Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bids for an oak standing court cabinet made in Flanders around 1520 rose to a startling FFr2.5 million ( £259,800 ; $425,000 ) , ten times its low estimate and another world record , while a more richly decorated and rich hued world cupboard with grotesque masks , Anjou work around 1600 , went for a modest FFr400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) ( estimate FFr200–250,000 ) . |
| 2 | Temperatures in the upper Tay valleys rose to an unseasonal 12C and in the high glens , millions of tonnes of fresh snow began to melt . |
| 3 | Despite the recession and the slump in consumer spending , UK publishers ' output rose by a startling 16.44% in 1992 . |
| 4 | In the past two quarters manufacturing output per man-hour fell by an annual rate of 1.1% , roughly the same as in previous recessions , but non-manufacturing productivity — a good proxy for services — rose by an annualised 1.2% compared with a typical decline of 1.5% in past recessions . |
| 5 | To me , he seemed like an average folk/pop singer/ song writer . |
| 6 | It came in a small erm small envelope . |
| 7 | And the only bit of damp I 've got is in one corner of the house but it came from a blocked erm pipe . |
| 8 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 9 | So it was n't the fact that he 'd cut back on government it 's just that the government came , the spending came at a different er point in the , in the political structure . |
| 10 | The keeper excelled himself to keep out an Elliott header , but he was stranded again in injury time when Loram fired in a precise 25yarder which went in off the post . |
| 11 | New England in the Fall is quite as beautiful as everyone says but the weather is fickle — we arrived in a sunny 82°F and left in a foggy 36°F . |
| 12 | Cos her sons had got married and she lived in a little bu flat , bungalow rather . |
| 13 | Attempts to increase gold production at Venterpost proved unsuccessful and with the yield falling , the mine tumbled from a near R2m profit to a R3.26 net loss . |
| 14 | The team started with an existing 2.5Gbps and used time-division multiplexing to up the capacity of 10Gbps , and then used wavelength division multiplexing to double capacity again to the full 20Gbps speed . |
| 15 | Leary 's series of soundbites for the channel led to a massed A&R scramble for his signature — Def American , home of Andrew Dice Clay , was one of those who missed out . |
| 16 | Her breasts deflated to a simple 34B — no , 34A , even better . |
| 17 | Jean Dubuffet 's ‘ La Calipette ’ of 1961 , for example , bought at Sotheby 's London in April 1990 for £2,530,000 ( $4,427,500 ) went for a mere FFr6 million ( £714,300 ; $1.12 million ) , its low estimate , after a long duel between two telephone bidders . |
| 18 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |
| 19 | Bids for an oak standing court cabinet made in Flanders around 1520 rose to a startling FFr2.5 million ( £259,800 ; $425,000 ) , ten times its low estimate and another world record , while a more richly decorated and rich hued world cupboard with grotesque masks , Anjou work around 1600 , went for a modest FFr400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) ( estimate FFr200–250,000 ) . |
| 20 | Christie 's were gratified when , on 13 June 1991 , a German transitional commode they had estimated at £250,000 ( DM737,000 ) went for an enormous DM4,682,000 . |
| 21 | The model looked like a stretched-out SE5a , only smoother and cleaner . |
| 22 | He did not breathe spontaneously and died in a pulmonary W with lungs filled with water and we ca n't exclude that the reason for that was just the water bath . |
| 23 | I went to a local er er council school . |
| 24 | Last year its GNP grew by a heady 5.7% , despite a fall in real net exports equivalent to nearly 2% of its GNP . |
| 25 | In the year to the first quarter , America 's GDP grew by a respectable 2.6% . |
| 26 | Even in America , municipal waste grew on average by 0.5% a head a year , while GDP per head grew by an annual 1.9% . |
| 27 | I put the resolution to the meeting those in favour any against thank you very much , I declare the resolution carried as a special reso resolution . |
| 28 | Erm resolution eight er , set out in the notice of the meeting to increase the aggregate annual sum available for directors ' fees to two hundred and fifty thousand pounds I put the resolution to the meeting those in favour any against I declare the resolution carried as an ordinary re resolution . |
| 29 | If you take all of the money that has been spent since the policy was established in nineteen eighty eight , it still does not amount to twenty pence per child which as I said in a previous erm question , answer to a previous question , is bare would barely buy a pencil for each child . |
| 30 | I closed my eyes and listened to the cracks and smashes until one especially loud thump ended in a low buzz telephones do n't usually make ; then I put the phone down again , turned , looked upward , and set wearily off , back up the stairs . |