Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 2 | McLeish told Francesca to hang on while he got this down as a note , and stared at the result . |
| 3 | Like this is my opening routine , I got this out of a book actually , you come , okay ? |
| 4 | I drew this up as a sketch showing , in essence , a section of the city . |
| 5 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |
| 6 | At this point I decided to go for broke so I wound in the other corn rod and changed this over to a boilie . |
| 7 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 8 | Six months later , in September , I followed this up with a circular to health authorities requiring them to put their services out to tender . |
| 9 | Leslie Orgel ( Salk ) recalled that only two weeks after Watson and Crick 's first paper appeared , the entire biochemistry department at Oxford travelled to Cambridge to view the structure and followed this up with a telegram : CONGRATULATIONS ! ( signed ) GENE . |
| 10 | Suddenly he shoved this aside with a groan , snatched up a clean sheet of paper , he wrote : |
| 11 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 12 | ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed . |
| 13 | Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively . |
| 14 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 15 | And though the surprise early closing of the bar peeved more than one punter ( and certainly one reviewer ) , the blasting semi-hardcore rendition of ‘ Bad Motorcycle ’ sent all home with a smile of their lips . |
| 16 | However , after several years of poor livestock production , a record 24,500,000 head were reported in 1989 ; the government attributed this partly to a contract and leasing system introduced in 1988 [ see also p. 36704 ] , by which rural workers contracted to supply specified products for wages , with their collective or the state farm supplying cattle , implements , machinery and land . |
| 17 | ‘ I picked this up from a travel agent in Marlow yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 18 | We picked these up on a visit we made to the island of Haiti a few years ago , and they 've become part of our Christmas celebrations ever since . ’ |