Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal provokes further speculation that Rowland is preparing the way for a successor to take over the group he has led for 30 years . |
| 2 | A DRIVER called out the AA to repair an oil leak after he hit a frozen turkey lying in the road . |
| 3 | The new Prime Minister was obliged , yesterday morning , to send a driver to find out the telephone number of one of his key ministers , before Mr Singh could pass on the good news of his appointment . |
| 4 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 5 | ‘ All three put up a struggle to fight off the attacker . |
| 6 | On the night of Saturday 27 June a gang broke down the door of one of the galleries of the unguarded archaeological museum on the Cycladic island of Paros and stole eighteen exhibits , mostly marble figurines , dated to the Cycladic early Bronze Age ( 3200–2100 BC ) , with an estimated value of just under £300,000 . |
| 7 | If ever a sentence summed up the gale of change that is blasting through Yorkshire cricket this season it is that one . |
| 8 | but still he fought , kicking and struggling until a blow blotted out the world ... |
| 9 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 10 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 11 | Cheshire Railtours are planning a rail tour up the WCML to Carlisle and return via the S & C on Saturday 17th April 1993 , cost £20 . |
| 12 | The input/output address of the VidiPC card can be easily changed by setting a jumper switch on the board . |
| 13 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
| 14 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 15 | Merchants came next , men and women , then a prostitute ; a beggar brought up the rear , these allegorical figures representing the inescapable gradations of decay . |
| 16 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 17 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 18 | A soldier pointed out the strangers to his commanding officer . |
| 19 | Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres ? |
| 20 | This provides a classic instance of a president taking on the legislature in the most important of policy areas and succeeding in imposing his will . |
| 21 | Inside the weight room a tape blared out the music of The Doors to remove the tedium of the hour-and-a-half session spent lifting , pushing and battling with weights . |
| 22 | The question was left open in Davies v Flackett [ 1973 ] RTR 8 , where the accused drove off without paying from a car park while a stranger held up the barrier . |
| 23 | Then , distant beyond the broad bowl full of skeleton walls , she saw the headlights of a car pass on the road to Silcaster , sweeping eerily across the filigree of stonework and grass , and vanishing again at the turn of the highway . |
| 24 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 25 | He heard a burst of gunfire and saw a car disappearing down the Glen Road . |
| 26 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 27 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 28 | the pretty girl victim … four months after The Fox subjected her to a three-hour sex ordeal — and forced her brother and her boyfriend at gunpoint to perform degrading acts with her — the girl crawled into an airing cupboard in a bid to shut out the memories . |
| 29 | Graham Kelly , FA chief executive , yesterday morning abandoned England 's team headquarters in Santander to fly to London in a bid to sort out the crisis . |
| 30 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |