Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if you put it that way … ’ the porter said with a nervous chuckle . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall be with His Grace anon , ’ the prince replied on a small note of displeasure , before again turning to Joan . |
| 3 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 4 | These intermediate times show very clearly that all modes apart from the cycle had periods of fast or slow movement , whereas the bike continued at a consistent pace . |
| 5 | The award came as a big surprise for Sam but an even bigger surprise for the Joe Borrows Agency who already had the Bradford-based singer booked at the Great Ayton Social Club on the night of the awards show . |
| 6 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 7 | After we 'd finished with it , the heart lay on a stained bed of newspaper for the rest of the day , reduced to an unpromising dinner . |
| 8 | As the afternoon drew to a close , Mildred crept downstairs and out into the darkening yard . |
| 9 | The motorspeeder came to a sudden halt . |
| 10 | In this case the money came from a single , wealthy shipowner who attended his chapel . |
| 11 | The prosecution claims the money came from an armed robbery by four masked men at a sub post office in Berkshire . |
| 12 | Again the try came from a concerted attack involving forwards and backs , Guscott and Brendan Mullin barely managing to squeeze the last two passes away . |
| 13 | Last week , the case came to a sudden end . |
| 14 | Deposits would be returned to the payee unless the case went to a full hearing and the party which had paid the deposit lost and had an order for costs made against them , in which case the deposit would be forfeit as part of the costs payable . |
| 15 | It had been discovered that the atom consisted of a small , positively charged nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons . |
| 16 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll just bet it is , kid , ’ the clerk said with a fake smile . |
| 18 | When the rooftop vanished behind a yellow bluff of gorse , you followed your nose . |
| 19 | In the continuing civil war a series of incidents reported on April 10 coincided with the presence of a delegation of Buddhist monks in the northern Tamil-held town of Jaffna , and effectively underlined the lack of prospects for a Buddhist government-backed " peace initiative " ( which the LTTE rejected after a further round of talks on April 24 ) . |
| 20 | He was then escorted to the dais , where the Chairman launched into a brief introduction . |
| 21 | The election coincided with a precipitous slide in the popularity of a Conservative government struggling with a severe balance of payments deficit . |
| 22 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
| 23 | Leaving the car , Gerry Matthews and I walked up a steep hill , past an eerie standing stone , and eventually reached a mound at the hilltop ringed by a deep moat . |
| 24 | The decision came as a huge relief to Microsoft which has placed great emphasis on its Windows software programme , the latest version of which was released only last week . |
| 25 | The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they de dropped or roughly handled during transport . |
| 26 | The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they be dropped or roughly handled during transport . |
| 27 | The Glory shuddered to a sudden halt on the grassy slope in front of the Monument and they were thrown forward against their seat-belts . |
| 28 | The projectile vanished in a wild cloud of feathers . |
| 29 | The impetus for the following review of the literature arose from a detailed study of 15 published reports of empirical research in the field of ‘ environmental scanning ’ . |
| 30 | " The gramophone belonged to a Hungarian count , " he said . |