Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you have n't gone up to a bar and asked for a pils have you ? |
| 2 | On Sept. 14 , 1989 , an agreement was eventually initialled which provided for a customs union with the EC whereby industrial goods would flow freely between Andorra and the EC but the EC 's external tariffs would be applied by Andorra to third countries . |
| 3 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 4 | Sally Ann Cattell , 14 , of Birmingham , was killed after the stolen car she was driving crashed during a police chase . |
| 5 | The Sierra Cosworth was chased along the A5 before it crashed into a police roadblock near Milton Keynes . |
| 6 | The assailant , a man , fled in a sports car . |
| 7 | A social worker was called in and , with a lot of support , Annie moved to a women 's refuge and then to a small flat . |
| 8 | His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies . |
| 9 | The four were Donna Maguire , arrested in Turnhout , Belgium , on June 16 , who was wanted in connexion with attacks in West Germany in 1989 ; Gerard Majella Harte , arrested over the Dutch border on June 16 , after evading Belgian police near Turnhout , with a man provisionally named as Michael Collins who escaped in handcuffs but was later picked up over the Dutch border in Chaam , on June 18 ; and Paul Hughes , who drove through a police checkpoint in Chaam on June 18 and was arrested there on June 19 . |
| 10 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 11 | The giant wrought-iron entrance gates , for example , came from the people of Tetbury , the fruit trees espaliered against the walls of the vegetable garden were presented by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers and the herbs came from a women 's institute in Sussex . |
| 12 | They came from a police loud hailer . |
| 13 | On Dec. 12 a 900-kg bomb , described as one of largest ever used by the IRA , exploded outside a police station in Craigavon , injuring more than 60 people . |
| 14 | The RUC Chief Constable says his officers wo n't be bombed out of policing the province , after a massive car bomb exploded outside a police station in County Antrim . |
| 15 | The cab driver drove to a police station . |
| 16 | He drove to a Customs depot where it was sealed by Spanish Customs officers . |
| 17 | Twice former title-holder Richard Corsie advanced to set up an all-Scottish second-round clash with Gourlay when he coasted to a straight-sets win over South Africa 's Bill Moseley . |
| 18 | A car bomb exploded at a police station in Burgos on Aug. 17 , severely injuring one person . |
| 19 | At seven-twenty that same morning , Scott had been at the site of an unusual hit-and-run story : two older men had been killed and another injured by a police patrol car . |
| 20 | Four of the casualties received serious injuries when the device ripped through a gents lavatory on Platform Four . |
| 21 | These jobs were soon done , and Redpath telephoned for a police car to take the cartridges and clothes to their respective experts . |
| 22 | It consisted of a Personnel Manager , two Personnel Officers , a Training Officer and three clerical staff . |
| 23 | In a widely publicised incident a few months later Ben , diagnosed as schizophrenic , climbed into a lions ' cage at London Zoo . |
| 24 | The incident that led to Joanna 's death happened outside a children 's home in Cheltenham . |
| 25 | It amalgamated with a boys ' secondary modern in September 1975 to form a mixed comprehensive but retained a strong grammar school ethos amongst a section of the senior teachers . |
| 26 | ‘ Shall I open yours ? ’ she asked with a clenched-teeth smile . |
| 27 | He then gained a job as a clerk in the City , and served as a signals lance corporal in the Territorial Army . |
| 28 | Cumberland was on record as believing that a battle without a cannonade was like a dance without music and Culloden began as a gunners ’ battle . |
| 29 | Letters like these are worthy of recording , especially when the writer from Camberley finished with a p.s. that concludes ‘ As a satisfied customer , needless to say I have not even looked at any other . ’ |
| 30 | In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station . |