Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferranti 's senior management was extremely unhappy about the arrangements , but at that stage took the view that they amounted merely to a credit risk rather than a fraud . |
| 2 | The Newfoundland cod population has crashed before , in the 1970s , but recovered somewhat under a quota system during the 1980s . |
| 3 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 4 | A group of directors and employees got together for a discussion group and the resulting lively debate was recorded on a video currently doing the rounds of BNFL sites . |
| 5 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 6 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |
| 7 | Bishop and priests left , and Clonmacnoise became a ruin , used only as a burial ground for those who held the site forever sacred . |
| 8 | McPherson rose brilliantly to a McLaren free-kick to head the ball beyond Martin . |
| 9 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
| 10 | Chris Curran headed home from a Gary Himsworth free kick to seal a 2–2 draw for Scarborough . |
| 11 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman referred also to a knife amnesty . |
| 13 | In 1826 the Hall , Lowthorpe 's ancient manor , was demolished and later replaced by Lowthorpe Lodge which the St Quintin family used mainly as a shooting lodge , swelling the population of the small village greatly every summer with their visiting shooting parties . |
| 14 | He would captain with a frown of thunder , the worry lines etched deep as a rift valleys , his arms locked defiantly across his chest . |
| 15 | one solution … is to use subjectivity rather than try to push it aside … and [ so ] it might well be included in analyses and used consciously as a research tool . |
| 16 | Kitchens Of Distinction are currently seated in Katz 's famous delicatessen in New York and , before them , taped proudly to a napkin dispenser , is an understated , handwritten sign that says : FOR YOUR INFORMATION , YOU ARE SITTING AT THE WHEN HARRY MET SALLY TABLE . |
| 17 | He then staggered uphill to a courting couple and pleaded : ‘ Help me , I think they have murdered my girlfriend and burned her alive . ’ |
| 18 | To try out the 238 Syncaset I recorded a track using a drum machine on tracks 1–2 , rhythm guitar doubled onto tracks 3 and 4 ( then mixed and bounced onto track 8 , then bounced again through a compressor/noise gate back onto track 3 ) , bass guitar onto track 4 , harmony lead guitars onto tracks 5 and 6 ( again bounced onto track 8 and mixed back to track five with delay ) , lead vocal on track 6 , first vocal harmony detuned using the pitch control on track 7 and second harmony in normal pitch on track 8 . |
| 19 | This is an earthenware plate commemorating Christmas 1943 at the Luftwaffe unit known as Fliegerhorst Vannes — found recently in a junk shop in France . |
| 20 | Looking round for Blackberry , he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool , where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit . |
| 21 | The ingenuity of it was that it operated exactly like a Jacquard loom , which is a loom for weaving tapestries without human control no matter how intricate or varied the design . |
| 22 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 23 | When it 's necessary to build deeper than suitable for full block courses , the difference can be made up with bricks , laid normally for a 75mm depth , and on edge to give a 110mm course . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure I would , ’ he said , and she felt almost overcome by a tide of relief because it was all right , at last he understood … and then he took his two hands away from hers on the table , and his smile and his entire attitude dropped away like a paper mask . |
| 25 | One of Sam 's daughters knocked at the front door until a key landed at her feet , dropped painfully from a bedroom window . |
| 26 | Disclosure of damage to the nests of a colony of little terns came yesterday during a VIP visit to the former defence research site led by Minister for the Environment , David Maclean . |
| 27 | AN ESSEX motorist turned his car into a fireball when he lit a cigarette as he drove home with a gallon can of petrol on the seat beside him . |
| 28 | Because when we came home , we came home on a Friday night , I say , and oh , the traffic ! |
| 29 | When we came home for a mid-day dinner , the washing lines in the back garden would be hung with sheets , towels , our clothes , hankies and so on . |
| 30 | Just to think of what he would say if he came home from a Council meeting and found an American soldier sitting in his parlour made Carrie 's stomach shrivel . |