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 Despite the recession and the slump in consumer spending , UK publishers ' output rose by a startling 16.44% in 1992 .
3 It came in a small erm small envelope .
4 And the only bit of damp I 've got is in one corner of the house but it came from a blocked erm pipe .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Cos her sons had got married and she lived in a little bu flat , bungalow rather .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Her breasts deflated to a simple 34B — no , 34A , even better .
13 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 .
14 was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big
15 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 ) .
16 The model looked like a stretched-out SE5a , only smoother and cleaner .
17 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 .
18 I went to a local er er council school .
19 Last year its GNP grew by a heady 5.7% , despite a fall in real net exports equivalent to nearly 2% of its GNP .
20 In the year to the first quarter , America 's GDP grew by a respectable 2.6% .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
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