Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Child Poverty Action Group , in their comments on the 1975 Act when it was still in bill form , stressed the link between poverty and children being received into or committed to care , and the fact that the latter often occurred because of a lack of housing or day-care facilities . |
| 2 | I wandered as in a dream through the gate and across the road . |
| 3 | They moved as in a dance . |
| 4 | Rogers always seemed as unlike a comedy film producer as Kenneth Horne differed from the conventional idea of comedian . |
| 5 | Scottish champion Jim Mailer was not included in the main draw ; Bruce Flockhart had to pull out because of a leg injury ; and Gordon and Jillian Haldane withdrew because of a family bereavement . |
| 6 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |
| 7 | An inquest jury has decided that a mentally handicapped boy scalded to death in a bath died because of a lack of care . |
| 8 | The scheme was continued with finance from HIDB but the level of input and achievement dwindled because of a change in the curriculum of rural Highland Schools . |
| 9 | ‘ I improved because of a lot of practice , ’ said Geoff . |
| 10 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 11 | Simon Dunne , Claire Langley and Rachel Walker , all 16 , and Dean Sayer , 17 , died while on a course at the St Albans Centre in Lyme Regis , Dorset , in March . |
| 12 | THREE hundred Liverpool football fans are expected to gather to pay tribute to supporter Dennis Corbett , who died while on a trip to watch his team play in Moscow . |
| 13 | I was more than encouraged by this , and even more uplifted when in a space of less than 5 yards , an Edward VI ( 1547–53 ) shilling came to light . |
| 14 | He watered the jars with distilled water once a day and the mushrooms appeared after about a month ‘ if you were lucky ’ . |
| 15 | But when he looked round at her he smiled as at a companion-general in a war . |
| 16 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |