Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 2 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 3 | Detective Sergeant Cedric Jones said Mr Banks hanged himself from a hifi speaker bracket on his bedroom wall . |
| 4 | I folded myself into a police car , dragging Susan after me . |
| 5 | She initially mistook him for a police officer as he was wearing a police-style anorak , white shirt and black tie . |
| 6 | The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve . |
| 7 | they took him to a police station where they miraculously found 15g of cannabis . |
| 8 | He reminded her of a clothes peg-selling or paper-flower-hawking gipsy , who would raid the henhouse or seduce the maids or steal the washing from the line or all three together . |
| 9 | After another series of battles with the employment exchange , the Royal National Institute for the Blind and various principals of local technical colleges , I eventually got myself onto a TOPS typing course at a college in south-west London . |