Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The borough brought in a group of consultants to produce topic papers on twelve of the major areas affected by abolition . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not like doing it by remote control , having Jem set up a trip-wire . |
| 5 | From the mauve card cut out a rectangle 14 × 10cm and a handle 7cm long . |
| 6 | The superintendent folded up a chapati . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | An old lady owned about a third of an acre of waste land , with a ten-foot wide gully across it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act brought in a voucher system for the entry of Commonwealth citizens and distinguished between skilled and unskilled workers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We have of course got here a speech about a human bond versus a larger loyalty . |
| 18 | Dexter handed across an article dated about a year before from one of the broadsheet newspapers . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is fortunate that the fossil record preserved only a fraction of the truly stupendous total number of species that must have lived since the Cambrian , for otherwise the scientists ' task to catalogue 600 million years of life would be an impossible one . |
| 20 | At that time the houses were scattered and there was no village shop ( the mobile shop called once a week ) , although there was a church and a school . |
| 21 | In 1968 another coup brought in a purely Baath regime in its place . |
| 22 | The coroner brought in a verdict of wilful murder . |
| 23 | Last year , Sir Richard Body brought in a private member 's bill to introduce within five years a ban on the use of sow stalls and tethers — devices that make it easier and cheaper to manage the animals during their four months of pregnancy . |
| 24 | The Group brought in a new President at its Miami headquarter to coincide with a massive publicity launch . |
| 25 | Hundreds of people have this evening spelled out a seasonal warning to the government : NO V.A.T. on domestic fuel . |
| 26 | At least , Denise and Jean-Louis Lavergne claim they are the lovers in the world 's most romantic picture taken on a spring morning in 1950 . |
| 27 | On the roof of the next barge is a group huddled round a radio , cheering a football match in Kinshasa , five hundred miles downstream . |
| 28 | Despite the overall improvement in both groups , one patient on elemental diet and two on prednisolone achieved only a partial remission at four weeks . |
| 29 | The carapace required almost a year to become fully symbiotic with the body — and its owner required purification , distillation in the alembic of combat before his augmented natural body could be judged to be fully transmuted in spirit as well as in flesh and bone , and thus worthy of donning complete Marine armour … |
| 30 | What is in issue from the perspective of legitimacy is whether the particular use made of that undoubted constitutional power , the manner of its use , and the justification both for the use and manner of use — that considerations of national security required both a banning of trade unions and no consultation with affected officers before the ban was announced was a fair and reasonable use of power ? |