Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
| 2 | She listened for Patrick 's cry but the only noise was from the Kenny children as they squabbled over a piece of bread , and Maggie was sitting on the bed with the baby sucking in vain at her scrawny breast . |
| 3 | At one point , laughing , they fired off a couple of rounds , ricocheting the bullets against a wall . |
| 4 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 5 | They opened up a market of huge potential for English manufacturers in the New World . |
| 6 | They opened up a lead of more than two minutes by Huddersfield , but were caught with just under 30 miles left . |
| 7 | SEXY Joe Cain and Michelle Cleaver were n't hiding too much in London 's Hyde Park yesterday as they showed off a range of new sexy outfits . |
| 8 | He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal . |
| 9 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 10 | The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans , except the Germans , whose courage they admired . |
| 11 | They , they brought in a heap of people to disassemble these rockets and inspectors as er examined every , every part of the rockets . |
| 12 | Then they brought in a couple of supporting interrogators and gave me the third degree . |
| 13 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 14 | The ten London United cars on the Mitcham route were displaced by an extension of route 30 to West Croydon late in 1933 and being shedded at Sutton , they took over a number of workings on the Sutton route , but not all . |
| 15 | They took along a box of wine they bought between them , and were drinking the red vin de table from plastic half-pint glasses . |
| 16 | They went down a flight of steps on the river walk . |
| 17 | The doctors around my bed were , of course , in leisure-wear ; they gave off a fuzz of suntanned self-possession , together with the unanimity that comes from safety in numbers . |
| 18 | THE return of both Des Haynes and Angus Fraser had the desired effect on Middlesex 's fortunes during the early weeks of the season as they ran up a sequence of one-day wins . |
| 19 | POLICE discovered used syringes in the bedroom of an Alton man as they carried out a search of his home . |
| 20 | As they left the store they picked up a copy of Allied 's 1991/1992 brochure and found the carpet was normally priced at £9.99 . |