Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Rail will be rapped today for not doing an immediate drug test on a train driver after a crash that killed two and injured 500 . |
| 2 | Zamora in Los Angeles is like Murphy in Ireland , ‘ and most of them are just as tough ’ said McCullough 's manager , Matt Tinley after a bout that brought out the best in Wayne . |
| 3 | Finally , on 15th June 1094 , the city gave itself up totally to Rodrigo after a siege that had lasted nineteen months . |
| 4 | The great majority of the children recovered very quickly after a quarrel and showed no evidence of resentment . |
| 5 | In contrast , Alcatel France was having problems after a showdown that involved France selling Mirage fighter aircraft to Taiwan . |
| 6 | ‘ Why , Sarella ? ’ he grated after a battle that seemed to draw itself out to the limits . |
| 7 | Say a bird has gone after a rabbit and landed awkwardly and got one of its deck feathers ( a pair of prominent feathers found in the tail ) buckled . |
| 8 | I left after a year and went to Cambridge in order to read Philosophy and Art History , which was my first degree . |
| 9 | Xanthe Lorrimore got up from the table after a while and went that way , and presently came back screaming . |
| 10 | He sighed after a while and asked how I was feeling . |
| 11 | They did n't regain top place until April , after a winter that saw a home defeat by strugglers Chelsea and another 'flu epidemic . |
| 12 | I was ready to chuck it all in after a decision that flew in the face of reason . |
| 13 | ‘ You looked beautiful , ’ he said after a pause that agonized them both . |
| 14 | ‘ He sort of talked me into it , ’ she said after a pause that seemed to have gone out of control . |
| 15 | The sources said he is infuriated with her after a row that erupted last week , and is likely to distance himself from her . |
| 16 | We then had to get back to the car , and after a detour that took in just about all of the countryside , we arrive back at the airport for the flight home . |
| 17 | Léonie got up after a moment and went out to get the salad . |
| 18 | But I left the first of her three Sunday night shows feeling vaguely let down after a set that mixed the great with the gaffs . |
| 19 | The year before they had taken the League title for the third time running , becoming the second , and last , club to do the hat-trick , after a season that saw Highbury 's record crowd — 73,295 for the game against Sunderland in March 1935 . |
| 20 | KIM BAILEY and jockey Anthony Tory yesterday ‘ mutually agreed ’ to part after a partnership that had lasted nearly five years . |
| 21 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 22 | W. Dunlop , farmer of Knockdon for the past twelve years , left Bridgend after a market and took a short cut across the sands of Lochindaal and was drowned . |
| 23 | Walsh — whose ‘ bad boy ’ reputation began five years ago when he received a record nine-match ban after an incident that left Shrewsbury 's David Geddis with a broken jaw — returns today for the visit of Brentford . |
| 24 | Somehow it was helping , this inevitable back-stabbing repartee when two lovers met after an affair that had left a pool of acid where fond memories should have rested . |
| 25 | ‘ Tired again , ’ he said simply after an hour and went back to his room . |
| 26 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |
| 27 | Two of Elizabeth 's Attorneys , John Price and Thomas Atkins , were certainly guilty of abusing justice : Price forged those parts of a document that had been eaten by mice and Atkins took bribes from men charged before the Council . |
| 28 | Phil complained , mourning the ending of a conversation that had begun to interest him . |
| 29 | In total about twenty-six copper coins were recovered from this section , which is quite a lot from just one part of a field that had no habitation on it . |
| 30 | She was wearing a short black skirt and a tiny scrap of a top that emphasised her heavy breasts . |