Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith sank down into a chair the moment the outer door had closed behind him and discovered that she was trembling . |
| 2 | He came in for a chat the other day and said , oh how you getting on ? |
| 3 | Labov reports ( personal communication ) that in his early work he once played back to a woman a tape-recording of her own casual speech to prove to her that her image of her accent was inaccurate . |
| 4 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
| 5 | As they drove back from a barbecue the bee stung Rod 's arm . |
| 6 | His income he augmented by writing pamphlets about railways , teaching an evening class in car maintenance — a subject he knew little about but which he mugged up from a handbook the night before — and , if things got bad , painting houses . |
| 7 | Haymakers scythed steadily in a meadow a half-mile away , while much further off , far beyond the blur of fields and woods , dust whitened the sky . |
| 8 | Coleworthy was a knowledgeable woodsman and knew exactly to a foot the value of all standing timber , every small spruce seedling on his land . |
| 9 | Well that , that boat from Evesham that we went out on a couple a years ago it had a fish finder on it . |
| 10 | United 's problems started in the first half when Brentford went ahead with a freak a fluke goal from Gary Blissett … that knocked the stuffing out of them … |
| 11 | Leonora went round in a dream the following week . |
| 12 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 13 | Yellow Wolf slipped away during a snowstorm the following morning , after Joseph had told him , ‘ You better go find your mother and my daughter . |
| 14 | The similarly-configured Beech Bonanza suffers from an irritating snaking wiggling Dutch roll at higher speeds , but this flying V-sign ran straight as an arrow an as smooth as silk . |
| 15 | She was different , after all , he decided , in her hat , and with the grained leather gloves neatly folded , and Gaily had n't for a moment the wit to see this , prepared self as the false one and her accidental self , in an older coat and head-scarf , of Saturday night , the true one . |
| 16 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 17 | Speculation about clashes among Time Warner 's top management spread quickly after an announcement the day after Mr Ross ' death that the board was being reconstituted and reduced from 21 members to 15 . |