Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 2 | Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car . |
| 3 | Proposal to Set up a Cook-chill System |
| 4 | ‘ Look , ’ he sighed , ‘ I gave that sort of thing up a while back . |
| 5 | Dollar interest rates cracked the price of gold down a dozen years ago when they were hoisted to 20 per cent . |
| 6 | For he ensured a replay at Inver Park on Tuesday night by ruling out a Ron Manley effort two minutes from time . |
| 7 | There was a coconut shy , a candy floss stall , and one where you got a prize for fishing up a coloured celluloid duck out of a moat of dirty grey water . |
| 8 | The eight-man team train by hauling a barrel of concrete up a telegraph pole using a pulley system — and then digging in and holding the 810 kilo load aloft for up to half an hour . |
| 9 | They wo n't take a slightest bit of notice … and will use the paper to role up a joint . |
| 10 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 11 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |
| 12 | Ponies are , of course , considerably cheaper to keep and the hardier types that live out all year round cut out a huge amount of work , too . |
| 13 | The FDIC was already weak from helping to bail out a large number of savings and loan institutions ( the so-called " thrifts " ) , some of which had lost large sums through misguided speculation or outright corruption [ see p. 36843 ; 37412 ] . |
| 14 | One is she 's very interested in the occult , erm , she actually practices tarot card readings , and what she calls the crystal oracle , and she gave me a brief explanation , which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er , but I 'm not going to push me |