Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies .
2 Letters like these are worthy of recording , especially when the writer from Camberley finished with a p.s. that concludes ‘ As a satisfied customer , needless to say I have not even looked at any other . ’
3 ‘ We subscribed to a Customs and Excise newsletter to keep pace with the changes — and things were happening so fast they even brought out a special Christmas edition .
4 At last he sent for a chaprassi and sent him with me to look for something , but on the way I found nice Mr Dickensen , an American from the University in Rangoon .
5 She thought for a minutes and said : " Yes , you do have a look of a Renoir lady , sometimes " That 's a nice way of saying Fat is Beautiful .
6 In 1991 , it appeared in a books and manuscripts sale at Phillips where it was bought jointly by the Fine Arts Society and the dealer Michael Whiteway for £13,000 .
7 So in 1896 , the new Boys School , was opened , and the Creed Street School continued as a Girls and Infants School , altered at a cost of £225 .
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