Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not overtaking again ? ’ he protested , as she drew out beyond a cattle lorry . |
| 2 | Hundreds of travellers , parked illegally in a cattle market , moved off peacefully today … but only to a new site sixty yards away . |
| 3 | The garden was planned by professional designer Naila Green who came up with a snakes and ladders theme . |
| 4 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 5 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked in to a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 6 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 7 | While Lisabeth was mainlining Cadbury 's Bournville I rummaged around for a sports bag ( one that advertised Marlboro fags , naturally ) and began to pack a spare everything . |
| 8 | Ulster 's Theatre , 1988 , for example , really started off as a children 's playground ’ . |
| 9 | DOZENS of rock fans were arrested when fights broke out at a Guns N' Roses US concert . |
| 10 | But after Commodore cut the price by £100 , and threw in the £25 add-on TV adaptor , the Amiga took off as a games machine . |
| 11 | A telex is only a message sent electronically along a communications cable and translated into type on a piece of paper at the receiving end . |
| 12 | This proved rather funny because when we went round a sharp bend , the cupboard door flew open , the porta-potty rolled out like a cheap-thrills show , and on the next bend it rolled back in again and the door closed ! |
| 13 | Instructions I copied out from a girls ' annual for 1954 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never seen that spelled out in a women 's magazine story , or a film , or … a novel . ’ |
| 15 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
| 16 | It blossomed forth at a Managers ' meeting when ‘ somebody from Marketing ’ gave an in-depth talk on selling skills and creating opportunities to sell , using Branch data . |
| 17 | Field Marshal Montgomery wrote breezily in a services journal : ‘ If we are attacked , we use nuclear weapons in our defence . |
| 18 | When they travelled together in a police car they had driven around in silence . |
| 19 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |
| 20 | The subsequent withdrawal from empire , which flowed from these events , was carried out on a strategy set out in a Chiefs of Staff Paper which remained the military planners ' increasingly tattered bible until Roy Mason 's 1974 Defence review made British military strategy synonymous with NATO strategy . |
| 21 | The vehicle and its two occupants now stood silently in a children 's playground . |
| 22 | He was arrested on 25 November 1991 and held overnight in a police cell in Urosevac . |