Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field . |
| 2 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
| 3 | In the context of the present case , however , it was not necessary to determine whether there were any conceivable circumstances in which Community law might affect rules in that sphere laid down by a member state . |
| 4 | Some of the borders are designed to be cut out and appliquéd on to a host fabric , while others are an integral part of a plain background material . |
| 5 | She limped into the air-conditioned hall of the hotel like an awkward seal plunging into a pool , and sank on to a leather sofa . |
| 6 | Several miles away in Queen Margaret Drive , a BBC technician knelt down beside a music stand and gently pulled a strip of card aside revealing some names and numbers . |
| 7 | The elder female sank down on a tree stump to rest , fanning herself with her hand . |
| 8 | He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady . |
| 9 | The Army moved in with a water cannon and tear gas , forcing the marchers into hasty retreat . |
| 10 | A hundred and fifty Bulmers workers from the distribution depot near the fire were evacuated to safety.And a roll call was taken to make sure no one else had been hurt.Meanwhile as fifty firefighters fought the flames , there was another explosion which hurled a sixty ton oil tank high into the air.It crashed down onto a fire engine : |
| 11 | We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table . |
| 12 | The goalkeeper was well beaten , but as the ball cannoned over for a goal kick and the chance went . |
| 13 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 14 | After the petrol station and the little houses , in one of which George Carter lived , were left behind , the street petered out into a country lane . |
| 15 | Higher the Suzuki climbed , and higher , until the lane petered out into a dirt track and gradually the trees became fewer . |
| 16 | To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty . |
| 17 | When they returned , the Burtons , who had been sharing the Simmons — Granger household , moved out to a minute bungalow which they rented from the James Masons . |
| 18 | Loud French pop music howled out of a cassette recorder and everybody danced with each other to a song which was in the charts at the time , . |
| 19 | He wanted to be picked up and wrung out like a floor cloth to get the stuff out of his system . |
| 20 | ‘ Apart from his match-winning goal against Oxford United , I was pleased with his overall contribution when he came on as a second-half substitute . |
| 21 | And Coppell may have to pair his £100,000 capture from non-League Sutton with another rookie , 18-year-old Grant Watts , who came on as a half-time substitute at QPR last Saturday . |
| 22 | However , the Scots launched a spirited recovery in the second half against a very powerful side made up of former and future Wallaby internationals and , especially after David Sole came on as a replacement prop , they took complete control of the match , running in four excellent tries in an exciting 24–24 draw . |
| 23 | Spotting the light of prospect , Christopher Barry applied to join the BBC , and came in as a Production Assistant in 1955 . |
| 24 | And Daniel came in on a hospital trolley disguised as a sleigh with scarlet blankets and silver-paper runners , drawn by hospital porters dressed as polar bears . |
| 25 | Newman came in with a faraway look . |
| 26 | The door opened , and the man came in with a woman doctor . |
| 27 | The noise alerted a woman who came in from a side door and challenged him quite sharply . |
| 28 | I flopped down onto a bean bag and took a sip of my tea . |
| 29 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 30 | Lucker with his booted feet on the bed , and walled in by a screening newspaper , makes no gesture of acknowledgement . |