Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made from a proms concert ‘ sometime in the '70s ’ — featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink ( just the usual orchestral Suite ) . |
| 2 | I belonged to a ramblers ’ club at university , not a survival organisation , ’ she explained shortly . |
| 3 | I went to a cattle market in |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From this intimacy flowed the missionary movement of the church which began in an Acts 13 worship meeting . |
| 7 | ‘ Shall I open yours ? ’ she asked with a clenched-teeth smile . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | But the youngsters were found dead in their beds after she walked into a police station at the weekend . |
| 11 | One of her hobbies was anaesthetics , and she subscribed to an anaesthetists ' journal in which she had seen an advertisement for a chemist who outfitted doctors ' waiting-rooms and surgeries . |
| 12 | She thought for a minutes and said : " Yes , you do have a look of a Renoir lady , sometimes " That 's a nice way of saying Fat is Beautiful . |
| 13 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 14 | FOOTBALL fans who went to an Airdrieonians versus Ayr United league match 36 years ago have been asked to come forward as they could have vital information on a schoolgirl who disappeared in 1957 . |
| 15 | Yet another who went into a Scoops ( now Staks ) Reject China Shop described the stock in less than enthusiastic terms , although this was doubtless sour grapes over the sluggishness of the share price at the time — contrary to what his dealer had led him to expect . |
| 16 | A Nairobi lawyer , Martha Njoka , claimed that she was assaulted by a special branch superintendent when she went to a police station to trace Imanyara . |
| 17 | Kennedy has long held a fascination for Jimi Hendrix , who died from a drugs overdose in 1970 . |
| 18 | She appeared at a police press conference in Derby with the sergeant 's mother , Mrs Joyce Newman , 58 , after the Irish National Liberation Army admitted responsibility for the murder . |
| 19 | A Sky spokesman added : ‘ We agreed to a police request that Bobby Gould should not be at the ground , even though he worked for us in the same capacity at the first match between the two sides . ’ |
| 20 | The nearest thing we got to a jacuzzi was a fart in the bath . |
| 21 | ‘ We subscribed to a Customs and Excise newsletter to keep pace with the changes — and things were happening so fast they even brought out a special Christmas edition . |
| 22 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 23 | Vinod Kambli ( aged 18 ) and Sachin Tendulkar ( 17 ) appear destined for full Test careers , although yesterday 's partnership of nought was 644 runs fewer than the one they shared in a schools game two years ago . |
| 24 | They came from a police loud hailer . |
| 25 | and th you know they came from an arts background fine you know |
| 26 | In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station . |
| 27 | Burglars caused £2,000 worth of damage when they broke into a greengrocers ' shop in Castlegate , Thirsk , and stole £45 in cash . |
| 28 | Burglars caused £2,000 worth of damage when they broke into a greengrocers ' shop in Castlegate , Thirsk , and stole £45 in cash . |
| 29 | Well they went to a boys school you see afterwards . |
| 30 | And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity . |