Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Pat Callaghan was just wide with his effort and Chris Copes was forced to kick clear as Steve Hudds beat a header off the line .
2 A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday .
3 The suspension loved it ( clonks from the front notwithstanding ) , the body sills and sumpguard slithered over bits where tractor rutting had cut deep , the whip aerial beat a tattoo on the roof and road-biased Semperit tyres found grip .
4 He beat a tattoo with the door-knocker , and again its reverberations filled the whole world .
5 Maiden city beauty queen Kelly Craig beat a bevy of 14 leggy lovelies to win the Miss Derry pageant this week .
6 Sir Richard , 60 , who beat a challenge from Belgian Gen Jose Charlier , takes over the three-year post from Norwegian Gen Vigleik Eide .
7 ‘ the world beat a path to our door , ’ said Pearce , ‘ We were supplying the technology and the catalysts world-wide .
8 Teaching my granny to suck eggs , I am sure , but did you see the last Scottish Business Insider which profiled a number of women ?
9 He also ventured a definition of hegemony , ‘ the totality of all laws and other arrangements by means of which the leading power of a union of states can give the community the desired direction and the stamp of its own spirit .
10 To encourage himself as much as anything , he ventured a handful of general questions about Neferukhebit 's activities on the days leading up to her death — questions which resulted in conventional answers , the activities of any rich young girl marking time between the end of her education and the arrival of her husband — for these girls were on the fringes of the royal household , and work such as Taheb did — was taboo to their class .
11 He assembled , organized , and analysed a mass of authorities , both Scottish and English .
12 This process analysed a matrix of the returns of n assets for t + 1 periods .
13 To determine which functional group in CP 96345 interacts with His197 , we analysed a series of CP 96345 analogues in which the major substituents were altered .
14 She analysed a series of slide talks given at a professional biomedical conference ( it might just as easily have been a meeting of linguists , judging by the examples ) , and classified the hedges .
15 She twiddled a strand of her frizzy blonde hair .
16 Dorcas sat and twiddled a bit of wire aimlessly .
17 The yarn was donated by King Cole Ltd , Yarn-a-Rama , Yeoman Yarns and T. Forsell & Sons Ltd — members also contributed a selection of their own yarns .
18 ‘ You-thanasia ! ’ contributed a boy near the back .
19 The results of Model Layout Ltd have been brought into account from 1st October 1990 and the company contributed a profit of £11m for the six months to 21st March 1991 .
20 At the age of 98 he contributed a preface to the biography of Col De Lancey Forth , of the Imperial Camel Corps .
21 The company contributed a quarter of the working capital requirements of Model Marketing and is jointly responsible for all costs and management decisions of the business .
22 In 1842 he wrote a prologue for Westland Marston 's play , The Patrician 's Daughter , and in 1844 contributed a poem on religious intolerance , ‘ A Word in Season ’ , to an annual , The Keepsake , edited by Lady Blessington .
23 At this time Henry contributed a poem to the fund-raising campaign for the construction of Salisbury Cathedral , and also wrote for patrons in Cologne .
24 who contributed a foreword in which she wrote : ‘ This is a very moving and remarkable first book and the author appears to be that rare being , a born writer . ’
25 He was a lively and stylish writer , and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living .
26 He worked very hard , even in the holidays : he threw himself into all the activities of the school and contributed a number of well-received papers to conferences on education .
27 He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine .
28 He was an original member of the Philobiblon Society , founded in 1853 by his friend Richard Monckton Milnes ( later first Baron Houghton , q.v. ) , and for whose publications , the Miscellanies , he contributed a number of articles about original documents connected with Venetian painters of the sixteenth century .
29 During the next voyage of the Beagle , Bynoe contributed a number of new finds for the ornithologist 's work on the Birds of Australia .
30 The men drank beer from the bottles , and one of them passed round the cigarettes he had bought on the flight , and the blond girl contributed a half-bottle of Stock brandy .
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