Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |
| 2 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 3 | To put the icing on the cake , Newsboy — that 's Charles Fawcus ( left ) — weighed in with a 29-1 double yesterday through Jdaayel and Our Rita ( 5-1 ) . |
| 4 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 5 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 6 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 7 | The Ely four , Stewart Seymour , Kevin King and David Bell and skipped by Greg Harlow , trailed 12-1 after five ends , bounced back with a five and spent the next two hours in an effort to catch up . |
| 8 | Although the Germans bounced back with a 4-1 defeat of Uruguay four days later , the Brazilian experience has left its scars . |
| 9 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 10 | Faldo just stayed in touch thanks to putts of 15 and 30 feet at the 14th and 16th for a round of 69 , while Ballesteros felt he had been robbed when he came in with a 68 . |
| 11 | Lyle , who has missed the cut twice in his only four European Tour appearances this year , came in with a 68 and declared himself well-satisfied . |
| 12 | The Janetstown , Thurso , environmental health officer was broken twice after two short fights and stepped up to a 70 lb wire trace with 10 feet of 200 lb nylon as a rubbing leader and baited up with a 1 lb coalfish deadbait on a size 8/0 hook . |
| 13 | They came up with a 230 horse power sports cruiser happy to have me aboard . |
| 14 | Here — ’ He rummaged in the pearl-studded evening bag and came up with a twenty pound note . |
| 15 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 16 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 17 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 18 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ We were quite surprised when it came back as a 15 after all the controversy . |
| 19 | Battling Boro came back from a 1–0 half-time deficit to take the semi-final into extra time through a fine goal by Bernie Slaven . |
| 20 | In midweek , Northern Rail ( Mick O'Brien , Jimmy Knowles , Tommy Garner ) came back from a 20 deficit to win 3-2 against Hornby Road Sports , who suffered their first setback of the season . |
| 21 | The ketchup bottle cascaded out into a million glass fragments which showered down in slow motion ; floating and turning lazily like snowflakes , the light shivering in them like jewels . |
| 22 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 23 | The Guardian , The Observer and The Sunday Times are seeking a ruling that temporary injunctions handed down by a 3-2 House of Lords majority in 1987 , banning publication of details from the memoirs of an ex-MI5 officer , Peter Wright , were unnecessary prior restraints on free speech that breached Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 24 | Tony Underwood raced in for a 70 metre try in Leicester 's 30-14 win at London Irish . |
| 25 | Ballesteros , who has won the title four times , opened up with a 66 and enjoyed a comfortable lunch , sitting on a cushion of a five-hole lead . |
| 26 | In Brockton , he turned up with a dozen fellow-students to revitalise local politics from the bottom up . |
| 27 | So Canberra turned round with a 12-0 lead cut to 12-10 , knowing they were not going to get everything their own way . |
| 28 | But he missed a tricky black and Parrott stepped in with a 48 clearance to pink to lead 3–0 . |
| 29 | already certain of relegation , signed off with a 13–6 win over Towcestrians . |
| 30 | They followed up with a 63–8 annihilation of viables and then beat Tadley 41–33 . |