Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [no cls] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He found that the proportion of over-70s registered for a proxy/postal vote varied from 0.7 per cent to 25 per cent in different parts of the country ; this variation has little or nothing to do with geographical or demographic factors . |
2 | The move came after a 2,000,000-tonne shortfall in Soviet oil deliveries , which was normally 13 million tonnes annually . |
3 | Commodore sold a staggering amount of 64s over the Christmas/January sales period , the majority of which being the Terminator 2 packs ( which came with a T2 cart , but no cassette deck ) . |
4 | At that time Clare , who was a British Horse Society riding instructor , was teaching freelance , and she heard of a 15hh palomino called Herbie who was being offered on loan . |
5 | When they came back to Britain they embarked on a 1,200-mile tandem ride across the Dolomites and the Alps to raise funds for the Alexandra clinic . |
6 | I asked in a you-don't-have-to-tell-me-anything-about-Carol voice , with an I'm-on-your-side sort of sigh . |
7 | ( An example of this was the author 's uncle , S/L Charles Reif RAAF ( Retd ) , a graduate of 2 Flying Course , the second RAAF post-war aircrew course , who flew as a F/Sgt navigator/bomb-aimer with 1 Squadron in 1950 to 1952 . |
8 | Erm the J C one we 'll have to try and deal with that again as a separate issue but I do n't , I mean the amount of time we 're losing from high levels of sickness we talked about a c couple of meetings or so ago , about the absence levels with some people , we 've just got ta make sure we crack that on the head , we 're just haemorrhaging money , the fact that it is not just hours it 's money . |
9 | Paul Sansome kept the visitors in the match until Neil McNab netted with a 20yard effort in the 77th minute . |
10 | So what would be what would you try first if it started with a c sound ? |
11 | The samples analyzed on a 1.2% agarose gel , the fragments purified and sequenced . |
12 | PCR was performed as described earlier , and the samples analyzed on a 1.2% agarose gel . |
13 | houses in them days , if you worked on a p work on a place , you had to live on a place , you see , if you got the sack you had to get out of 'em . |
14 | The auditorium of the Holloway Odeon hit by a V2 rocket , August 1944 |
15 | I went from a er boy 's school and all that that implied at the time in England , strict discipline , uniforms , that sort of thing , to er High School , a mixed High School in Ohio where the atmosphere was totally different , much more relaxed , much more friendly . |
16 | I recently completed in a 10K race . |
17 | Thus reduction in pH of saliva from pH 8.2 to 7.2 accounted for a 2.2% reduction in amylase detection ( p=0.004 ) . |
18 | Mr Miller said of a C$450m loan due last month on O&Y 's 68-storey Scotia Plaza building in central Toronto : ‘ The bankers have not agreed to extend or to push O&Y into default on that loan . ’ |
19 | We turn it er turn them I said with a er cutting tool . |
20 | Boldly ignoring the Shavian prescription , Nancy Meckler 's highly original Shared Experience production of Heartbreak House at the Riverside Studios has the quality of a fragmented dream , only occasionally marred by a sock-it-to-em over-emphasis . |
21 | And if it ended with a c sound what would you want |