Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith sank down into a chair the moment the outer door had closed behind him and discovered that she was trembling . |
| 2 | He came in for a chat the other day and said , oh how you getting on ? |
| 3 | Labov reports ( personal communication ) that in his early work he once played back to a woman a tape-recording of her own casual speech to prove to her that her image of her accent was inaccurate . |
| 4 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
| 5 | As they drove back from a barbecue the bee stung Rod 's arm . |
| 6 | His income he augmented by writing pamphlets about railways , teaching an evening class in car maintenance — a subject he knew little about but which he mugged up from a handbook the night before — and , if things got bad , painting houses . |
| 7 | Well that , that boat from Evesham that we went out on a couple a years ago it had a fish finder on it . |
| 8 | Leonora went round in a dream the following week . |
| 9 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |