Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 2 | It has long been established that a defendant may be required to discover documents under his control but situated abroad ; in the early cases , the fact that relevant documents were in Calcutta or in Tobago led merely to an extension in the time allowed for their production . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly ‘ John David ’ succeeded where ‘ Walter ’ failed in considering an aspect of mental handicap in a balanced fashion . |
| 4 | She likes them , she thinks their work is interesting , she longs to do Story Time and read aloud to an audience of adoring tots . |
| 5 | A total of 98 competitors weighed in from an entry of 126 even though the venue rose five feet above normal . |
| 6 | It covered all land and air forces , but not paramilitary forces , on which the treaty framework provided only for an exchange of views to take place . |
| 7 | This edge of the park is planted with large pine-trees , whose trunks and branches are red-ochre , the foliage green gloomed over by an admixture of black . |
| 8 | I remember Status Quo 's ‘ Down Down ’ , though , and was disappointed that Cud drew back from an attempt at reproducing Quo 's perfect repetition . |
| 9 | Intensive diplomatic negotiations between UN and Iraqi officials in New York on July 24 and 25 led finally to an announcement on July 26 confirming that the government had agreed to a compromise proposal by the UN , involving the appointment of a new team of " impartial " inspectors . |
| 10 | The blade came down at an angle on my first finger , but chopped straight through the rest . |
| 11 | These verses ( from chapter 2 ) I received personally as an encouragement to ‘ Arise ’ and look for a new way of following Christ and preaching the gospel . |
| 12 | One of the young probationers from Bluebird was on the ward , and came in with an injection for him , to help him to go to sleep . |
| 13 | Three arrests have been made in relation to the first incident when a policeman was shot and injured shortly before an explosion at the gasworks . |
| 14 | Not given to making the headlines , it has recently attracted attention with the launch of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known to the Renaissance on a computerised database , with Getty support , and an old debate stirred up by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which criticised London University 's custodianship of the library and called for its return to Hamburg . |
| 15 | He rightly felt that in the age of nuclear weapons any future war in Europe would be an act of suicide and so from 1956 he appealed repeatedly for an improvement in East-West relations and for super-power disengagement in the continent 's central heartland . |
| 16 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 17 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 18 | But then , with Matilda concentrating fiercely , one end of it slowly lifted up about an inch off the table-top . |
| 19 | Its child protection procedures have information about what to do if a child is worried about HIV , and how to make an appropriate referral if HIV/AIDS came up as an issue for child who has been sexually abused . |
| 20 | John was keen to help in a practical way and it was he who came up with an idea for marking John 's year in captivity . |
| 21 | Belgian pig breeders , who suffered severely from an epidemic of swine fever last year , are concerned that the illness might spread . |
| 22 | He came back with an exchange of letters , in which Eisenhower had agreed that Britain could buy Skybolt ; and , in return , Macmillan had accepted an American request for base facilities for US nuclear submarines at Holy Loch on the west coast of Scotland . |
| 23 | United came back with an equaliser with fifteen minutes to go . |
| 24 | They looked good for all three points but County came back with an equaliser from Phil Turner … |
| 25 | Wilkinson came back with an offer of £660,000 — and was cock-a-hoop yesterday when a tribunal in Walsall ordered Leeds to pay £694,000 . |
| 26 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ When I was that age , I slunk about in an agony of embarrassment in case anybody looked at me . ’ |
| 28 | They did n't loosen and begin converging around the dead buffalo cow until the first flock of ragged black vultures flopped clumsily onto an outcrop of rock on the grassland fifty yards away . |
| 29 | The ‘ analogue ’ organs which followed came closer to an imitation of true organ sound by using valves , but these displayed increasing unreliability . |
| 30 | A cherry-and-green stuffed bird turned slowly to an icicle of dust . |