Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 2 | I had some notes jotted down on a card somewhere , but I quickly went off them and chatted about whatever seemed interesting . |
| 3 | This is not wanted to there has to be a circuit arrangement which does not respond to a short pulse from the batting l.e.d. but acts only if this l.e.d. remains on for a longer period , that is , when the batsman has correctly intercepted the ball . |
| 4 | This conception arises out of a ‘ distinct but recurring type of historical situation in which a fundamental challenge is directed at established institutions and in which the supporters of those institutions employ conservative ideology in their defense ’ . |
| 5 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 6 | " To bed , " she said decisively , " I 'll have some tea sent up in a little while . " |
| 7 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 8 | The practice of using the passage of years since the birth of Christ as a numbering system had its genesis in some work carried out by a monk , Dionysius Exiguus , in AD525 . |
| 9 | This work arose out of a project in which a sample survey program was written specifically for use by developing countries . |
| 10 | Another can shot out with a clunk . |
| 11 | The Batband choose this moment to strike up with a counter attraction , and our Jeremy has a hard job making himself heard . |
| 12 | Well there was one sad part was n't it that when I was on my in training during the and the rockets and so in classrooms and had a lecturer talking to us and erm this lad come in with a message from the teleprint and erm give it to the instructor , and he 'd call a name and the chap would go out . |
| 13 | Another tentacle shot out like a whip and coiled around his throat , choking him . |
| 14 | This article arises out of a research project on the ‘ Identification of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties : Participant perspectives ’ , funded by the Economic and Social Research Council , Research Grant No . |
| 15 | I recently bought a Series IIA ex-military Land Rover with the intention of completely rebuilding it over the next few years ending up with a vehicle that will last for years to come . |
| 16 | This point leads on to a further problem in sampling — which is non-response . |
| 17 | Adrian become–the over-protective parent to his miserable father and although we can understand how this behaviour comes about in a child whose parents are asserting their own needs , who are themselves needy children , it nevertheless feels funny , feels inappropriate . |
| 18 | After a two-hour meeting , the Lib Dem leader , Jim Wallace , said his party had given the organisation another chance to come up with a new way forward . |
| 19 | This suggests that ri2 originated from the transposition of ri1 , but that this event dates back to a time before P.wickerhamii and S.obliquus diverged . |
| 20 | Right , I think you should get all this stuff written up into a file , a help file . |
| 21 | It is verbal irony when some character comes out with a statement or a choice of words which have a meaning to those in the know , either within the text or outside it , that is significantly different or even contradictory to that which the character may be supposed to have in mind . |
| 22 | In the process of overtaking a lorry , a woman crashed into another lorry reversing out of a side turning . |
| 23 | Some people work up for a lifetime to cross the Channel and then get published in a magazine . |
| 24 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 25 | The backyards of the houses in this road faced on to a canal . |
| 26 | Some Obligation bounced back from a season in the doldrums with a five-length win at Hereford last month and is capable of following up . |
| 27 | This man went out with a pouch and gathered up owl-pellets , which he labelled , and later , took apart with forceps , bathed in glass beakers of various cleansing fluids , ordering and rearranging the orts and fragments of the owl 's compressed package of bone , tooth and fur , in order to reconstitute the dead shrew or slow-worm which had run , died , and made its way through owl-gut . |
| 28 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
| 29 | This project grew out of a previous ESRC funded study , ‘ Participation in Higher Education ’ ( HR 6846 ) and will build upon the findings of that study . |
| 30 | This situation carried on for a few weeks , she would try to talk but always just ended up leaving some food on the step . |