Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 . |
| 2 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
| 3 | His eyelids fluttered for a second and stayed shut until they reached the ground floor . |
| 4 | A SCHOOLBOY escaped severe injury last night when he plunged through a skylight and crashed on to a bed . |
| 5 | She swam about a bit and felt comfortable . |
| 6 | I stopped for a second and tried to think what my conclusive proof was . |
| 7 | She stopped for a minute and looked out at the fields . |
| 8 | He stopped for a moment and gazed about him . |
| 9 | She stopped for a moment and took a deep breath before checking the next crate . |
| 10 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 11 | He stopped for a moment and looked around for Zach . |
| 12 | At the door he stopped for a moment and looked back , but then he turned and went out without another word . |
| 13 | She stopped for a moment and eyed Sophie thoughtfully . |
| 14 | How dare you patronize me , how dare you flaunt yourself at me when you know — ’ he stopped for a moment and shook his head . |
| 15 | She stopped for a breath and took a step nearer her mother . |
| 16 | Sandra trained as a dancer and worked as a theatre set painter and then a trapeze artist . |
| 17 | Born in Stockton , she trained as a teacher and worked in schools throughout Cleveland and North Yorkshire , including North Ormesby Girls ' School , Ripon Training College , Grangetown Girls ' School , Widdale ( near Hawes ) and Wath , where she became headmistress until her retirement in 1946 . |
| 18 | He then trained as a parachutist and volunteered as guide for this ill-fated raid . |
| 19 | I trained as a physicist and spent many years in laser research , first in Canada and then at the NPL in Teddington . |
| 20 | He originally trained as a plumber and used to give classes to inmates in his local jail before taking up prison work full-time . |
| 21 | He originally trained as a plumber and used to give classes to inmates in his local jail before taking up prison work full-time . |
| 22 | Our close friend Bobby Radiasa , whom we trained as a soundman and took around the islands on our last expedition , was amongst the first intrepid handful of Bali 's surfers . |
| 23 | Secondly we assumed that , elastically , the material behaved as a continuum and obeyed Hooke 's law . |
| 24 | She moved towards a seat and regarded the girl steadily for a long moment . |
| 25 | And then he stopped behind a bush and beckoned me over , and there was an antelope standing ahead , which I shot . |
| 26 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 27 | She stared into its surface , which exercised a deep downward draw , as when one peered into a well and felt one 's thoughts involuntarily plummet . |
| 28 | One rider crashed into a tree and died . |
| 29 | Ranetta Sen , 13 , was running along a corridor to her next class when she crashed into a wall and fell to the floor . |
| 30 | He crashed into a table and landed heavily on the floor and had to be helped to his feet by friends . |