Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Diplock laid down a presumptions approach to the question : One starts with the presumption … that where an Act creates an obligation , and enforces the performance in a specified manner … that performance can not be enforced in any other manner … |
| 2 | But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) . |
| 3 | After tea he dozed through an old Peter Sellers film at the King 's Road Classic , dined off a biriani , dozed through an old Tati film at the Baker Street Classic , and crept upstairs to his flat just in time to meet Mounce coming downstairs from his den . |
| 4 | We quickly drew up a children 's broadcasting legend hitlist . |
| 5 | The news came only a weeks after another major Abingdon employer , Abingdon Carpets , announced a hundred and fifty jobs would go with the transfer of its distribution centre from the town to Bradford . |
| 6 | In the deductive/empirical experiment , each child received either a questions task or a sentence completion task . |
| 7 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 actress Shannen Doherty turned down a Pounds 60,000 offer to pose for Playboy because her bosses would n't let her strip . |
| 8 | Most of the remaining paintwork was covered in CND symbols , as were most of the T-shirts , jeans , smock tops and even a couple of nappies which hung on a clothes line stretched between the bus and the fence . |
| 9 | But such arguments livened up a drugs meeting held in Washington on May 7th to rethink America 's policies . |
| 10 | A dark figure took off a police helmet and wiped his brow . |
| 11 | I ladled the curried object , whatever it was , on to a heap of saffron rice , smothered it with sauce , rolled up a chipathi and set to . |
| 12 | A court has heard how a father gunned down a drugs dealer who 'd been supplying his sons with cannabis . |
| 13 | A man who gunned down a drugs dealer who supplied his sons with cannibis , has been jailed for life . |
| 14 | In France the book had quite a succès de scandale . |
| 15 | The distraught woman was dumped about five miles away from the reservoir , at Whitburn , west Lothian , and she flagged down a police patrol car from the Lothian and Borders force . |
| 16 | Alternatively , set up a 24″ tank and grow Caulerpa separately . |
| 17 | Q I recently set up a 48″ x 12″ x 18″ Mbuna community . |
| 18 | Q I recently set up a 36″ × 18″ × 15″ tropical community tank . |
| 19 | I had dropped out of regular English teaching and set up a special-needs unit in the school . |
| 20 | The screen flashed up a weapons menu , requesting operator input . |