Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was no real panic but when we landed and got off the plane the window looked like a spider 's web . |
| 2 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 3 | Rye stood out from most other towns in that it became for a while a Puritan ‘ Common Wealth ’ , a centre of social experiment and rigorous public morality under its two vicars , Joseph Beeton and his successor John Allen . |
| 4 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 5 | His chief undertaking , Fowey Consols , became for a time the second largest producer in Cornwall . |
| 6 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 7 | Constable McLennan conveyed through the secretary the fact that a Neighbourhood Watch was about to be established covering Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue and a preliminary meeting would be held in the Village Hall on Monday 25th January . |
| 8 | Constable McLennan conveyed through the secretary the fact that a Neighbourhood Watch was about to be established covering Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue and a preliminary meeting would be held in the Village Hall on Monday 25th January . |
| 9 | Chris Nicholls from Plymouth asked for a Turbo The Tortoise infinite lives poke , so thanks go to W Keenan from Tyne and Wear for his/her help . |
| 10 | When the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales , and the Gwent and Brecknock Wildlife Trusts met council officers and their advisers they asked for an assurance the council would proceed with the bill ( 2 ) . |
| 11 | Ranteallo simply looked sheepish when we first asked for an explanation the following morning , and it was left to Werner Meyer to give us an explanation , when he finally arrived to join us . |
| 12 | Climbing the 60 , narrow , twisting steps from the nave to the ringing chamber left me worn out — but when I staggered through the door the chamber was packed . |
| 13 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 14 | We stopped for the night a mile down the road just out of sight . |
| 15 | When Herve charged through the door the Italian was lying on his bed reading a porn comic . |
| 16 | There were drawings , too , rolled aside out of the way , and ranged along the bench a great array of tools , mallets , chisels and punches , from the coarsest to the needle-fine , all their handles polished and worn with use . |
| 17 | When the caretaker eventually ventured into the room the following day , all was as usual . |
| 18 | Alan , Carolyn and Christopher moved into a flat the September after he was born . |
| 19 | In our computer models in Chapter 3 , we deliberately built into the computer the basic ingredients of cumulative selection . |
| 20 | In the near distance to our rear the guns had started shelling the German positions , the shells uncomfortably low as they rushed overhead and crashed into an area a short distance away . |
| 21 | The incident with the car had taken her mind off Luke , but as she changed into a housecoat a sudden idea flashed across her mind . |
| 22 | I found it incomprehensible that anyone should want to reproduce Cedric , and as I gaped into the receiver a frightening vision floated before me of eight little Cedrics all with his complaint . |
| 23 | Sure enough , in the morning , a small round table holding an appetising array of titbits rose from the floor a minute or two before Susan and Michael had finished their exercise routine . |
| 24 | Embarrassed , she drew from a shelf a book on Møn . |
| 25 | To that end , again we will probably be stronger in that area but t to that end we formed a group of partners who were going to specifically target er that that market place er we drew from the triple A practice and tax practice and M C S. Looking at the products and the reviews to get into that first those those clients . |
| 26 | He explained his vision of primacy stemmed from the way the Pope can sometimes speak for all Christians in a way that no other bishop can . |
| 27 | Partly no doubt because Bob had been brought up in Thornton Heath , he was popular with local fans , but his popularity also stemmed from the fact the he made or scored vital goals precisely when they were needed . |
| 28 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |
| 29 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 30 | 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 . |