Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 2 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 3 | Not only did the sturdy lock crown a storming performance by bullocking over for a try in the final minute , he undoubtedly played himself into a Lions place . |
| 4 | The Teifi Valley Sports and Leisure Centre Management Committee is a group which renovated a disused woollen mill and turned it into a sports and leisure centre . |
| 5 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 6 | She contacted me through a friends , that 's the way most people contact me . |
| 7 | Detective Sergeant Cedric Jones said Mr Banks hanged himself from a hifi speaker bracket on his bedroom wall . |
| 8 | I folded myself into a police car , dragging Susan after me . |
| 9 | She initially mistook him for a police officer as he was wearing a police-style anorak , white shirt and black tie . |
| 10 | He saw himself as a ladies ’ man , when in his cups , a troubadour from Provence . ’ |
| 11 | The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve . |
| 12 | they took him to a police station where they miraculously found 15g of cannabis . |
| 13 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 14 | He reminded her of a clothes peg-selling or paper-flower-hawking gipsy , who would raid the henhouse or seduce the maids or steal the washing from the line or all three together . |
| 15 | I organised it for a boys ’ club . |
| 16 | After another series of battles with the employment exchange , the Royal National Institute for the Blind and various principals of local technical colleges , I eventually got myself onto a TOPS typing course at a college in south-west London . |
| 17 | Forest envisage the return of Webb , who left them in a Pounds 1.5 million deal three years ago , as a crucial step along the road to safety . |
| 18 | However , resentment from those who had learned the trade through the proper apprenticeship forced him into a debtors ' prison in 1738 . |