Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FAXgrabber made about a tenth of the errors . |
| 2 | Smith drew for a 4 at the first . |
| 3 | In the former study the transition occurred within a homopolymeric AT sequence , while in the second a GpA junction ( of type XS ) was concerned . |
| 4 | I peered at a few of them , identifying Filmer and Daffodil 's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones , the Lorrimores ' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay , and the Youngs ' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock . |
| 5 | Earnings crashed by a third to 41p . |
| 6 | A career that began at Stoke City in 1930 , he played as a professional for more than 30 years . |
| 7 | She rejected about a dozen of these sample shades before she mentioned that they cost sixty or seventy pence each . |
| 8 | So , a victory for Oxford United ; it came after a few of the supporters had left the ground , it came in injury time — Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil , reporting on the match , a very happy Nick Harris . |
| 9 | The only reply was a muffled crunching as Cassowary disposed of a beak-full of berries , leaves and twigs . |
| 10 | On one occasion , the car drove inside a coned off area of roadworks . |
| 11 | Mark Tantum , a senior lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg that a bank robber who turned from a mechanical to an electronic chainsaw to open the cash-box deserved different treatment from the hacker who simply accessed computer systems . |
| 12 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 13 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 14 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
| 15 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 16 | Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department . |
| 17 | But he twice went into the water and finished with a seven for 69 to go back to nine under . |
| 18 | It began with a three at the 10th , where he hit a four-iron to 20ft and holed the putt . |
| 19 | After the break Duffy knocked in a 92 in less than 6 minutes and a quickfire 83 , taking only 3 minutes 46 seconds , clinched the match . |
| 20 | Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June . |
| 21 | Park Foods is in fine fettle after selling off all none-core business identified in a refocusing exercise a move which has clearly had a beneficial effect on profits which soared by a third from £7.7m to £10.3m before tax at the end of March this year . |
| 22 | Jan Carlzon hailed as a visionary for his turnaround at SAS airlines , has spent his entire career ( beginning in 1968 ) in the travel business , since 1978 in the airline industry . |
| 23 | Lewis , who served his apprenticeship in Scotland before heading south to Sellafield , worked as a chargehand before becoming a foreman in charge of a team of 20 painters . |
| 24 | Margaret Godfrey worked as a cleaner for Oxford University . |
| 25 | Margaret Godfrey worked as a cleaner for Oxford University . |
| 26 | Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched . |
| 27 | The London firms ' revenues plummeted by a third from 1989 's level . |
| 28 | Abroad , the German princes who had reformed their churches along Lutheran lines saw Henry as a potential ally against their common enemy , the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , but demanded as a preliminary to a political alliance that he accept their Protestant statement of faith , the Augsburg Confession of 1530 . |
| 29 | The biggest risk factor of all is an inherited predisposition , which is why life insurance salesmen run a mile when they hear that your dad died of a coronary at 35 . |
| 30 | They seem to be using repro-antique furniture : and remember that an 1850 sideboard looked like a repro in 1850 . |