Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
2 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
3 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
4 | I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London . |
5 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |
6 | It was painted while and there was an untidy hedge in front of it , divided by a rickety gate which led on to a short path to the front door . |
7 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
8 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
9 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
10 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
11 | Here , as with the vernacular , the Council for the sake of strengthening the ‘ active participation ’ which it correctly laid down as a vital principle of liturgy , overthrew a deformation which had become customary in the Middle Ages and against which the Reformation had vigorously protested . |
12 | The qualifying 20s. was no arbitrary figure but the maximum ( 16s. + 4s. for livery ) laid down for a common servant in husbandry by the wage-regulation act of 1515 . |
13 | There is an accepted tariff of damages for personal injuries laid down on a case-to-case basis by judges . |
14 | Even quite senior figures in the system just went through the motions of working and fulfilling the crazy plan laid down from a great height without taking local conditions into account . |
15 | For it is the hydrogen bonding ability of the existing chain that determines the sequence of bases laid down in a growing chain of genetic material . |
16 | Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example . |
17 | Then the heavy cloud began to break up and the pearly rays of the morning sun beamed down on a spume-streaked sea that glistened in shades of emerald and jade . |
18 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
19 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
20 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
21 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
22 | The wooden stairs led down into a narrow corridor illuminated by a single naked bulb dangling at the end of a piece of frayed flex . |
23 | There was a trap-door in the centre of the kitchen floor , which led down to a deep cellar . |
24 | Outside them , by an open area and a covered section , a small flight of steps led down to a low outbuilding which faced the open area . |
25 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
26 | ‘ I always felt as if you rode in on a white charger and saved me from my loneliness . |
27 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
28 | The end of power-sharing had left a vacuum , which the constitutional convention had failed to fill , and Ulster staggered on with a vicious IRA campaign , tit-for-tat assassinations , unconvincing direct rule , and no obvious sense of direction . |
29 | Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre . |
30 | Hendrie moved on to a perfect Payton pass , went round goalkeeper Keith Welsh with ease , and shot into the empty net . |