Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Thomas emphatically denied this to The People , stressing that he had resigned as a trustee two years ago . |
| 2 | In 1843 Smith 's elder brother died of consumption , a disease that had already carried off a sister some years earlier . |
| 3 | Susie had come from a village ten miles from the Oxfordshire market town in which the school was placed : her previous village primary school had had two teachers ; her experience in that school at a younger more protected age seemed to her less interesting and more childish . |
| 4 | The man was speaking two days after his 14-year-old daughter was attacked in a garden 100 yards from her home in Lanchester , Co Durham . |
| 5 | The British girl held out until being caught in a hold 30 seconds from the end . |
| 6 | Barricaded inside , Roger Jones , a 52 year old self-employed electrician , who 'd allegedly threatened with a shotgun 3 men who 'd called at his home . |
| 7 | The story was made into a film two years ago with James Caan and Kathy Bates . |
| 8 | Clare had accidentally metamorphosed into a baker ten months before , when David took some of her homebaked bread to friends who lived nearby : they asked if they could buy bread regularly from her . |
| 9 | The damage was done in a storm 6 weeks ago … |
| 10 | The South African , injured in a fall two weeks ago , has made a successful return to action , but still feels considerable pain in the lower part of his back where he has pulled a muscle . |
| 11 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 12 | The movie shot in a record 35 days scored big at the box-office and is out later this month from CIC Video . |
| 13 | According to Magnet Applications , the Berkhamsted-based Cookson subsidiary , the number of magnets used in cars has risen from a handful 20 years ago to about 80 now , rising to perhaps 200 in a couple of years ' time as automatic windows and sunroofs etc become more widespread . |
| 14 | Detlev Rohwedder , 58 , executive head of the Treuhand agency entrusted with the privatization of former East German state enterprises , was shot dead at his home in Düsseldorf on April 1 ; his wife was injured in the attack , made from a garden 60 metres away . |
| 15 | The small alpine town , with is medieval fortress and museum , is built on a rock 150 metres above a glittering lake of the same name . |
| 16 | This is a French seaweed — applied at a temperature seven degrees below normal body heat — which tones up thighs and tum by restricting the body 's normal blood flow . |
| 17 | This dock , to the east of the Albert Dock and connected by a passageway 19.8 metres wide at coping level measures 457 metres long by 198 metres wide with a jetty 305 metres long by 76 metres wide in the centre adjoining the east end . |
| 18 | The arena itself , some 287 by 180 feet , was encircled by a wall 15 feet high . |
| 19 | It has been used as a prison many times . |
| 20 | Wenlock Manor was a small Georgian country house , which had been sold as a hotel twenty years ago . |
| 21 | Occasionally , he would break the spell with a droll reminiscence , but for the most part he worked patiently and quietly , first on the symphony and then on the overture , where the work was even more quiet and concentrated , the string recitatives fashioned with a care most conductors would reserve only for the recitatives in the finale of Beethoven 's Ninth . |
| 22 | The first 10 procedures were performed in a median 166 minutes but with increasing experience and modification of the technique , there was a gradual reduction in procedure time to 51 minutes for the last 50 patients . |
| 23 | A lack-lustre school five minutes ' walk from home with no major roads to be crossed may be preferred to a showpiece two miles away . |
| 24 | Later this year , it will be towed to a location 130 miles north-east off Aberdeen where it will be anchored permanently as a floating oil storage unit for the new Alba oilfield under development by Chevron . |
| 25 | Having finished loading , Ram stopped to scratch the back of his head , which was rather itchy , and then his elbow , which had been bitten by a mosquito some days earlier but which still itched occasionally . |
| 26 | Residents first called for a ban four years ago , claiming that heavy vehicles were ruining their quality of life . |
| 27 | Its format , six friends locked into a reunion ten years after their graduation , and its analysis of contemporary concerns recall The Big Chill . |
| 28 | WHEN parts of Hampton Court were damaged in a fire two years ago , few could see the silver lining . |
| 29 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 30 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |