Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | So this was how a submarine came back from a successful patrol ! |
| 3 | A beech burst out like a fungus , matured , rotted , and fell in a cloud of tinder dust amid its struggling offspring . |
| 4 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 5 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With the collapse of communism , moreover , a split opened up among the Communists . |
| 8 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 9 | And the little goblin followed Yanek up the mountain until they reached a high , lonely place where a waterfall ran down into a deep pool . |
| 10 | What do you think the difficulties could be if a Christian went out with a non-Christian ? |
| 11 | Kenamun had not removed his gaze from Huy , who began to feel like a specimen , or , worse , a snake stared down by a mongoose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A clerk came up to the counter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It appears a fight broke out after a game of pool . |
| 16 | Shortly after their third visit a fight broke out in the street . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Late in the afternoon , a porter came along with a creaking trolley carrying a coffee urn and snackstuffs , and everyone stirred to a kind of frisky wakefulness and examined the fare keenly . |
| 20 | With just five minutes remaining Mathers tipped a Ferguson shot on to the post and Hateley bundled in the rebound from close range . |
| 21 | A Perk struggled out of the lift ; another . |
| 22 | A jay flew out of a nearby tree , startling them with its clattering wings , and then they heard the unmistakable sound of distant adult voices calling . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the second half of the first millennium , a canoe set out from an island in the Tahitian chain and steered due north for two and a half thousand miles by the light of the stars and the ocean currents till it reached Hawaii . |
| 26 | An Indian wearing a turban came out of a door on the half landing and , with a slight bow , waited for her to pass . |
| 27 | The Battle of Britain was fought over their heads ; there were dog-fights in the Sussex summer skies , a Messerschmitt shot down on the peaceful Downs . |
| 28 | A spring fell out of the engine . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He saluted a little man in tight trousers and a yachting cap , standing by a boat pulled up on the bank . |