Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Troc we had a list of troublemakers , plus police photographs , nicknames and descriptions , above the cashier 's grille . |
| 2 | This meant that while from our side they appeared cautious and reactionary , for the Board they provided a cheerful dawn chorus to which it could always confidently wake up . |
| 3 | By the time they pulled down the steep road to the caravan on the loughside he had a headache and a mouth like death . |
| 4 | But before she could finish the sentence she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned to find Rune looming over her , glass in hand . |
| 5 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 6 | Later in the afternoon I saw a meal for all 600 prisoners being cooked in one gigantic iron pot over a blazing fire . |
| 7 | In the afternoon he had a 34 for the first nine and I thought it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 8 | The three defendants were formally cleared by the judge , but then straight after the case they issued a statement admitting they had intended to remove animals from a vehicle and set fire to it . |
| 9 | As I opened the case I heard a groaning , splintering noise , which caused me to experience extreme pain as the bridge flew off and whacked me on the side of the head ! |
| 10 | Returning to the text he circled a structure |
| 11 | Despite thirty-six hours in the field they look a cheerful bunch , all prepared to swap ‘ war stories ’ in the mess after a clean-up before going home . |
| 12 | But then , in the far corner of the field I found a medieval buckle . |
| 13 | As Delaney and Forster hit the deck they caught a fleeting glimpse of the crazed man going for it again . |
| 14 | Back in the kitchen he found a stove-enamel jug . |
| 15 | Because of the responsibility they had a pound was no covering it as far as they were concerned . |
| 16 | In the churchyard he saw a new headstone , on which was written : |
| 17 | On the way to the camp we passed a boulder where Tony and I competed for rock climbing idiot of the evening . |
| 18 | I walked this afternoon from my room to the School and in the lane I met a cat carrying a hedge sparrow . |
| 19 | For the male it means a vasectomy — the cutting or tying of the male 's sperm ducts . |
| 20 | As he turned the door handle to enter the building he saw a storm-trooper come out of one of the side rooms . |
| 21 | Around the corner of the building he saw a figure on a bike speeding away . |
| 22 | Er on the sand at Grimness Now there 's hardly any sand there then , you had difficulty finding a patch , not not like where you 've the huge area now at the Barrier And so er I I I know that in the Hope they had a bigger one , and I believe in the Wyvell area they had one as well , you see ? |
| 23 | Within the convent he faced a group of unruly , ill-disciplined monks ; his tenants at Sandwich were ousted from their houses , and at one point the citizens of Canterbury rose in revolt and threatened to blockade the monks . |
| 24 | The story we heard a few moments ago concerns one of the miracles that God performed as a part of Elisha 's ministry in Israel . |
| 25 | To finish off the story she married a millionaire in Tennessee , so she 's OK . ’ |
| 26 | Secondly , at the end of the story he engineers a fall of quails that drives the people mad with greed , and turns quickly to plague in their mouths . |
| 27 | Back in the cottage she took a long , hot bath , but the water failed to ease the tension in her body , even though she lay there for what seemed like an eternity , trying to will away the effects of the afternoon . |
| 28 | When this cloud settles on the skin it causes a red rash , but it is no more than an irritation and certainly nothing to justify the terrible image of this animal that has been so relentlessly fostered by cheap novels and films . |
| 29 | And in the last twenty minutes of the play they get a emotional kick in the stomach and it 's gut wrenching . |
| 30 | Shortly after reading the play she paid a visit to the poet . |