Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cooking pot hung on a tripod though the logs beneath were now blackened cinders . |
| 2 | But a cable fault knocked out the phone and fax at his home for two days delaying the arrival of the umpires ' report . |
| 3 | A SPEKE man set up a protection racket and demanded thousands of pounds from a building firm , it was alleged . |
| 4 | A computer error knocked out the system for the second time in a month . |
| 5 | A TAKEAWAY restaurant served up a meal of pickled cockroach , a court was told yesterday . |
| 6 | A PENSIONER bandit held up a bank with a sawn-off shotgun before escaping on a bicycle yesterday . |
| 7 | PUPILS at a Middlesbrough school handed over a cheque in memory of a former schoolmate yesterday . |
| 8 | A narrow stairway of glossy marble led straight into a sitting room arranged around a huge open fireplace . |
| 9 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 10 | A car dealer turned back the mileometer on a car and then put up a notice that the mileage " may not be correct " . |
| 11 | A KARAOKE singer pulled out a gun and shot two men because they laughed at him . |
| 12 | In 1977 a Council planner summed up the development of the argument from his point of view : — |
| 13 | The familiar Maxwell reach for a libel writ brought about an immediate public apology . |
| 14 | I hold my hands over the cooker like I was a boy scout crouched over a camp-fire . |
| 15 | Respect for product in the form of dramatic production became eroded and , regrettably , those who believed in the value of drama as a community enterprise gave up the struggle . |
| 16 | With a snarl Death reached out a bony finger and stopped the man 's heart , but he did n't take much pride in it . |
| 17 | A roller towel hung on the door . |
| 18 | On April 29th a security alert shut down the London Stock Exchange . |
| 19 | On Aug. 5 a Beijing court handed down a four-year sentence on Gao Shan , who worked at an institute for political restructuring under the Communist Party central committee , for revealing state secrets during the 1989 democracy movement . |
| 20 | In The Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co v Bennett ( 1913 ) 6 TC 327 , a UK company carried on a trade in the United Kingdom and overseas and income from investments overseas ( interest and dividends ) arose to the company . |
| 21 | A WARTIME shell blew off a man 's hand as he was cleaning it to make an umbrella stand . |
| 22 | Three hundred firemen and 400 policemen raced to the Hofburg after a smoke detector set off the alarm soon after midnight . |
| 23 | So acutely did some people feel menaced by the ‘ godless conspiracy ’ that in Brooklyn , when a sewer explosion blew out the manholes , they panicked and shouted ‘ The Russians ! ’ ; in Boston an antique exhibition barred Russian pieces from being exhibited ; in Bournemouth the conductor of the municipal symphony orchestra barred pieces by Shostakovitch from being played . |
| 24 | In 1766 a Cumberland man pointed out the difficulties of agriculture in the region — it was too wet to grow wheat — and estimated that a quarter of Cumberland was owned by thirty lords and gentlemen , and the remainder divided between 10,000 small landowners . |
| 25 | The split happened after a property company took over the White Hart and raised the rent from £20,000 to £37,000 a year . |
| 26 | She led him straight into an old-fashioned kitchen where a coal range gave out a dull red glow . |
| 27 | In a leather purse hung on the handle of the loft door were eight bright shillings . |
| 28 | FARM Minister John Gummer faces a Commons grilling after a food firm picked up the £2,600 bill to landscape his garden . |
| 29 | An attempt was made where possible to aspirate gastric juice using a Teflon catheter passed down the suction biopsy channel . |
| 30 | A ROBBER wearing a Santa hat held up a bank with a sawn-off shotgun before escaping on a bicycle yesterday . |