Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | INCREDIBLY for a railway system that has served the nation for more than 150 years there is still a considerable amount of history either still serving or extant . |
| 2 | I qualified in 1979 and have worked as a social worker and latterly as a team manager in various London boroughs . |
| 3 | Programmes were long over , but the white screen with the volume down served not badly as a night light ; any of the lamps in the shoebox room kept Sam awake , and total darkness made him frightened . |
| 4 | I rummage furiously for a freebie hotel mini-shampoo bottle with a screw-on lid the size of a marble . |
| 5 | They were heavily barred and on wheels , somewhere between a luggage trolley and a circus sideshow . |
| 6 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 7 | The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field . |
| 8 | Gradually her technique improved , and Water Gypsy glided on through a country solitude of farms and fields . |
| 9 | Apart from a ten year break to raise a family and one other short break , Jean has also worked continuously , mostly as a Spool Setter and then as a Colour Counter , calculating the percentage and number of colours used in each new design . |
| 10 | Giant Tortoise … a visit to the beautiful island of La Digue can be booked locally as a day excursion by ferry from Praslin … |
| 11 | Retiring members included the Chairman , of who had been in post since 1984 , seeing the Council successfully through a record number of reviews of its work , ways of working and reconstitutions . |
| 12 | Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ In fact I 've heard Mauleverer going on about a tripe restaurant in Paris . ’ |
| 14 | You 're you 're all right for a hair brush then are you ? |
| 15 | The real loss of life occurred on the evening of 4 December when a group of insurgents , accompanied by a crowd who had apparently come along to watch events , was fired on during a panic reaction on the part of the soldiers . |
| 16 | It may be shown diagrammatically as a management grid ; for example : |
| 17 | After clocking on for a night shift they did not start work immediately but went instead to the canteen for a cup of tea . |
| 18 | The kettle went on for a lunchtime brew-up before we tackled the group of small , uninhabited islands which lie west of Whalsay : Nacka Skerry , Nista , Mooa , Isbister Holm ( the only place in Shetland where sea-aster grows ) , East Linga and Grif Skerry . |
| 19 | The 21-year-old international , also a forward , clocks on for a trial period today , 24 hours after the arrival of Norway 's star striker , Tore Andre Dahlum of Rosenberg , who started a week 's trial yesterday . |
| 20 | Twenty-four hours after training , there was getting on for a sixty-per-cent increase in the numbers of spines to be found on the dendrites in the left IMHV ( but almost no effect in the right ) . |
| 21 | Cast on for a test piece and knit a few rows ending with the carriage at the right . |
| 22 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 23 | In the string , taking Shine On for a showpiece half-speed over five furlongs , riding home , her mind was on the implications of his message . |
| 24 | Visitors to the National Fishing Heritage Centre sign on as a crew member of a 1950 's steam trawler and journey to the Arctic fishing grounds . |
| 25 | The good news is that Don is prepared to stay on as a board member . ’ |
| 26 | Coming on as a second-half substitute after two years out with an elbow injury , Montana led the San Francisco 49ers to three scores in the fourth quarter to clinch a 24-6 victory over the Detroit Lions . |
| 27 | The Sheffield Wednesday striker was livid at finding himself back on the bench just 28 minutes after being sent on as a second-half substitute at Norwich on Saturday . |
| 28 | ‘ Apart from his match-winning goal against Oxford United , I was pleased with his overall contribution when he came on as a second-half substitute . |
| 29 | It can be looked on as a discussion document and its coincidence with the real world is verified in discussions with the various users . |
| 30 | I sang in the choir at chapel and was called on as a boy soprano for various local concerts or for a solo or two at Bude parish church . |