Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So to enter 11-Sep ( into a cell already formatted to display a date in this way which A7 in our example is ) you have to type in : @DATE(92,9,11) |
| 2 | A crisis then unfolded involving a challenge to the leadership of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 3 | A band outside began to play the " Marseillaise " and iced champagne was served for the guests to toast the emperor and the New Year . |
| 4 | After watching the film , one eighteen year old in Pennsylvania was killed and a friend critically injured repeating the stunt . |
| 5 | A policeman then had to bring the traffic in all three lanes to a standstill while the motorist and his passenger crossed to safety . |
| 6 | A TEENAGER yesterday denied breaking a curfew order and claimed he watched Inspector Morse instead . |
| 7 | A call yesterday involved giving the chatty female at the other end one 's address . |
| 8 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 9 | People seeing ‘ Carry On ’ films found it all as natural as those who a generation earlier had greeted the squeal of bobby soxers for Frank Sinatra or , before that earlier the sight of Al Jolson in blackface . |
| 10 | The Romanov family were marched into the basement of a house then turned to face a dozen executioners jostling in the doorway for room to shoot . |