Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his way out of the city he came to a poor crofter 's cottage . |
| 2 | It 's quite interesting that er two members of the Conservative party have referred to these very high rates of inflation er that happened under a Labour government er because they , the , the reason they occurred primarily , if you remember is because in nineteen seventy two oil , oil was three dollars a barrel . |
| 3 | ( It is interesting that Piaget failed to recognise what Vygotsky ( 1933 , tr. 1976 ) observed about a young child 's play : that it is rule-bound . ) |
| 4 | It was taking all the pleasure out of things and Maggie 's lips drooped like a disappointed girl 's . |
| 5 | Sales in 1992 increased to IR£76.3 million , despite a generally hostile economic environment At constant exchange rates , sales increased by 9 per cent which benefited from a full year 's contribution from the new Marquis brand . |
| 6 | But at 50°s ; F , it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut , and much below that temperature , digestion ceases , Koi fed on a warm winter 's day will then have to pass a cold winter night , when a gutful of even low-protein pellets can turn into a pathogenic sludge causing liver and kidney failure . |
| 7 | These three ladies , now in their seventies , lived in a Georgian doll 's house in Lulling 's High Street . |
| 8 | The man 's hair was long and stringy and his eyes blazed like a charismatic actor 's . |
| 9 | A YOUTH of 15 who broke into a young mother 's house in the middle of the night and subjected her to a two-hour rape ordeal while her children slept was yesterday given a life sentence . |
| 10 | The Vung Tau Cargo , snagged in a Vietnamese fisherman 's nets , looks like being a repeat of the astonishing success of the Nanking Cargo — 150,000 pieces of mid-18th-century porcelain plus 126 gold bars — salvaged by an ex-Barnardo 's boy , Michael Hatcher , and auctioned in 1986 . |
| 11 | After scooping the majority of prizes at the event the 24-man-troupe found themselves being booked for other carnivals which led to a whole summer 's bookings in 1990 . |
| 12 | And the two men would shake their heads over the inconsistent , bloody-minded civilians who swarmed through a general practitioner 's surgery , deliberately misleading qualified men about the nature of their fatal diseases . |
| 13 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
| 14 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 15 | On his right , as usual , sat Miles Lessingham , the Operations Superintendent , whose reflection , staring back into the room , looked like a hydrocephalic death 's head . |
| 16 | Okay , so they got the base line measurement , thirty five percent people use them , then they went to a variable ratio er token economy system . |
| 17 | The first victim to give evidence against him , a 26-year-old secretary , was raped after being served spiked champagne at his surgery before they went to a mutual friend 's home for dinner . |
| 18 | His first victim , a 26-year-old secretary , was raped after being served spiked champagne at his surgery before they went to a mutual friend 's home for dinner in February 1991 . |
| 19 | The inquest had been adjourned in August after the hospital insisted on a independent pathologist 's report but Ian Gilmour , QC , for the Cardiothoracic Centre NHS Trust , said that the post mortem findings were not being challenged . |
| 20 | In January 214 ( 31% ) of them voted for a private member 's bill based on it ( which has little chance of becoming law ) . |
| 21 | He was so fed up that he put another penny to the one earned for a whole day 's labour and went to the pub where he drowned his sorrows in a pint . |
| 22 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 23 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 24 | one Friday , having done my weekend cleaning and baked a batch of bread during the day , I hoped for a good night 's rest , but I scarcely had retired before my labour began . |
| 25 | I have just bought a SWB Series III TC fitted with a high compression V8 from a P6 car and 255/85 — 16 tyres . |
| 26 | Now half a crown in those days was a lot of money , you had to a full day 's work for half a crown , make no mistake on that . |