Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ancient Egyptians being carried home from a drinks party . |
| 2 | The purpose is proved by question and answer if the defendant is driving or if he has to be interviewed later by a police officer . |
| 3 | Built around the turn of the century , it had been designed originally as a soldiers ' barracks . |
| 4 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 5 | Section 32 regulates searches where an arrest is made away from a police station . |
| 6 | Surplus credit funds can be transferred automatically to a savings account . |
| 7 | I would have thought the Russians just about got ahead on a points average with that one . ’ |
| 8 | The brown muddy plain had sparse vegetation , most of which appeared to have been burnt away in a centuries old holocaust which had dried out and cracked most of the mud . |
| 9 | When a person is arrested away from a police station , section 30 says that he should be taken to a police station as soon as practicable unless the investigation requires his presence elsewhere . |
| 10 | Their house was not searched at the time of the dawn raid ; they were not driven away to a police station for questioning . |
| 11 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 12 | She did not pass through the normal arrivals lounge and was driven away in a police van . |
| 13 | This allows competitors to fight under virtually the same rules as their full-contact brothers , but strikes and kicks are judged more on a points system , points being awarded for perfection of technique rather than for pounding a competitor into the ground or knocking him out . |
| 14 | Father Barnes had gone , escorted home by a police constable . |
| 15 | Protestors blocked the site for two days , forcing the waste to be stored temporarily at a police station . |
| 16 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 17 | ‘ Mick was very much trying to live down the pretty-boy guitarist bit and to be taken seriously as a blues player . |
| 18 | It was almost a pleasure to deal with a tantrum from Weenie , and a positive relief to be sent home in a police car . |