Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 2 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 3 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 4 | No one else scored very many but no one needed to , and there were still six wickets and fourteen overs in hand when King finished things off with a six . |
| 5 | BBC bosses ordered prostitutes out of a posh hotel — so they could film actresses playing hookers . |
| 6 | But it put premiums up by a third — and that cut losses from £88 million to £39 million in the six months to June . |
| 7 | He scattered drops about from a blue cap he carried , while the dogs sent flurries of water everywhere . |
| 8 | Nigel always felt he won hands down in a verbal fight . |
| 9 | As well as Hitchcock and Flynn , Mark Gill weighed in with two and Tim McCann rounded things off with a glorious strike minutes from the end . |
| 10 | The plunge in aluminium prices in January was contained by forecasts of a tight supply situation which pushed prices up to a 15-month high of $2,227.50 a tonne in September . |
| 11 | She sewed buttons on to a white shirt she 'd made . |