Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that a housewife , who was making pancakes before Lent , realised she was late for church … and rushed off , still clutching her pancake . |
| 2 | While grass allows the foot to swivel when a player changes direction , feet often stick to plastic . |
| 3 | Libby would not watch ; she hated the high-pitched squealing as the rabbits panicked , hearing a stick thump or a shot ring out , seeing the warm fur parting in the breeze as someone threw it down beside the other corpses . |
| 4 | The majority concede that a complaint which is not supported by evidence of injury is unlikely to be pursued by the police . |
| 5 | In contrast to these results , Slobin and Welsh found that a child was able to imitate one of her own utterances immediately after she had produced it spontaneously , but that errors occurred when the child was asked to imitate the same utterance some minutes later . |
| 6 | One example of bad practice of this kind occurred where a hospital refused to re-admit a patient three days after discharge , and the senior social worker in desperation on a Friday afternoon sent a taxi driver to pick up a vulnerable old woman , to gather together her things , and take her into a residential care home . |
| 7 | A snap survey in the West Country by New Scientist found that a number of garages want £8 or more for what should be just a few minutes ' work . |
| 8 | Or , better still , maybe we should question the present shibboleth that a bath or a shower a day is necessary for hygiene . |
| 9 | Less controversially , it soon becomes apparent to personnel involved in course and presenter evaluation that student respondents rarely assign very poor ratings , or make extremely negative comments , even when other indicators such as colleague judgement suggest that a course has been presented particularly poorly . |
| 10 | This kitchen looks like a bomb 's hit it . |
| 11 | About thirty in each suite to differ and a master key and as I say there was five suites and they had to make a key that 'd open everyone of the fifty-five . |
| 12 | ( Later , he returned to one such camp to work as a counsellor himself . |
| 13 | The boat overturned and a sailor was drowned . |
| 14 | Police said the patrol car had its blue light flashing and a B-test on the driver proved negative . |
| 15 | In these subjects the OR continued to occur at a high level throughout training , a result suggesting that a stimulus that fails to predict its consequences reliably will continue to receive some form of processing . |
| 16 | Speculation that the colt was ‘ got at ’ before he trailed in 10th behind stable-mate Commander In Chief was ended when the Jockey Club announced that a dope test proved negative . |
| 17 | CAMPAIGNERS for regular Sunday racing got another shot in the arm yesterday when the Jockey Club announced that a point-to-point meeting will be held on April 25 next year . |
| 18 | The vocabulary required is rapidly and easily established through interaction between signers , clearly with a shared grammar , recourse to mime and a percentage of shared vocabulary . |
| 19 | The Civil Justice Review recommended that a system of court control of case progress should be introduced in an effort to reduce the delay produced by pre-trial procedure , which is the major area of delay . |
| 20 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 21 | A company has banned its staff from wearing wedding rings after a worker lost a finger when her ring caught in machinery . |
| 22 | Already evidence exists of underprovision of respite care : one recent study reported that a quarter of carers had not had a holiday for more than five years , and another found that 40% of carers could not take a break when they wanted . |
| 23 | Indeed it is not such a great tragedy to discover that a pet cat is deaf , although there is a sad weakening of the intimate communication system that cat owners and their cats enjoy sharing . |
| 24 | His big break came when a neighbour in Herne Hill pointed out an advertisement in the Daily Telegraph ; the English Opera Group wanted a boy soprano to star in Benjamin Britten 's opera The Turn of the Screw . |
| 25 | The findings of this study show that a number of patients with sclerosing cholangitis also have biliary tract calculi . |
| 26 | If more shakes are needed then a gradual increase in potency occurs until a saturation point arrives and presumably only intensification takes place . |
| 27 | The Basildon result seemed but a straw to clutch at . |
| 28 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 29 | The Revenue stated that a decision on this issue could only be made in the light of all the facts of a particular case . |
| 30 | Violence flared when a car ploughed into a crowd after the West Indian Carnival in Leeds , injuring six people . |