Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , he could n't see the body , and then he noticed the tell-tale blanket draped over a shape on the floor . |
| 2 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 3 | Her heart tumbled down a stairway . |
| 4 | At the end of last year , and with the help of its publishers ' advisory committee , the Council 's Libraries , Books and Information Division drew up a book promotion policy . |
| 5 | After the Allied landings took place , that same month , Franco 's controlled press continued to assure readers that the Axis still had the upper hand , and the Spanish Foreign Ministry drew up a plan entitled " Bases for Political Negotiations with Germany " . |
| 6 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 7 | If the damage occurred over a period of time , there is no cover . |
| 8 | In the Newtonian sense of work , as force applied over a distance , land animals do little in getting from here to there . |
| 9 | Thom 's research centred round a method of calculation of flow problems , using a process of continuous approximation to final values of quantities at the intersections of a square grid covering the field of study . |
| 10 | In the same way , the laws of thermodynamics laid down a framework within which engines and refrigerators operate . |
| 11 | This was a peculiar thing to do , because in 1963 in the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor had ruled that a free pardon wiped out a conviction and all its consequences , and the accused was to be regarded as having been acquitted . |
| 12 | Leader of the ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform movement that was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968 , Dubcek was 70 when he died in Prague , and had been in intensive care after his car plunged off a road in heavy rain on September 1 . |
| 13 | Television celebrity , Leslie Crowther has been allowed home from hospital , four months after his car crashed off a motorway . |
| 14 | The place was empty , but for a cloak-shrouded figure bent over a rosary to the right of the door , and a man sitting alone in the front row . |
| 15 | During the 1980s the college built up a deficit of over £1 million because for several years its grant was not increased . |
| 16 | She fumbled for the torch , and thumbed over the button with a chilly hand , and the cone of light spilled over a man 's body , face-down in the shallow water , glistening under the abrupt brightness in violent projections of black and white . |
| 17 | The internal filter usually consists of a pump/powerhead mounted over a chamber filled with foam ( though other media can be used ) . |
| 18 | As she put down her cases a large shiny 1935 Armstrong Siddeley car came around a bend in the station drive and braked to a halt a short distance from her . |
| 19 | ‘ The roof came off a woman 's house , and we all helped to save what we could . |
| 20 | Her glance played over a room which was no longer her own . |
| 21 | Nearly half of the episcopal hierarchy refused the new oaths , and as a result opened up a schism in the Anglican Church . |
| 22 | Big confrontation in Parliament today when the opposition threw down a challenge … they want a head to head on march 27 … no we 're not talking politics … we 're talking sport and the boat race |
| 23 | Sam the barman dug out a pint and gave Milland a couple of adding machines in change . |
| 24 | A MAJOR talking point after the Second Division promotion clash was why Sheffield referee John Key turned down a goal that would have shattered Middlesbrough 's unbeaten home League record . |
| 25 | The car swung round a corner into the dusty main road . |
| 26 | Over the sink at the other end there was a shelf with cups , saucers , and plates ; a saucepan hung on a hook and there was a kettle on the oil stove . |
| 27 | This study followed up a cohort of 386 patients aged 65 + for six months after their discharge home . |
| 28 | A good example of such a breach of secrecy followed an incident in 1979 , when the until-then-secret ‘ MUFTI ’ team of specially trained prison officers in riot gear broke up a protest demonstration by prisoners in D Wing of Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 29 | A motorway workman was killed when a wheel flew off a lorry and hit him . |
| 30 | Yesterday a wheel flew off a lorry and hit a car . |