Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One participant has to describe a route traced out on the map so that both speaker and listener follow the identical route . |
| 2 | Helping women to stay at home yet giving them an occupation , some money and a branch held out towards the wider community were all worthy goals in Laura 's eyes . |
| 3 | With the collapse of communism , moreover , a split opened up among the Communists . |
| 4 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 5 | I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire . |
| 6 | A clerk came up to the counter . |
| 7 | Near the end of the second count a fight broke out at the Zuwaya goal because the teller , the secretary to the local Assembly and technically above suspicion , but also Maghrabi and therefore watched very carefully , claimed to have recorded 900 votes . |
| 8 | Shortly after their third visit a fight broke out in the street . |
| 9 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 10 | As part of a settlement worked out with the help of the US Environment Protection Agency , the two mills will pay $5.8 million in fines and spend more than $50 million on reducing the levels of dioxins and other toxic compounds they discharge into the Pacific Ocean . |
| 11 | A Perk struggled out of the lift ; another . |
| 12 | Ace opened the door just wide enough for the pair to enter , and slammed it shut just as a brick arced over from the darkened bushes . |
| 13 | My tranquillity was rudely interrupted as a wave crashed down on the rocks and sent a shower of spray over us as we huddled amongst the rocks on the headland . |
| 14 | A spring fell out of the engine . |
| 15 | It would not be possible to talk of error of law at all unless such elements did have a ‘ given ’ meaning because , says Gould , such language implies a departure from a criterion laid down by the courts . |
| 16 | He saluted a little man in tight trousers and a yachting cap , standing by a boat pulled up on the bank . |
| 17 | Just then he heard footsteps approaching and a figure loomed out of the fog in front of him . |
| 18 | A figure climbed on to the roof and came towards them . |
| 19 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 20 | A light went on in the house opposite . |
| 21 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 22 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 23 | Jim was also unbeaten in Scotland in all other events and as a result ended up as the official No 1 in Scotland . |
| 24 | On Nov. 25 a programme agreed on by the coalition partners was announced in the National Assembly . |
| 25 | A dipper flew up from the burn as I emerged from the hut , his white breast flashing as he darted downstream . |
| 26 | A priest ran out into the road and knelt beside a body which had shined the street red . |
| 27 | A riot broke out on the evening of Aug. 10-11 in the southern city of Shenzhen involving 50,000-60,000 would-be investors who were protesting against unfair distribution of share application forms , which had been sold out earlier than expected . |
| 28 | A soldier came out of the old jailhouse , rifle held lightly in one hand , barrel pointed down . |
| 29 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 30 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |