Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 2 | THREE men were hurt yesterday when a keg of firework powder exploded in a special effects workshop at Pinewood Film Studios , Bucks . |
| 3 | A dissenting voice came from a Financial Times reporter who had recently visited the northern town of Kompong Thom , briefly captured by the Khmers Rouges in mid-June [ see p. 37533 ] . |
| 4 | There have been numerous clashes between land-owners and new-age travllers in the county — last October two farmers lost 10 sheep in several attacks by dogs which they say came from a nearby travellers encampment . |
| 5 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 6 | But his plea for a four-month stay on the sewage ban while this search was completed was dismissed by David Mazzone , the federal judge overseeing the clean-up project , and rejected by a federal appeals court . |
| 7 | But she turned up safe and well at dawn when she walked into a mobile police station just yards away . |
| 8 | On Nov. 4 hearings began in a federal appeals court in Honolulu on the constitutionality of a Guam territorial law of 1990 , permitting abortion only when a pregnancy threatened to kill the woman or " gravely impair " her health . |
| 9 | The 16-year-old had appeared in court on March 2 accused of murder , but escaped from a social services hostel last week . |
| 10 | Henry lived in a small mews flat , just off Fitzroy Square . |
| 11 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 12 | Lurgan cruised to a five wickets victory over CYM at Terenure . |
| 13 | ‘ We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole . |
| 14 | He yelled something as he ran/hobbled towards a parked sports car , but I just sat there hypnotized . |
| 15 | ICI reversed a 10p loss to close 6p better at 1,082p as fears eased of a massive rights issue to coincide with today 's results and expected demerger plans . |
| 16 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
| 17 | FUNDAMENTAL changes to production methods , involving team building and creating a multi-skilled workforce , resulted from a comprehensive skills training programme which is on-going at Courtaulds Films Polypropylene . |
| 18 | In order to facilitate a quick arrest under difficult circumstances — ‘ the crowd was jeering and becoming unpleasantly restive ’ — Robert Mark then confesses that he indulged in a little police brutality , by using his strictly non-regulation rubber truncheon to give the offender ‘ a hefty whack on the shin' which apparently broke his leg . |
| 19 | I went to a special sports school — not Leipzig , ’ she added hastily , to a nod from Erika who knew very well what Leipzig meant in the athletic world of the G.D.R. , the absolute , superlative top — ‘ but I was a second rater there . |
| 20 | They were met at the front door by a delirious spaniel , who clearly had no idea of funeral decorum , and they proceeded into the front room , where Bill Clough switched on a bulging orangey imitation-coal electric fire , and then went to a horrible drinks cabinet — all plastic and flashing lights . |
| 21 | Champion was a friend of two youngsters who died on a stolen police motorbike in July , sparking three nights of rioting in the Hartcliffe area . |
| 22 | One of the men in the room got to his feet and crossed to a well-stocked drinks cabinet , refilling his glass , offering the same service to his colleagues . |
| 23 | Tension between Zhelev and Dimitrov increased dramatically in October when details emerged of an alleged arms scandal involving a prime ministerial adviser , Konstantin Mishev , and the chief of the country 's intelligence services , Gen. Brigo Asparukhov . |
| 24 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 25 | We tarried awhile to watch Messrs Anderson and Rowe perform doughty deeds with caber and shot on a pleasant summers day . |