Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He could have been eaten or run over or trodden on or blown away or fallen down a hole or trapped , ’ said Grimma . |
| 2 | This kind of sexism can be ( and has been ) noted , but it is hard to get rid of because it occurs in ‘ unregulated ’ contexts : nobody has made or written down a rule saying that women can be addressed as ‘ dearie ’ or referred to as ‘ bitches ’ . |
| 3 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 4 | The extra work is needed to cope with demand for its new Rover 800 saloon , which although launched just a year ago is hammering opposition in the executive market . |
| 5 | And filled in a registration form that could be checked on . |
| 6 | The Angels later paired and spawned about a year later . |
| 7 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 8 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 9 | To facilitate this , the conference organisers had prepared a list of topics and drawn up a list of questions which might be considered in the discussions . |
| 10 | It is significant that having conducted a review of the ‘ state of the art ’ in these areas , and drawn up a list of generalisations about the change process in education , Bolam cautions that generalisations ‘ should be regarded as working hypotheses and pointers for future study since their basis in research is weak ’ . |
| 11 | If thought right a proposal must go to Divisions and be put at the Annual General Meeting . |
| 12 | The contract was awarded in September 1990 and within six weeks CCG had mobilised and handed over a number of buildings to support the construction team on the ‘ Core Site ’ . |
| 13 | Hennessy looked up from replacing his pen in his jacket pocket , and called out a warning . |
| 14 | The vestry itself was so familiar from childhood memories that Dalgliesh could have taken one quick glance , shut his eyes and spoken aloud an inventory of high church piety : the packets of incense on top of the cupboard ; the incense holder and censer ; the crucifix and , behind the faded red serge curtain , the lace-trimmed vestments and the short starched surplices of the choir . |
| 15 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 16 | Exhaust fumes made her drowsy and brought on a headache and pains in her eyes . |
| 17 | Well , there was n't much else to do in the evening until one day Mr Dowson arrived and said to me and Mrs Dowson : ‘ Now then , I 've got something for you lassies ’ , and brought in a wireless set . |
| 18 | Dixon — Walker — Dorigo at the back and brought in a target-man at top — the key to norways big win ( 10–0 ) vs san marino was jostein flo : he won every single duel in the air … |
| 19 | She had sat up and stretched out a hand to lift the receiver when she paused . |
| 20 | When he had turned two corners and gone about a quarter of a mile , he gave Dann the pistol . |
| 21 | Even so , she had meekly done as they wished and taken on a responsibility that was clearly a bit of a burden . |
| 22 | On at least a morning a week at ‘ family specialist ’ hotels , children are collected , given breakfast and taken on a trip or entertained for a few hours so their parents can enjoy a morning on their own . |
| 23 | Not in shame , but in confusion and surprise she realised that her eyes were opaque with tears , and that the voices had swayed into the foreground and taken on a meaning . |
| 24 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
| 25 | Then she reported another bit of foolishness : she had concealed and taken home a knife which had been sent to Eliot . |
| 26 | At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the Ark , that he had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 27 | He had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 28 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 29 | My real preference is for Surrealist work , though watered down a bit . |
| 30 | Recovering quickly from a slow start , John Gosden 's colt settled matters in the space of a few strides when sent ahead a furlong out . |