Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This spilled over to a fall in the reservation prices .
2 And this came about through a sequence of catastrophes , movements of people , and trade .
3 But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all .
4 ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun .
5 This grew out of a Loan Exhibition ( accompanied by lectures ) of scientific apparatus for the 1862 Exhibition at South Kensington , which turned out to be a pale shadow of the Great Exhibition of 1851- the death of Prince Albert adding to the gloom .
6 shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that !
7 He half walked , half ran on without a word .
8 Set the temperature to a degree or two higher than that of the maintenance tank and place the female in this set up for a time to associate herself with the layout and hiding places .
9 In their haste to dispose of the money some of it was burned and some ended up in a sewer .
10 There were several injuries and all healed up after a while .
11 Maria Teresa : When her mother died , Black Irene gave out such a blood-curdling scream in the middle of the night that we all woke up with a jump .
12 Friday evening was spent mastering rhythm-changes on the piano and weaving cheerfully around the furniture in an Edinburgh tenement , and on Saturday and Sunday we all camped out in a School Dance Studio for movement sessions .
13 Unbelievably , it all dried out without a bubble , and was duly admired by our visitors the following day .
14 All fired up for a marathon effort
15 All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell .
16 Why get all worked up about a crag that is unclimable for most of the time ?
17 It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year .
18 But before Molly could answer they all looked out as a car breasted the top of the small hill and lit them as brightly as actors on a stage .
19 Some are coming from as far afield as Germany , so today , despite abysmal flying conditions , they all went up for a rehearsal .
20 Then we all went out for a drink .
21 We were joined there by George and Marion and we all went off to a skiing resort called Gargellen .
22 Then they all went off for a visit to the zoo
23 I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’
24 Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers ; SunSoft president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life — McNealy shot back that the ‘ SM ’ stood for ‘ Stop Microsoft . ’
25 Sun Microsystems Inc CEO Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers .
26 Flat-top Ekos did abound at the bottom of the market , but they all ended up with a Dulux psychedelic front and a magnetic pickup across the soundhole .
27 That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard .
28 They all sat around in a circle agreeing what a swine Henry was .
29 In the middle of digging they all sat down for a mug of tea .
30 Then they all sat down in a fashion so orderly that the files they formed were almost identical and equidistant .
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