Example sentences of "[vb past] and the [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rose and the apron made a tissue-paper sound , ‘ And we have to bear in mind , Miss Thorne , that for many people a hospital of this kind is not the answer . |
| 2 | As the storm receded and the thunder became a distant grumbling , Cullam 's shoulders dropped and he lifted sullen eyes . |
| 3 | When I was about eight years old , the Beatles thing happened and the guitar took a place in the panorama of western culture that attracted me . |
| 4 | Before long the disruptions began and the meeting became a scene of struggle and abuse . |
| 5 | Craigmillar beckoned and the prince created a relaxed atmosphere as he discussed the development of projects designed to improve housing , social and employment opportunities . |
| 6 | It worked and the club returned a small profit . |
| 7 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 8 | When you first performed Too Much Love Will Kill You at Freddie 's tribute concert at Wembley , you played it solo and there was a point where you paused and the audience went a little wild . |
| 9 | He paused and the meeting observed a thirty-second silence in honour of Richard Fairley who had left the partnership a year previously for considerably more than a handful of silver , taking with him Regina Securities ' main reason for being interested in paying Yeo Davis 's bills . |