Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first Wednesday morning of every month — with the exception of the months in which Easter and Christmas fell — it was the custom for the incumbent pastor to give his own account of the massacre , or read out an account left by a predecessor . |
| 2 | Someone who used bad language , for example , or refused to work , pretended sickness , or climbed over a fence instead of using the official entrance ( or , what is more likely , exit ) was deemed DISORDERLY ; he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours and other privileges were stopped . |
| 3 | Letters were lost , and time and again Charles would discover that his staff had failed to show him a document or letter , or turned down an invitation on his behalf without ever showing it to him . |
| 4 | You can work with any size of mirror , from minute to enormous , and it can be free-standing to sit on top of a dressing table or hung on a wall , as shown in the photograph on the opposite page . |
| 5 | Alternatively , buy folding chairs that could either be put away in , say , a hall cupboard and taken out when needed , or hung on a wall . |
| 6 | Considerable skill in getting plants established was also required — it is only too easy for gaps to appear , or for an odd man out in flower colour to pop up , as anyone who has ever tried to grow a complete row of vegetables or lay out a bedding plan , will know . |
| 7 | Design a colour-coordinated room , grow plants in it , or put up a bookshelf to help those 300 hours pass more quickly ! |
| 8 | Nobody has issued a fatwa or put out a contract . |
| 9 | Womenwealth is still unfunded so we ca n't respond individually or put out a catalogue to open up the market for our womens ' products . |
| 10 | Councils in other parts of the country also adopted the Manchester approach and appointed workers or set up a unit . |
| 11 | They could have published a White Paper or set up a commission of inquiry . |
| 12 | It is up to them whether they move in with Mum and Dad or set up a caravan on site until the work is finished . |
| 13 | Or set up a business ? |
| 14 | We will strengthen support for such schemes and consult about the possibility of creating a new tax incentive to encourage companies to establish or extend an ESOP or set up a co-operative . |
| 15 | Without a lemon to squeeze on to fried or grilled fish , no lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried pulses — the red lentils , the split peas — which in those days loomed so largely in our daily diet , no lemon juice to help out the stringy ewe-mutton and the ancient boiling fowls of the time , no lemon juice for pancakes , no peel to grate into cake mixtures and puddings , we felt frustrated every time we opened a cookery book or picked up a mixing bowl . |
| 16 | ‘ He must have heard something or picked up a scent but he led the rescuers to a bramble bush and the elderly man was found trapped inside . |
| 17 | Bill Potter took a glass of sherry , and shared out a bottle of sparkling wine . |
| 18 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 19 | In the end the company became frustrated by lengthy negotiations and laid down an ultimatum saying it wanted an answer by September 1988 . |
| 20 | Ms Harriet Harman , the shadow health spokesman , visited Darlington this week and laid out a vision of life under Labour . |
| 21 | Later he built a series of fine warehouses and laid out a dock estate . |
| 22 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 23 | ONE man was killed and another seriously injured yesterday when their car skidded off the road and plunged down an embankment into a tree at a popular beauty spot . |
| 24 | The coach carrying forty four American tourists on a day trip to Canterbury collided with a van and plunged down an embankment . |
| 25 | He gibbered and choked over an appeal for mercy . |
| 26 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 27 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 28 | What I think is , there 's an Iron Age settlement at the top of the Grove , and I think someone found this woman 's skull there , and made up a story about it , the way people do . ’ |
| 29 | When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret . |
| 30 | She unpegged half a dozen , and made up a bed on a pile of linen . |