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

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1 Oh you have n't gone up to a bar and asked for a pils have you ?
2 He then gained a job as a clerk in the City , and served as a signals lance corporal in the Territorial Army .
3 ‘ A modest house with a small garden where the grass looks as though it has been cut with nail-scissors and weeded with a forceps ; a dolls ’ house , with nothing out of place , everything polished and dusted . ’
4 Harbury rebelled and went to a Women 's Word press reception instead .
5 This is filled with Hex-nodes , tiny clay tubes , and oxygenated by a venturi system attached to the pump which injects air into the compartment .
6 What he got was rather different — Cooper was cut over both his eyes and plodded to a points decision before being roundly booed .
7 Birmingham 's Curzon Street , with its Ionic portico , the Midlands ' equivalent of the triumphal arch at Euston , was replaced as passenger terminal in 1854 by New Street Station but continued as a goods station .
8 She all but tripped over a clothes line embedded in the tussocky grass .
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