Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 14 , 1989 , an agreement was eventually initialled which provided for a customs union with the EC whereby industrial goods would flow freely between Andorra and the EC but the EC 's external tariffs would be applied by Andorra to third countries . |
| 2 | The Sierra Cosworth was chased along the A5 before it crashed into a police roadblock near Milton Keynes . |
| 3 | The assailant , a man , fled in a sports car . |
| 4 | The four were Donna Maguire , arrested in Turnhout , Belgium , on June 16 , who was wanted in connexion with attacks in West Germany in 1989 ; Gerard Majella Harte , arrested over the Dutch border on June 16 , after evading Belgian police near Turnhout , with a man provisionally named as Michael Collins who escaped in handcuffs but was later picked up over the Dutch border in Chaam , on June 18 ; and Paul Hughes , who drove through a police checkpoint in Chaam on June 18 and was arrested there on June 19 . |
| 5 | On Dec. 12 a 900-kg bomb , described as one of largest ever used by the IRA , exploded outside a police station in Craigavon , injuring more than 60 people . |
| 6 | The RUC Chief Constable says his officers wo n't be bombed out of policing the province , after a massive car bomb exploded outside a police station in County Antrim . |
| 7 | The cab driver drove to a police station . |
| 8 | He drove to a Customs depot where it was sealed by Spanish Customs officers . |
| 9 | A car bomb exploded at a police station in Burgos on Aug. 17 , severely injuring one person . |
| 10 | Four of the casualties received serious injuries when the device ripped through a gents lavatory on Platform Four . |
| 11 | These jobs were soon done , and Redpath telephoned for a police car to take the cartridges and clothes to their respective experts . |
| 12 | It consisted of a Personnel Manager , two Personnel Officers , a Training Officer and three clerical staff . |
| 13 | In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station . |
| 14 | But the youngsters were found dead in their beds after she walked into a police station at the weekend . |
| 15 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked into a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 16 | A woman in her thirties has been found dead at her home after a man walked into a police station and said he wanted to talk to detectives . |
| 17 | Even after the £383m the bank got from selling a 14.9% stake in itself to the Hongkong Bank and the £1.1 billion it raised from a rights issue and the sale of its Scottish and Irish banks , Midland still struggles to keep its third-world debt provisions up to the level of its rivals . |
| 18 | Vinod Kambli ( aged 18 ) and Sachin Tendulkar ( 17 ) appear destined for full Test careers , although yesterday 's partnership of nought was 644 runs fewer than the one they shared in a schools game two years ago . |
| 19 | I made from a proms concert ‘ sometime in the '70s ’ — featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink ( just the usual orchestral Suite ) . |
| 20 | A former cabinet minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , was charged with evading ¥1.7 billion ( $12.6m ) of taxes on some ¥2.8 billion of ill-gotten gains that he made in a shares racket . |
| 21 | He worked as a sports salesman , a bingo hall caller and a fruit seller before joining the Royal Navy . |
| 22 | Mr Montignac says he discovered his ‘ method ’ while lunching in fancy European restaurants when he worked for a drugs company . |
| 23 | But as Mrs Fleetwood watched for a police car the pair stole £120 and fled . |
| 24 | Intruders broke into a doctors surgery at Thirsk . |
| 25 | It had become a real Waterloo : Alexandre collapsed into a Builders Arms ! |
| 26 | He collapsed in a police cell and died later in hospital . |
| 27 | The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court . |
| 28 | Because of a longstanding health condition , her father was not considered physically suitable for the armed forces and so he worked in a munitions factory not too far from their home . |
| 29 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 30 | As she again became distraught yesterday , Detective Superintendent Ian Whinnett sent for a police psychiatrist . |