Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 2 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 3 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 4 | IN SEPTEMBER , a group of 50 people met together for a week of prayer at Our Lady of Good Counsel , Leeds . |
| 5 | The decline of around 35 per cent in the number of births between 1964 and 1977 led rightly to a review of the provision of educational places . |
| 6 | Apollinaire and Hourcade added that this conceptual or intellectual approach led naturally to a selection of simple geometric forms . |
| 7 | With the funds available , Florey collaborated with Chain , whose work on lysozyme , already mentioned , led naturally to a study of a wider range of antibacterial agents . |
| 8 | Recollecting that she had no money with her , Clare asked only for a cup of tea ; but Len made her and Bridget sit down while he queued , and returned with a loaded tray . |
| 9 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 10 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 11 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 12 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 13 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 14 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 15 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |
| 16 | British portraiture from 1660 to 1960 charted brilliantly by a relay of scholars |
| 17 | They therefore need to gain insight into what language is and what it can do , insights which bilingual children intuitively possess ’ , and ‘ Whilst we recognise that they [ bilingual pupils ] need to gain access to standard forms of English — used widely as a vehicle for implementing the school curriculum , we recognise the value and importance of their own dialects and languages . |
| 18 | Her hips moved slowly to a beat in the music only she seemed to hear . |
| 19 | More orthodox Liberals moved rather towards a compromise between ‘ individualism ’ and ‘ collectivism ’ , as was evident in the practice of the post-1906 Liberal governments . |
| 20 | The additional diabatic cooling occurred predominantly through a decrease in solar absorption by ozone . |
| 21 | There had been no attempt to make these signatures credible ; the words ‘ for my Dear and especial Boy , with affectionate regards from Mr Arthur Bloxam ’ appeared across a faded nineteenth-century portrait ; but they also appeared scrawled lavishly across a portrait of an eighteen-year-old boxer torn from the sports pages of a recent newspaper . |
| 22 | Wilson presents these in a chapter devoted entirely to a discussion of the practices of each of the 12 laudesi companies . |
| 23 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 24 | Bush objected fiercely to a decision by the House of Representatives on Aug. 2 , 1989 , to halve the funding available for mobilizing the missiles on the rail network . |
| 25 | Three hundred feet the down rose vertically in a stretch of no more than six hundred — a precipitous wall , from the thin belt of trees at the foot to the ridge where the steep flattened out . |
| 26 | Throughout the year , small change was collected by the post desk , but in November , Nancy took the collection tin around the offices where staff contributed generously towards a total of £136 . |
| 27 | I followed his gesture over the buried walls , across the narrow roadway between the ploughed-out snow dunes to where the fell rose steeply in a sweep of broken white to join the leaden sky . |
| 28 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 29 | The original Company depot was built in Copse Road , and used largely as a store for surplus cars . |
| 30 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |