Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FT-SE 100 woke up with a bang to finish 20.3 points ahead at a record 2847.8 , after an earlier 1.9 point downturn . |
| 2 | According to government claims , over 250 LTTE rebels were killed between Aug. 22 and Aug. 26 , including over 100 shot down from a helicopter as they cycled to reinforce LTTE positions near Kopay . |
| 3 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 4 | The eventual removal and reconstruction of this house at Sant Fagans between 1955 and 1957 came about as a gift from the Birmingham Corporation to the Welsh Folk Museum . |
| 5 | More than 3,000 turned out for a rally organised by 2 hoteliers who say they just had to do something . |
| 6 | By 1971 , BNB was using a mixture of DC 15 , 16 and 17 grafted on to a DC 14 base and modified according to BNB 's own scheme . |
| 7 | Men and women who are now in their forties and fifties grew up in a society that had been first shocked , then revolutionized by the ‘ revelations ’ of American sex researcher Alfred Kinsey . |
| 8 | The progress made since 1970 came about through a number of technical advances . |
| 9 | The single-engine Cessna 172 took off from a beach on Stewart Island , on the southern coast , and headed out to sea with Mr Maurice Treweek clinging to the tail . |
| 10 | The two ended up in a night of drunken sex in separate beds in one of the city 's most infamous housing schemes . |