the south and east of the country led to a growth rate which rivalled that of the mid-Victorian era , and apart from a minor dip in the statistics in 1937 — 8 the sustained restructuring and recovery of the economy created many new jobs and reduced rates of unemployment in all but the most depressed areas dependent on the declining staple industries . |
| 21 | He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro : £52.10 . |
| 22 | If we ever got to a siege economy he , Jim , dreaded the effect on our democracy . |
| 23 | Or another where the leader chanted , As I went through a chinese town I met a chinese lady . |
| 24 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 25 | For the first period he took as a starting point his previously arrived figure of forty seven thousand five hundred pounds and as an end point a figure of fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds ninety six pence , derived from Mrs . |
| 26 | As she looked for a hiding place she could hear the voices increasing in volume . |
| 27 | I had intended to go on and become a teacher , but when Dad died of a heart attack I was needed to help run the family art gallery . ’ |
| 28 | Wycliffe felt like a crossword addict who has some of the clues , a few of the answers but no grid on which to relate them . |
| 29 | Or whether he just looked like a Cadogan employee who fancied his employer 's wife . |
| 30 | His head looked like a fudge sundae I swear to God , he could have put a spoon in his ear and a maraschino cherry on his crown and looked no worse . |