Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shower unit caught fire while a woman was using it at her home in Weston Crescent , Norton . |
| 2 | Certainly , many imagined life after a defeat would be substantially worse than under Nazism , and this notion continued to form a negative base of Hitler 's support . |
| 3 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 4 | Had Alice not warned of men who took advantage if a maid was compliant ? |
| 5 | The director and his former leading lady took action after a court ruled the case could be televised . |
| 6 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |
| 7 | The front-runner has kept his ill-starred record , in Brown 's words , as ‘ the scandal-a-week candidate ’ with his recent admission after years of slippery circumlocution that he smoked marijuana when a student at Oxford 22 years ago . |