Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 2 | Rye stood out from most other towns in that it became for a while a Puritan ‘ Common Wealth ’ , a centre of social experiment and rigorous public morality under its two vicars , Joseph Beeton and his successor John Allen . |
| 3 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 4 | His chief undertaking , Fowey Consols , became for a time the second largest producer in Cornwall . |
| 5 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 6 | Chris Nicholls from Plymouth asked for a Turbo The Tortoise infinite lives poke , so thanks go to W Keenan from Tyne and Wear for his/her help . |
| 7 | When the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales , and the Gwent and Brecknock Wildlife Trusts met council officers and their advisers they asked for an assurance the council would proceed with the bill ( 2 ) . |
| 8 | Ranteallo simply looked sheepish when we first asked for an explanation the following morning , and it was left to Werner Meyer to give us an explanation , when he finally arrived to join us . |
| 9 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 10 | Alan , Carolyn and Christopher moved into a flat the September after he was born . |
| 11 | In the near distance to our rear the guns had started shelling the German positions , the shells uncomfortably low as they rushed overhead and crashed into an area a short distance away . |
| 12 | The incident with the car had taken her mind off Luke , but as she changed into a housecoat a sudden idea flashed across her mind . |
| 13 | Embarrassed , she drew from a shelf a book on Møn . |
| 14 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 15 | M. Grimaud , interested by these strangers , hoping to amuse their English girl , drew on an envelope a sailor-like map demonstrating the approach to the Mas Rose from Vaison and the Mas Cabestainh . |
| 16 | The defendant , Ballay and another employee of the shop , named Rai , were arrested and later tried on an indictment the fourth and fifth counts in which charged all three with theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 in respect of the two transactions . |
| 17 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 18 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 19 | The IMF noted as an objective the reduction of Hungary 's current-account deficit in trade with the West , from $1,400 million in 1989 to $550 million in 1990 . |
| 20 | The dramatic announcement came after a key No 10 meeting . |
| 21 | And after what seemed like an eternity the door opened — and she stared in surprise and disbelief at the tall black-haired man with the blue , blue eyes . |
| 22 | She woke with a start the next morning , confused and disorientated . |
| 23 | This was a much more comfortable victory for Kelburne than the score suggests for two of Torbrex 's goals were scored late in the game by Gordon Shepherd whose second strike came from a penalty a minute from time . |
| 24 | Even as he lifted from a cupboard the freshly ironed shirts , about which he was so particular , he was already mentally back in England . |
| 25 | Once , he galloped straight towards them but came to a stop a few yards away , rearing on his hind legs before continuing his wild circling . |
| 26 | So as we came to a stop the hatch was opened and this young fellow put one foot on the throttle quadrant , another on my shoulder and the next one on the top of my helmet and he was out . |
| 27 | As soon as the propellers came to a standstill the passengers disembarked onto the parking bay in front of a small terminal building . |
| 28 | The project came to a head a year ago , when Ulrich Seifert , VW 's head of research , and Herbert Schaefer , VW 's design chief , commissioned the designs from Switzerland 's Art Centre College . |
| 29 | Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom . |
| 30 | It all came to a head the day a fire engine could n't get down the High Street for parked cars . |