Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
| 2 | She moved like into a house , you know . |
| 3 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 4 | NORWICH moved to within a point of the top of the table in a scrappy match against relegation-haunted Oldham — but looked a long way short of genuine championship class . |
| 5 | The inquest was local , held in the parish hall and presided over by a doctor from the big resort town further down the lake . |
| 6 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 7 | The eighteenth-century oil of Wicken Fen by an artist whose indecipherable signature , peered at through a microscope , had provided so many shared moments of happy conjecture . |
| 8 | And they shouted at in a while they saw it coming up again , they give another warning . |
| 9 | ‘ A method of poisoning which I learnt of during a sojourn in Bulgaria . |
| 10 | He came with with a rector to Llaneilian church . |
| 11 | She might came in in a minute . |
| 12 | I remember erm one morning he came in in a bit of erm he was obviously very annoyed about something and er , when he was in those sort of moods he used to expect erm all sort of reports to be presented and er he wanted er statistics which nobody else had ever thought of and erm Arthur who as I have s hinted before was erm really my sort of guardian angel he , he sort of er did a great deal for me . |
| 13 | This unusual remark came from under a cow . |
| 14 | Nearly three-quarters of the boys who were apprenticed to cutlers in and around Sheffield between 1650 and 1724 came from within a 15-mile radius of their new homes and only 4 per cent migrated more than 40 miles . |
| 15 | As for the incomers , about 108 freemen ( 47·2 per cent ) were immigrants who came from within a 20-mile radius , 75 ( 29·3 per cent ) came from between 20 and 50 miles and 73 ( 28·5 per cent ) came from further afield . |
| 16 | Nearly half of these poorer people came from within a 20-mile radius , but some of the others came long distances . |
| 17 | The largest group of immigrants came from within a 5-mile radius , but almost as many came from 5–10 miles and as many again from beyond 20 miles ; only half this number came from between 10 and 20 miles . |
| 18 | Over 40 per cent of Preston 's immigrants came from within a 10-mile radius and only about 30 per cent had come in from more than 30 miles away . |
| 19 | The Prince of Wales came to with a jolt . |
| 20 | When she came to with a start she found they were in the car park below the ruins of the castle in Haverfordwest . |
| 21 | She came to for a bit when we brought her into the light , but I had difficulty following what she said . |
| 22 | I came to in a taxi , my painful head on a woman 's lap . |
| 23 | And one situation I came across as a consequence of the N H S reforms , was nurses on a maternity ward undergoing a work study . |
| 24 | According to a number of reliable witnesses the assailant was a tall man in a grey coat walking towards Mahoney , a short woman in a green hat hiding in a doorway , a masked figure in the back seat of a car and an unseen person who fired from behind a parking sign . |
| 25 | The problems associated with the battle of the forms arise because the common law principles governing the formation of contracts are based on the concept of a bargain arrived at through a process of negotiation , while the whole purpose of standard conditions is to minimise or exclude the process of negotiation . |
| 26 | This agreement , arrived at in a period of relative stability in international air travel , had been thrown into question with the arrival — and more pertinently , the collapse — of Freddie Laker 's cut-price service . |
| 27 | The emphasis placed on current practice could be described as self-sufficiency ; an ability to make and act upon decisions arrived at from a position of sound professional judgement , decisions arrived at independently of doctors but complementary to their assessment of patients . |
| 28 | And my old uncle , the priest in Belfast I lived with as a boy . |
| 29 | He will continue to study for his external law degree at the University of London , but does not intend to train as a barrister — an idea that he toyed with for a while . |
| 30 | We were delighted to be on land again , and while the men looked for a river or a lake , I walked for about a kilometre away from the beach . |