Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not overtaking again ? ’ he protested , as she drew out beyond a cattle lorry . |
| 2 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 3 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked in to a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 4 | While Lisabeth was mainlining Cadbury 's Bournville I rummaged around for a sports bag ( one that advertised Marlboro fags , naturally ) and began to pack a spare everything . |
| 5 | A telex is only a message sent electronically along a communications cable and translated into type on a piece of paper at the receiving end . |
| 6 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
| 7 | Field Marshal Montgomery wrote breezily in a services journal : ‘ If we are attacked , we use nuclear weapons in our defence . |
| 8 | When they travelled together in a police car they had driven around in silence . |
| 9 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |
| 10 | He was arrested on 25 November 1991 and held overnight in a police cell in Urosevac . |