Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginnings of a smile lurked deep in his eyes , setting Isabel 's heart racing when she ventured a glance up at him . |
| 2 | Pearce cast a look back at Gilbert and Frye , to make sure that they were n't listening . |
| 3 | Lorton hooked a leg over and climbed into the room . |
| 4 | She drew a notebook out of her bag , and began to make a list . |
| 5 | ‘ We drew a petition up to the headmaster but he has n't done anything yet . ’ |
| 6 | Peter drew a torch out of his pocket and held it above his head ; the beam spread out , eventually spending itself against the darkness of the tunnel . |
| 7 | He smiled as he poured hot chocolate from a vacuum flask for her , then drew a chair up near the bed . |
| 8 | And they called me more or less er to do the odd jobs you know and in the brew house , as was here , I fixed , I told you once , I fixed a bench up , it was as tight as could be and put a vice on it and all in here , this shop here , they says you can come in here anytime and do what you like and er |
| 9 | Whether he come from this or not , but erm we were dredging the West Bank cos er the kind of ship we got there then were the big tankers and there were n't enough room for them to swing round , so we had to dredge part of the bank out to make the swinging berth and erm there we dredged a bone up about that size |
| 10 | Ash and I found a space over near the piano . |
| 11 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 12 | I had such a horrific adolescence and childhood , it 's not surprising I found a way out , an escape from the pain . |
| 13 | ‘ It took me a long , long time before I found a road back to the market town , and the dorf . |
| 14 | They found a café down a side-street , and were about to find somewhere to sit when she heard a voice call out to Piers . |
| 15 | It was so funny when you stubbed a fag out on his arse . |
| 16 | Cronenberg 's crazed , controversial , body-rebelling movie had some salient points to make about the video nasty furore then current , but scenes like the one where Deborah Harry stubbed a cigarette out on her breast got all the attention . |
| 17 | In the main square in Rashid we caught a taxi back to Alexandria . |
| 18 | They caught a flier out to the port , out of Schiaparelli on the Graben Road , past the Devil 's Fingers , those soaring pinnacles of rock , vermilion and cerise . |
| 19 | And grandfather caught a bus up to Ipswich market where my father was , and they drove home . |
| 20 | It was nearly two in the afternoon when , having watched the changing of the Guard at the Amalienborg Palace , admired the copper spire of the old Stock Exchange formed by the twisted tails of four dragons , gazed in appreciation at the magnificent Gefion 's Fountain and paid the customary respects to the statue of the Little Mermaid at the entrance to the harbour , she caught a bus back to the canal district . |
| 21 | He had picked up his money , and caught a plane out to Marseilles . |
| 22 | They looked like some great beast with gaping mouth and hungry eyes , then I caught a movement over near the great elms at the far side of the common . |
| 23 | Cos that was about , that must have been about erm er I 'd say time about , yes I should say about nineteen , nineteen thirty four and they built a pipeline out from the sewer outfall and they put two dolphins out there , and they reckon that the water , when it 's purified just to go into the river was really clean water . |
| 24 | He built a motorbike out of scrap bits he found on the tip , which did n't endear him to Grandma , or anyone else . |
| 25 | This involved a detour round to the McDonald 's on Baker Street before the PR lady missed us . |
| 26 | A success both in front of the box and on the critics ' pages CHANCER created a vogue out of a rogue — the identity of Stephen Crane ( Clive Owen 's role ) catching the attention of the country and reflecting the social changes in the early 90's as the enterprise culture began to take a tumble . |
| 27 | POLICE are warning residents to be on their guard after two men tricked a pensioner out of several hundred pounds . |
| 28 | Erm , I saw a few white hats but erm I tried a couple on , I thought one would have suited me , but it did n't . |
| 29 | But in terms of the Championship race we churned a result out . |
| 30 | And if it 's a few pence out , they 're not going to worry about it , particularly if I tell them , I , I added a bit on so that I 'm telling them less . |