Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A submarine took them to the island and the party made a successful landing in rubber boats . |
| 2 | I remember a hansom pipped me to a good prospect , in Threadneedle Street . |
| 3 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 4 | It would seem that a vicar exposed himself to a young lady of tender years on Devil 's Bridge sometime in the 1800s . |
| 5 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 6 | DIPLOMACY was plunged into darkness and officials were stranded in lifts after a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew all the fuses in a government conference centre in northern Tanzania . |
| 7 | DIPLOMATS were stranded in lifts when a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew the fuses at a conference in Tanzania . |
| 8 | A correspondent told me of her visit to a hospital mortuary to identify her 20-year-old daughter , who had been killed in a car crash . |
| 9 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 10 | They took the opportunity to share in the daily 10 o'clock Mass , a privilege denied them during their working life . |
| 11 | A wave slapped him in the mouth . |
| 12 | A chamberlain showed them to their seats just beneath the high table , which was dominated by a pearl-encrusted silver salt cellar . |
| 13 | We do swear — ’ He paused , and a murmur followed him with some clearer , harsher voices audible amongst it : ‘ We do swear — ’ He went on : ‘ Never to swerve , ’ and they said it together , ‘ Never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — or this oppressive Act . |
| 14 | Two died of coronaries … and while a policeman was giving a coronary victim resuscitation , a fan relieved himself on both . ’ |
| 15 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 16 | A heavy door swung open and a figure beckoned them into a warm lozenge of light . |
| 17 | A figure approached him with its arms wrapped around its chest . |
| 18 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 19 | A pisteur outdid them on his day off by skiing the top section of the mountain nonstop all day and notching up at least 130,000 vertical . |
| 20 | And a light silhouetted her against the wall . |
| 21 | She did not focus on the actual wording of the questions , and as a result answered them in a rather uncritical way . |
| 22 | A herb will protect them , says the disguised angel to the brothers ; a shepherd gave it to him : |
| 23 | However , despite protests from the priests , who identified Gervais Sindakira as one of their workers , a soldier bayoneted him to death . |
| 24 | But a witness saw him outside the premises . |
| 25 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 26 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
| 27 | A journalist attacked him in 1791 for the ‘ permanent predominant prejudice , that the music is everything , and the words , nothing ’ at the Opéra : ‘ one is made aware of just one author , the author of the music . ’ |
| 28 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 29 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 30 | She was still deep in thought when the sound of a car drew her to the window . |