Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judy Dunn and a co-worker observed directly the interactions of brothers and sisters in their own homes , in forty-three pairs of siblings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If ever a sentence summed up the gale of change that is blasting through Yorkshire cricket this season it is that one . |
| 4 | but still he fought , kicking and struggling until a blow blotted out the world ... |
| 5 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
| 6 | Merchants came next , men and women , then a prostitute ; a beggar brought up the rear , these allegorical figures representing the inescapable gradations of decay . |
| 7 | A soldier pointed out the strangers to his commanding officer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At one point , a flare lit up the night sky . |
| 11 | A flare lit up the sky as Taff was talking , casting eerie shadows among the trees . |
| 12 | And a star-shell lit up the winter night sky … |
| 13 | A bomb blew up the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building and the nearby NatWest tower on April 24th , just as life in London 's financial centre was getting back to normal after a similar episode in April 1992 . |
| 14 | A stream tumbled down the cliff opposite our tents , then flowed through a jumble of rocks among a grove of trees . |
| 15 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 16 | But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay . |
| 17 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 18 | On the second day of the storm a seaman bellowed down the hatch . |
| 19 | A lorry thundered down the Woolwich Road towards Greenwich , making conversation temporarily impossible . |
| 20 | A court heard how the plan almost turned to disaster when , half way across the North Sea , the dinghy began filling with water . |
| 21 | This may be a perfectly valid statement of the law but if a court decided otherwise the consequences for the tenant could be regrettable . |
| 22 | A notice hung on the gate and he read the words in the beam of the headlamps : DANGER . |
| 23 | A woman walked down the hall and into the sitting room , disappearing round the door towards the front of the house . |
| 24 | She describes in precise detail the deserted country road in Mayobridge , County Down , where a mine blew up the Land-Rover he was travelling in . |
| 25 | This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since . |
| 26 | A niece took over the post office when she married , and it was moved to the present premises . |
| 27 | ‘ The wild swan hurries high and noises loud/ with white neck peering to the evening cloud , ’ and ‘ Coy bum barrels [ long-tailed tits ] twenty in a drove/ lit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain/ and hang on little twigs and start again . ‘ |
| 28 | A man came up the ladder from the engine room and Dickie opened his letter . |
| 29 | A spokesman pointed out the jet had been in use for five years and there had been no complaints until recently . |
| 30 | Here is an extract from the minutes of January 10 : ‘ J Peeke brought to the attention of the committee that she only had one set of keys , not two like stated at the Christmas Party when a councillor asked where the Space Invaders keys were so they could have a few free games . ’ |