Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Alongside and beneath the alley , Mucky Beck rushed for half a mile past walled mill-ponds , wasteland and cinder piles all the way from Shearbridge Road to Cheshum Street . |
| 32 | I wondered if you ever heard of such a thing ? |
| 33 | The Industrial Research Associations began with such a function in the inter-war period and continue to play a similar role today . |
| 34 | Liza , distraught at the news , came home on compassionate leave , which she spent in such a state of shock and distress that Harriet began to feel that the sooner she returned to her duties the better . |
| 35 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 36 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics , as did England at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 37 | She finished on such a note of surprise that in spite of myself I laughed . |
| 38 | ‘ I lived in such a jungle once , ’ said Meh'Lindi . |
| 39 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 40 | Bassetja led from half a mile out and looked at one stage like winning the race as the favourite Velma appeared to have it all to do . |
| 41 | That is to say they operated in such a way as either to confirm the proposed design ( by acting within the analysis phase ) or to generate the engineering information for production ( by acting within the scheming phase ) . |
| 42 | She asked in such a way … . |
| 43 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 44 | And I did use it once and I got in such a temper ! |
| 45 | Companion never lost through many a league , |
| 46 | Most recently , the Cadbury Committee said that it was not persuaded by those who called for such a limitation . |
| 47 | Those teachers who worked in such a way were conscious that they were shifting the focus from schooling to learning . |
| 48 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 49 | But these niggles pale when up against the infuriating fact that Drop Nineteens are n't given real room to perform , their potential smothered by a relentless stream of diving dickwits , sloshed on half a pint of coke . |
| 50 | I got swore at many a time , I did . |
| 51 | We started at such a speed . |
| 52 | They wondered why they were asked if they could stand heights and naturally no one admitted to such a weakness so seven volunteers were picked to appear in Les Jambes de la Femme . |
| 53 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 54 | ‘ Lola went through such a lot at a young age — I admire her — I 'm certainly not as strong as she is . ’ |
| 55 | Lola went through such a lot at a young age — I admire her — I 'm certainly not as strong as she is . ’ |
| 56 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 57 | He leant his arm along the top of the car door , letting his eyes rest on her face for one moment that felt like half a lifetime to her . |
| 58 | He had suddenly appeared through the trees and was thrusting what looked like half a chicken into my now outstretched hand . |
| 59 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 60 | If on the other hand the signalling cells grew into such a shape that they could come into direct contact with their target organs the chemical signal could be discharged directly at site across the ‘ synaptic ’ gap between the cells . |