Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 2 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 3 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 4 | So that er , Woodrow could experience a full sense of self , to actually relate back to his himself , which er , Wilson er , experienced only as a child . |
| 5 | The River Ure around Langthorpe was badly affected by mid-week floods and no one expected much from a venue still out of sorts for Bradford 's closing fixture . |
| 6 | IN SEPTEMBER , a group of 50 people met together for a week of prayer at Our Lady of Good Counsel , Leeds . |
| 7 | The decline of around 35 per cent in the number of births between 1964 and 1977 led rightly to a review of the provision of educational places . |
| 8 | Apollinaire and Hourcade added that this conceptual or intellectual approach led naturally to a selection of simple geometric forms . |
| 9 | With the funds available , Florey collaborated with Chain , whose work on lysozyme , already mentioned , led naturally to a study of a wider range of antibacterial agents . |
| 10 | Ferranti 's senior management was extremely unhappy about the arrangements , but at that stage took the view that they amounted merely to a credit risk rather than a fraud . |
| 11 | Table 7.5 shows the percentage of tracks with 0,1,2 , … additional records as a result of additions made randomly to a file . |
| 12 | Recollecting that she had no money with her , Clare asked only for a cup of tea ; but Len made her and Bridget sit down while he queued , and returned with a loaded tray . |
| 13 | The Newfoundland cod population has crashed before , in the 1970s , but recovered somewhat under a quota system during the 1980s . |
| 14 | The lane near our cottage led only to a farm , the youth hostel poised on the edge of the cliff and a monument to a Welsh poet , put there by his friends . |
| 15 | We lived together for a while . ’ |
| 16 | The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage . |
| 17 | When you came to get your your contract with er te te te and you were all in the same c contract , was that because you got together as a union , or whether you got t together as the worker ? |
| 18 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 19 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 20 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 21 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |
| 22 | So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal . |
| 23 | A group of directors and employees got together for a discussion group and the resulting lively debate was recorded on a video currently doing the rounds of BNFL sites . |
| 24 | As early as 1970 , before linguistics became a separate department , the small group of linguistic teachers at Lancaster got together round a table , and discussed the idea of having a special research project which would be centred at Lancaster . |
| 25 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 26 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 27 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 28 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |
| 29 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 30 | One of CD 's favourite books , which , like David Copperfield , he devoured eagerly as a child . |