Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages . |
| 2 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 3 | A girl appeared from the next room . |
| 4 | Sobbing with breathlessness he ran on , and — Lord love it ! — a taxi appeared around the next corner , its yellow light announcing its availability . |
| 5 | He had just glanced at his wristwatch , to discover that Cunningham 's arrival still lay approximately two replays of Little Brown Jug in the future , when a woman slid onto the next bar-stool to his and said : ‘ Hello , Harry , ’ in a tone of husky confidence which suggested they had been lifelong friends . |
| 6 | He was also ready for office , and was delighted when an offer came in the first few weeks of the new Government . |
| 7 | Drawing upon their experiences they produced in their own country buildings which echoed those of Imperial Paris , as anyone familiar with the architecture of , say , Philadelphia and Washington , will readily admit ( in the autumn of 1978 the city of Philadelphia recognized its debt by staging , in its Museum of Art , an exhibition devoted to the Second Empire ) . |
| 8 | In his ‘ Thought for the day ’ , on Radio Scotland , on 29th April , our Minister told of his family 's ‘ drawer ’ , where cherished things were kept , such as ‘ old football programmes , an envelope postmarked on the first day of the Queen 's reign , the autograph of Sir William Smith , founder of the B.B. ’ He explained that such things , if given to us , could be sold to feed the world 's hungry people . |