Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impromptu discussion groups formed whenever a man sat outside his house . |
| 2 | There must be very few bird reserves situated only a few minutes ' walk from the centre of a town which turn out to be as rewarding as Radipole Lake , another RSPB reserve . |
| 3 | The car parked about a hundred yards from the loch and two men , clad in town clothes , got out and ambled over : ‘ Any luck ? ’ they inquired . |
| 4 | Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green . |
| 5 | From the cat 's point of view , the folded ears have the slight disadvantage that they do not communicate the usual mood signals seen when a cat , becoming angry or scared , starts to flatten its ears ready for fighting . |
| 6 | Tea and eatables brought in a big Orkney basket to the harvesters and eaten while seated in the lea of the stokes was a special treat . |
| 7 | The borough brought in a group of consultants to produce topic papers on twelve of the major areas affected by abolition . |
| 8 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 9 | Not like doing it by remote control , having Jem set up a trip-wire . |
| 10 | Text and images linked Currently a common method of combining text and images in a range of database types , including CD-ROM . |
| 11 | These anomalies caused not a few petty grouses . |
| 12 | From the mauve card cut out a rectangle 14 × 10cm and a handle 7cm long . |
| 13 | The missionary officers had their groceries delivered twice a week by lorry from the nearest store which was nine or ten miles away . |
| 14 | The superintendent folded up a chapati . |
| 15 | The pictures taken over a period of 30 years by late showbusiness cameraman Dezo Hoffman are to be sold by Phillips in London on April 22 . |
| 16 | However just less than 53% achieved either a moderate or good degree and the proportion obtaining a poor degree was 13% . |
| 17 | Results show that the majority of students involved in the DipHE courses progressed to a degree course of some kind , and that no less than 75% of mature students achieved a degree , and 85% of the ‘ under-qualified ’ on entry achieved either a degree or a DipHE . |
| 18 | If you have your hair done once a week could you set it yourself and just visit the hairdressers for a cut every two months ? |
| 19 | An old lady owned about a third of an acre of waste land , with a ten-foot wide gully across it . |
| 20 | Usually the mother offered and the prospective adoptive parents requested either a weekly sum or , more commonly , a premium or lump sum of anything between £5 and £100 . |
| 21 | Mrs Browning began to laugh but the laugh brought on a coughing fit and , when Wilson rushed to her aid and raised her higher on the pillow , her face took on an ugly blue tinge , which she had never seen before . |
| 22 | The 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act brought in a voucher system for the entry of Commonwealth citizens and distinguished between skilled and unskilled workers . |
| 23 | The Marines brought in a first , small load of 30 bags of rice and grain to offer the local people as a gesture . |
| 24 | They needed weapons badly so the Iraqis brought in a group of people including me . |
| 25 | Plugged into your stereo , the lighting effect , which is multi-coloured and does pulsate , is fun in a dark room , especially when there 's a lot of bass , and might liven up a party . |
| 26 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 27 | In the 1989 Budget , the Chancellor brought in a new ceiling limit of £90,000 , based on earnings of £60,000 to be revalued every year in line with price increases . |
| 28 | The last few feet required only a very slight rearward movement of the yoke to arrest the sink , and she touched with just one stiff-legged little bounce . |
| 29 | In connected speech , however , in addition to the two kinds of substitution error mentioned above a correct word may be omitted or an incorrect word may be inserted into the string . |
| 30 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |