Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pathologists who carried out a post-mortem examination on Mrs Henderson said she had developed a chest infection and died from complications due to her head injury . |
| 2 | ‘ Enjoy our disco-bats in their jungle gym in the sky ! ’ was the enticing offer stripped across the GG 's Barnum Room doors , the disco-bats being male acrobats who performed over a net draped just above the heads of the dancers . |
| 3 | Before getting down to their books they searched out a hollow straw and leaned flat across the spring to drink the water which was famed for its coldness . |
| 4 | On his way up the paved path between walls of rose bushes he picked up a piece of old iron pipe with his gloved hand . |
| 5 | It tells the story of the development , testing and eventual use of the atomic bombs which brought about an end to the Second World War . |
| 6 | Queen Margaret , white-faced and with dark-ringed eyes , nodded slightly and Catesby prised loose the lid to reveal white , gauze cloths which gave off a sweet fragrant perfume . |
| 7 | The killing of Earnwine , son of Eadwulf , in 740 may have been a prolongation of older rivalries which sparked off a new cycle of vendetta . |
| 8 | At a joint one-day Wedgwood and Sotheby 's identification and valuation event at the Westfries Museum , in Hoorn , Lynn encountered many Dutch visitors who brought in a variety of heirlooms or pieces they had collected . |
| 9 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 10 | The Japanese interned those who surrendered without a struggle and killed all those French elements who put up a resistance . |
| 11 | For many years I huddled over a calor gas stove in the winter and ate beans on toast . |
| 12 | Together with the freight stations they took up a considerable area of the city . |
| 13 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 14 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 15 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 16 | With some of the other interested officers I worked out a syllabus for training selected junior officers in the rudiments of seamanship and navigation using Venturous as a practical training ship . |
| 17 | A little later we saw another cow and then through my glasses I picked up a bull lying down in the distance . |
| 18 | Local Stigmatic is about two Cockney thugs who beat up an actor in the pub because ‘ fame is the first disgrace because God knows who you are . ’ |
| 19 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 20 | They say many of the prospective owners who put down a fifty thousand pound deposit are now looking to pull out . |
| 21 | Seeing the strangers he let out a shout , and headed towards them . |
| 22 | The police had arrived now in the shape of a wpc who was talking amiably to the protesters who moved back a little apparently in response to her request . |
| 23 | One was a rather patrician young man from a firm of London stockbrokers who played off a single figure handicap at Sunningdale and was a special guest of the chairman of the sponsoring company . |
| 24 | Of the protocol violators , those seven patients who missed out a cystoscopy and then had recurrences , six have only had occasional recurrences during the remainder of their follow up , and one required chemotherapy four years from diagnosis , when he developed multiple superficial recurrences . |
| 25 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 26 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |
| 27 | Most importantly , there was a cluster of writers , directors , actors and critics who gathered around an idea of a realistic , passionate , intellectual theatre which would have been a most fertile ground for Burton . |
| 28 | In a series of lunges he cut off a sector of north Vietnam and isolated much of Laos . |
| 29 | With clumsy fingers he took out a pack of cigarettes and tried to light one . |
| 30 | They stressed London 's constant theme of ever-more open markets which chalked up a success with this week 's unexpected decision to break down restrictions on competition in the European airline industry . |