Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 2 | She drew from an enormous hold-all an array of archaeological cakes and buns , and displayed them with pride . |
| 3 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 4 | The demure Lily in her straw hat , a hat I could describe to you now , still , as well as if I had it here in front of me , the crown swathed in a pale tulle the colour of a summer haze … in a long-sleeved , high-necked , pink-and-white striped blouse … a dark-blue hobble skirt , beside whom I walked across Regent 's Park in the spring of 1914 . |
| 5 | On 1 April 1959 he presided over a lavish ceremony the purpose of which was the inauguration of an extraordinary church , built , in Franco 's own words , " in memory of my victory over communism , which was trying to dominate Spain " . |
| 6 | In particular , it proposed the ending of detention without trial as soon as was politically possible , and it condemned as a serious mistake the establishment of a ‘ special category ’ for convicted prisoners claiming political motivation . |
| 7 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |
| 8 | For a moment I thought the heat from the bung-hole might incinerate my brows , but when I squinted beneath an outstretched palm the sight stole my breath . |
| 9 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 10 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 11 | The new apartment consisted of a single room the size of a small warehouse : wholewood desk and table , low-slung black leather chairs , filing cabinets , the playpen of the bed . |
| 12 | This transaction ‘ exposed the myth of the Fourth Estate ’ because it confirmed in a stark fashion the well established close connections between the press and politics . |
| 13 | TODAY has learned that on the following day , November 17 , the Pounds 160-a-week assistant boasted to a female colleague the Chancellor had been a customer the previous evening . |
| 14 | Justin 's pupil Tatian from Mesopotamia developed with a sarcastic pen the philosophers ' dependence on Moses , which he argued with elaborate synchronisms from ancient chroniclers proving the priority of Moses . |
| 15 | He escaped from a mental hospital a week ago . |
| 16 | My cousin Ibrahim lived in a two-storey house a few hundred metres away , just beyond the Tel Aviv–Jaffa port railway line . |
| 17 | In an effort to remedy matters , Harriet decided to seek assistance from a tin miner 's family who lived in a small cottage a mile or so inland . |
| 18 | Essays in Criticism was edited principally by F. W. Bateson , who announced in a preliminary circular the intention to tread midway between Scrutiny and The Review of English Studies . |
| 19 | The agenda of a National Security Council meeting as early as 10 March 1959 included as a main item the possibility of bringing ‘ another government to power in Cuba ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 384 ) . |
| 20 | For December 14th 1804 he writes : ‘ finished the three drawings for Mr. Knowlys — Mrs. Green delivered of a dead daughter the child full grown ’ , and on January 23rd 1808 he wrote tersely ‘ My wife was delivered about one in the day of a daughter . ’ |
| 21 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |
| 22 | The leading element in this upheaval was the student movement , and although students became independently active in political life all over the world — in Eastern Europe and in the Third World just as much as in the West — the principal expression of a distinctive radical doctrine and mode of political action , which became to a large extent a model for the whole international movement , was to be found in the US , in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) . |
| 23 | This overlapped to a considerable degree the Roman bath concept and adaptations had to be made in the Imperial Roman period . |
| 24 | She 'd get an even bigger kick if they led to an intimate tête à tête with the Dane . |
| 25 | He then laid on a wonderful cross a minute later for McCann to blast past Brendan Keeley . |
| 26 | The regionalist novel represented a kind of literary discovery of America , in that it revealed to an urban public the conditions of life in the remote , underdeveloped areas of the continent 's interior : the plains ; the jungle ; the Andes . |
| 27 | That lady successfully went into a glass-fronted lift the next week armed with instructions on relaxation , deep breathing , and an index card with positive self-statements in her pocket . |
| 28 | They went into a quiet period a few years ago it was very quiet erm but er yes they 're they 're going strong . |
| 29 | and er he went in an old car a model A Ford , there 's a model T Ford on that one |
| 30 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |