Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gastroscopy showed a severe inflammation of the stomach and proximal duodenum . |
| 2 | A DRIVER sparked a major alert when he refused to stop for police because he thought patrol cars still used bells . |
| 3 | A shell scored a direct hit on a petrol tank , and he felt the wave of heat from fifty yards off . |
| 4 | Before I could reply a shell burst a short distance away sending a hail of shrapnel tearing through the branches of the trees above us . |
| 5 | As I approached Lovat and the two Officers , a shell burst a short distance away . |
| 6 | Only last week a gang boarded a British ship disguised as steerage passengers . |
| 7 | He worked undercover in Germany and Northern Ireland , but a lieutenant provided a devastating insight when he filed a final report on Carlton , 37 . |
| 8 | In Tel Aviv on Oct. 11 a Palestinian drove a stolen van into a group of soldiers waiting at a road junction , killing two and wounding 11 others . |
| 9 | The second question — relevant only if a majority preferred a new constitution — asked voters to approve certain ground rules for the Constituent Assembly : a limited term , the obligation to submit its draft to another referendum , a clear separation of powers between the assembly and the provisional government whose president it would select . |
| 10 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 11 | On another occasion , a cow made a mad dash from a herd being driven along Crane Bridge Road , managed to dive onto the slope leading to the old ford by the bridge , took off in the Harnham direction and swam almost a mile before the drovers caught up with her . |
| 12 | As we listened a cow rounded a rocky outcrop and came towards us . |
| 13 | ( Whereas a primary involved a formal ballot , a caucus consisted of local meetings at which a head count was made of those supporting each of the candidates and , therefore , tended to involve fewer but more committed participants . ) |
| 14 | Alec Guinness introduced him to the audience after the first night , although such was his nervousness that Sherek had to push him onto the stage and , when a photographer blew a flash bulb in his face just as he was about to speak , he muttered " Oh my God " . |
| 15 | The treaty between Robert II of Flanders and Henry I of England , renewed by their successors , stipulated that each knight supplied to the English king should bring three horses with him — this at a time when a horse represented a major investment . |
| 16 | A sage advised a northern Thane to load his donkey with gold ; the castle of Cawdor should be built where the animal stopped from fatigue — by a hawthorn-tree , as it happened : hence its preservation . |
| 17 | These views reflect what has since been recognized as a ‘ prevailing ideology ’ in ‘ the British literary-journalistic establishment ’ of the 1950s — — in which Snow 's influence as a reviewer played a considerable part . |
| 18 | The future of Denwood was their sole topic of conversation , and many a pioneer built a magnificent castle in the air . |
| 19 | Eye-witnesses said that a man dressed like a beggar boarded a Greek tourist bus in central Istanbul on April 9 , poured an inflammable liquid over the upper deck and set it alight . |
| 20 | In the spring of 1926 , Lewis 's own secret career as a poet took a great stride forward as he completed his long narrative poem Dymer . |
| 21 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 22 | What had been the cone of a volcano became a circular depression — we call it a caldera — some thirty square miles in area into which the sea poured . |
| 23 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 24 | In this context Mr. Beloff relied on the decision of the House of Lords in In re An Inquiry under the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 [ 1988 ] A.C. 660 where the question arose whether a journalist had a reasonable excuse under section 178 of the Financial Services Act 1986 to refuse to answer questions put to him by inspectors , having regard to the terms of section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 25 | In Clode v. Barnes ( 1974 D.C. ) one partner in selling a car applied a false trade description to it . |
| 26 | A constable brought a large-scale town map , which Bourne pinned to the match-boarding with which the walls were lined . |
| 27 | The woman who answered Bernadette 's ad for a childminder gave a false name , no proper address , was evasive about her phone number , and had no references . |
| 28 | Even if a child took a whole bottle full of remedies it would not be harmed ! |
| 29 | If , for example , a child suffered a severe burn , what , if anything , would you put on it ? |
| 30 | A WOMAN and a child had a narrow escape yesterday when their car left the road . |