Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 2 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 3 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 4 | ) A tunnel of netting stretched over semi-circular hoops narrowed down to a small catching area . |
| 5 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 6 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 7 | She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds . |
| 8 | Over the past year , many a fund manager has had his confidence shattered as supposedly reliable shares that were the solid core of his portfolio — IBM , Merck , Kellogg , Philip Morris — crashed out of a clear blue sky . |
| 9 | It was but a village , and four small sailing boats , sails drooping and oars plying , moved out from a tiny wooden jetty as we moved in . |
| 10 | ‘ He was a young man , and I am sure that his message got through to a great many people . |
| 11 | For example , I pass through a sequence of states identical to one passed through by a native Chinese speaker in being presented with a question in Chinese and giving the answer in Chinese . |
| 12 | We sailed on into a warm enveloping darkness . |
| 13 | He trudged on down a wide muddy road , past the weird triangular shapes of sod-built huts , glimpsing through the smoky windows the red light of a fire , and outside the pools of yellowish water with the bits of sky that had fallen into them , and bog trunks lying half rotten . |
| 14 | The archaeology proposal came in with a standard white , upper-class male name attached to it , a safe BBC voice , and I said , ‘ Lovely idea , ca n't stand the presenter . |
| 15 | Lillywhite , from Walton-on-Thames , started the day with just 20 seconds to spare over Norway 's Ole Simensen , who jumped from ninth to second place when he came in with a four-strong leading group in Liverpool City Centre . |
| 16 | When we started rehearsing , we arrived at the cello 's first entry and he came in with a dreadful slow grumbling noise . |
| 17 | A fourth squeaked through on a single disputed vote . |
| 18 | His extraordinary conceit and capacity for intrigue spilled over into a genuine mental instability and in 1869 he was removed from Rome to a lunatic asylum in a convent at Passy , a suburb of Paris . |
| 19 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 20 | ‘ Barns to the right , grooms ’ quarters to the left , Alejandro 's straight ahead , ’ said Luke as he drove up to a large ugly mulberry-red house with flowerbeds full of clashing red tulips , primulas and wallflowers , and a water tower completely submerged in variegated ivy . |
| 21 | A minute or two later he drove up in a battered English saloon car with a bumper and two door handles missing . |
| 22 | Eventually Newsome came up with a super 50–50 pass back which resulted in the second goal . |
| 23 | Miss Selfridge in Church Street came up with a Western casual outfit comprising leather ranchero jeans and waistcoat , worn with a denim type shirt and white body , and a sparkly short chemise in dark green sequins . |
| 24 | They took their various allocated strains of Staphylococcus aureus or whatever , applied standard methods , and came up with a particular teichoic acid or teichoic acid-like polymer . |
| 25 | He came back with a strong cardboard box and helped Mum to pack everything in it . |
| 26 | There was some problem that one of them went back and talked to , presumably dad , perhaps mum though , erm and came back with a lovely engineered solution , but that did n't matter — they had fun doing it and they had fun trying these things and , believe me , the answer were ever so close to what the design I was amazed with what they produced . |
| 27 | Johnson , stripped of his 100m Olympic gold medal in 1988 as well as world indoor and outdoor world records , came back from a two-year steroid suspension in 1991. — Reuter . |
| 28 | Jasper stood looking at the bell rope which came out of a small square aperture at what was the base of the campanile . |
| 29 | The word came out like a helpless little bleat as Belinda followed him out of the room . |
| 30 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |