Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers of his other hand beat a sensuous tattoo on her rounded bottom , stopping to tap and then sweeping away the notes with a furious stroke . |
| 2 | At the height of her anger , unable to stop herself , she beat a loud tattoo with her clenched fists on the wooden edge of the bunk . |
| 3 | She could almost feel the electrical impulse of them , some challenge there that made her feel threatened … and yet made her heart beat a fearful tattoo inside her chest , recognising that danger was a roller-coaster ride and that fear was often closely followed by exhilaration . |
| 4 | Greatly outnumbered , the ducks would abandon their foraging mission and beat a hasty retreat to their island stronghold at the slightest sign of trouble . |
| 5 | Compaq Computer Corp beat a hasty retreat from ‘ desktop Unix . ’ |
| 6 | The blacks had just seen a film , ‘ Mississippi Burning ’ , in which Klansmen beat a black child to death . |
| 7 | As the rain beat a dull rhythm on Milan 's sludge-coloured buildings this spring , Italian designers were proclaiming the return of brilliant colour behind the facades of the word 's most industrial fashion capital . |
| 8 | The two lucky gunslingers turned out to be Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons who narrowly beat a young lad from Manchester at the final cut . |
| 9 | In March 1925 he beat a Conservative mediocrity in an election for secretary of the Union , in Michaelmas 1925 he was vice-president , in Lent 1926 president . |
| 10 | The herdsman beat a tactful retreat to the end of the cowshed and then I took the opportunity to say what I thought . |
| 11 | There was a woman who was assaulted , the Turks from the restaurant came down and beat a single man outside the Moat Centre . |
| 12 | In 1920 it routed a Polish army to the suburbs of Warsaw and at the end of the following year launched an invasion of the Menshevik Republic of Georgia after its government had quelled an internal Bolshevik uprising . |
| 13 | Most studies have been carried out by watching just one plant species and drawing conclusions from that , though a study by Leighton and Leighton analysed a whole forest in eastern Borneo . |
| 14 | It was Galileo 's contemporary , Kepler , who contributed a major breakthrough in that direction when he discovered that each planetary orbit could be represented by a single ellipse , with the sun at one focus . |
| 15 | 21–7 " Letters were read from the secretary and convener of the Praise Committee of the Church with regard to a grant for assisting the congregation to secure an instrument to be used in congregational praise , from which it appears that the Committee were prepared to give £10 on condition that the instrument would be introduced in connection with public worship , and that the congregation contributed a suitable proportion of the cost . " |
| 16 | In establishing their ancestry , little reference is ever made to the surrealists , who obviously contributed a great deal to the contestation of realism — this seems to arise mainly from a dislike of the practice of automatic writing . |
| 17 | He contributed a great deal to the development of Welsh drama with both original plays and translations , while his book on Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom ( 1930 , revised edn. 1979 ) was the fruit of a lifelong study of the subject . |
| 18 | This is not so , but they have , over many centuries , contributed a great deal in the formation of the Madeira we know today — particularly in the areas of trade , industry and tourism . |
| 19 | The Industrial Novel contributed a distinctive strain to English fiction which persists into the modern period — it can be traced in the work of Lawrence and Forster , for instance . |
| 20 | Every Sunday I also contributed a religious meditation to the New Times of Burma under the heading ‘ Thought for Today ’ , following on a Buddhist meditation for the preceding day . |
| 21 | On a somewhat more disturbing note , Timm Ulrichs contributed a handsome set of ‘ records ’ made of sandpaper . |
| 22 | New artists Youssou N'dour and Tracy Chapman contributed a vital freshness to the London evening : Chapman , admittedly , had much less impact than at the Mandela concert , mainly because she sang carbon copies of songs which are now heard anywhere and everywhere ; but N'dour 's intriguing vocal range and muezzin 's inflections came over brilliantly in this company . |
| 23 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 24 | The versatility of the artist was shown in 1876 with the publication of the Buckland edition of Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White [ q.v. ] , for which Delamotte surprisingly contributed a charming series of bird and animal illustrations . |
| 25 | Whereas many such attempts embodied a somewhat static view of the pressure distribution , this was succeeded by what Barry and Perry ( 1973 ) termed a kinematic view of the weather map in which the synoptic weather map is viewed in terms of airflow and the movement of pressure systems . |
| 26 | In Gardening From Which ? trials in 1985 , which was a fairly wet summer , petunia Resisto Mixed did particularly well and provided a colourful display until late September . |
| 27 | Similarly , the war provided a receptive atmosphere for a reappraisal of the economic and recreational role of the countryside . |
| 28 | Carefully chosen attributes both explained a sitter 's work and interests and provided a satisfying interplay of forms , within which shapes were made to rhyme in curious and subtle ways . |
| 29 | Cohen , March and Olsen ( 1972 ) provided a stark contrast to the planning-oriented literature on organization design and decision making with their ‘ garbage-can model ’ , which in essence claims that people and systems in organizations were in possession of solutions to problems and predispositions to take certain actions when problems or specific situations arise . |
| 30 | Even in these circumstances the approach provided a deep insight into the information needs of the organisation , and revealed a considerable number of potential improvements , some of which were implemented in the course of the study and others that were addressed in the longer term . |