Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It twisted into an origami boat and sailed off towards a sewer inlet . |
| 2 | He drove to a Customs depot where it was sealed by Spanish Customs officers . |
| 3 | A woman in her thirties has been found dead at her home after a man walked into a police station and said he wanted to talk to detectives . |
| 4 | Even after the £383m the bank got from selling a 14.9% stake in itself to the Hongkong Bank and the £1.1 billion it raised from a rights issue and the sale of its Scottish and Irish banks , Midland still struggles to keep its third-world debt provisions up to the level of its rivals . |
| 5 | He collapsed in a police cell and died later in hospital . |
| 6 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |