Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intruders broke into a doctors surgery at Thirsk . |
| 2 | The giant wrought-iron entrance gates , for example , came from the people of Tetbury , the fruit trees espaliered against the walls of the vegetable garden were presented by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers and the herbs came from a women 's institute in Sussex . |
| 3 | A FALL in defence earnings resulted in a profits collapse last year at Graseby , formerly known as Cambridge Electronic Industries , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 4 | This was a new factor in Greek politics ; previously Corinth had been friendly towards Athens , partly for the standard reason that Greeks tended to a friends with their neighbours ' enemies ( p. 16 ) . |
| 5 | A Vietnamese was said to have attacked a taxi driver in a black market-related dispute , although other reports spoke of a police operation against black-marketeers . |
| 6 | My tyres rumbled across a cattle grating ; I watched for a marker board of the Screw Worm Quarantine Line . |