Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fled after calling at a house where the vehicle was blocking a narrow country lane . |
| 2 | ‘ It ranged from going to a new swimming pool with a whirly slide to going to the National Gallery . |
| 3 | The couple were wined and dined before retiring to a plush suite for Valentine 's night . |
| 4 | This was Pathfinders to Mars , a six-episode production , again by Messrs Hulke and Paice , which opted for prerecording in a bid to retain the sanity of Director Guy Verney . |
| 5 | High on the moorland wilds , ancient travellers told of meeting with a mysterious stranger who would offer them a golden goblet of wine . |
| 6 | ‘ Ooooh ! ’ he added with feeling as a bramble raked his shoulder . |
| 7 | On another occasion , he dissuaded from listening to a hare-brained proposal for a military take-over of the government . |
| 8 | Civilised men , possessed of considerable intellect , as he was , could generally control their lust and even deny it when it was felt in response to a woman who was either despised or prevented from reciprocating for a variety of reasons , but they could not always control their emotions . |
| 9 | My story , A Pair of Yellow Lilies , came from looking at a double-stemmed lily in our conservatory . |
| 10 | Mr Ashdown reaffirmed his willingness to be flexible and to compromise if it came to negotiating with a minority government of either hue . |
| 11 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 12 | I also want to show how Moore 's genius consisted of moving from a small object , a pre-Columbian sculpture , a piece of rock or a sea shell , towards large-scale sculpture . ’ |
| 13 | The auditory task consisted of listening to a random list of numbers and repeating them as they were presented . |
| 14 | This consisted of going down a river , rapids and all , in a caving system , armed with only a wetsuit and a rubber ring . |
| 15 | Spittals barked before pausing for a reply . |
| 16 | There they rested before continuing in a slow trickle of delicious sensation to the neck of her blouse . |
| 17 | Although Wren 's celebrated dome was not , in fact molested , the high-rise guidelines focused solely upon picturesque views and not upon symbolism ; with the result that St Paul 's is no longer the crowning achievement of the city , but dwarfed to seeming like a pimple upon a buttock . |
| 18 | Fiver looked as though he were about to speak , but then shook his ears and turned to nibbling at a dandelion . |
| 19 | He celebrated by embarking on a fishing trip to the Bahamas where he reinjured a knee and was subjected to micro-surgery to remove a floating hunk of cartilage . |
| 20 | Who ever heard of negotiating through a fax ? |
| 21 | As chairman of the Slovak Social Democratic Party in Czechoslovakia 's eastern region , he never tired of fighting for a common state of Czechs and Slovaks . |
| 22 | The letter started by saying that ‘ permission can not be given ’ but finished by calling for a site meeting ( a most peculiar letter really ) . |
| 23 | Giolitti also harnessed the nationalist fervour that still existed by embarking on a colonial war for Libya . |
| 24 | But although he talked of acting as a craft , he took no trouble over it . ’ |
| 25 | Most speakers did this , but some still persisted in reading from a prepared script without raising their heads from the lectern . |
| 26 | During exchanges with the magician , John confessed to appearing in a school play as a fairy and he has , not unexpectedly , taken a fair amount of stick back at work . |
| 27 | One passenger survived by escaping through a hole in the fuselage as the plane broke up . |
| 28 | They started by working on a property while they were carrying on other employment , and then turning that property into hotel accommodation . |
| 29 | Paul rode without speaking for a minute or two , listening absently to the strident cries of unseen birds in the tangled roof of the tropical forest . |
| 30 | I even resorted to going to a hairdresser who guaranteed that I 'd emerge with dead straight hair . |