Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he turned to Rachel and for just a moment allowed his gaze to meet hers . |
| 2 | It did not help that the ‘ Hitler Diaries ’ , the story of how a forger fooled British and German newspapers as well as reputable historians with amateurish fakes purporting to be the German leader 's handwritten diaries , was currently on television . |
| 3 | The subtle acquisition of a sense of the agency norms — ‘ the normal working standards ’ — is suggested in the following description of how an officer learned the rules about when to take ‘ a stat ’ : |
| 4 | We have in a causal circumstance by itself a complete answer to the question of why an effect occurred . |
| 5 | He is not required to find out who was at fault , though it is possible that the explanation of why an accident occurred may point to errors or shortcomings on the part of particular individuals . |
| 6 | Occasionally too he saw crows flocking and feeding at a particular part of a sheep pasture — sometimes at a dead sheep but more often at the placenta left behind where a lamb had been born . |
| 7 | She had for nearly a month washed fanatically , with all the clarity and determination of which five-year-olds are capable . |
| 8 | Yesterday an investigation was under way into how a syringe came into Newall 's possession in spite of his being kept alone and under special surveillance . |
| 9 | While most of use were struggling to stay on the roads , the all-wheel-drive cars swanned along with barely a feather ruffled . |
| 10 | Once more her eyes flew to meet his , but this time there was a shy pleasure in their brown depths until again a shadow darkened them . |
| 11 | She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital . |
| 12 | It was she who was called upon when a neighbour had trouble at childbirth , or if good advice was being sought in matters of a domestic nature . |
| 13 | A light came on whenever a subject paused for longer than 600 milliseconds , although subjects were merely told that the light indicated when their story-telling was poor . |
| 14 | Up to now a current appeared to be absolutely essential for creating a magnetic flux . |
| 15 | The fact that three halfwits without even a rope tried to … |
| 16 | And Holly was gone , moving to where a space waited for him beside Poshekhonov . |
| 17 | We drove slowly to where a sentry stood . |
| 18 | Not quite touching , they strolled down the drive to the lane and then along a little way to where a stream meandered under a little bridge . |
| 19 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
| 20 | A MYSTERY man who has not spoken for almost a week broke his silence yesterday to Darlington police . |
| 21 | Ploughing through this for almost an hour brought us well into the hillside and at length to where the rail bed rose out of the water and into the old engine room . |
| 22 | He had n't known where to go , but he had a good instinct for direct , and he 'd reckoned as how a gateway had to be in the shell , far away from the heat sink as could be . |
| 23 | The Society has for over a year objected strongly to the plan under which the current arrangements for remunerating solicitors on the basis of work actually done are to be replaced by a standard fee scheme from April . |
| 24 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
| 25 | The second class of locative , or local names , are , as hinted in the last sentence , based on place names — such as where a man lived , where he held land , or where he hailed from . |
| 26 | At once a man came up to me bearing a dim lantern and said , ‘ Are you requiring a ferry to the other side of the lake , good sir ? ’ |
| 27 | Almost at once a telephone rang again . |
| 28 | Almost at once a head came round : a woman 's . |
| 29 | He sat , and at once a page came out of the shadows with a tray which contained cups and a flask of wine . |
| 30 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |