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

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1 DRAYTON Asia Trust yesterday joined in a war of words with EFM Dragon , the Edinburgh-managed investment trust which targeted it for takeover a fortnight ago .
2 No , he sa , he did , the , happen occasionally went to a neighbour and asked to them to borrow one , he 's not started again
3 It has sometimes been suggested that if you feel easily intimidated by an interviewer , and therefore are paralysed by nerves , you should imagine him ? her in a ludicrous situation , such as sitting in the Albert Hall with no clothes on .
4 But rule also depended on a degree of common purpose between kings and at least a proportion of the secular magnates .
5 Marrakesh really arrived as a marathon on January 13 when Osmiro de Souza Silva of Brazil , ran alone from 29K to a 2:09:55 ( $12,000 cash ) victory over a respectable field .
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