Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Potter took a glass of sherry , and shared out a bottle of sparkling wine . |
| 2 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 3 | In the end the company became frustrated by lengthy negotiations and laid down an ultimatum saying it wanted an answer by September 1988 . |
| 4 | Ms Harriet Harman , the shadow health spokesman , visited Darlington this week and laid out a vision of life under Labour . |
| 5 | Later he built a series of fine warehouses and laid out a dock estate . |
| 6 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 7 | ONE man was killed and another seriously injured yesterday when their car skidded off the road and plunged down an embankment into a tree at a popular beauty spot . |
| 8 | The coach carrying forty four American tourists on a day trip to Canterbury collided with a van and plunged down an embankment . |
| 9 | He gibbered and choked over an appeal for mercy . |
| 10 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 11 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 12 | What I think is , there 's an Iron Age settlement at the top of the Grove , and I think someone found this woman 's skull there , and made up a story about it , the way people do . ’ |
| 13 | When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret . |
| 14 | She unpegged half a dozen , and made up a bed on a pile of linen . |
| 15 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 16 | The gardener narrowed long , grey-blue eyes and made never a move . |
| 17 | ‘ They had clashed on the stairs and argued over a girl , ’ said Mr Crigman . |
| 18 | He had , however , proceeded in safety till he came to the Willow Walk , within half a mile of the church , when by a sudden stagger he quitted the path , and passed over a ditch on his right hand . |
| 19 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 20 | The tip slid through the tweed and penetrated about a quarter of an inch into the fleshy part of the leg . |
| 21 | AN ornithologist sent off £20 for a ‘ parabolic microphone kit ’ to record his favourite birdsongs from 250 yards — and got back a WOK used for stir-frying . |
| 22 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 23 | She opened the bag and got out a powder compact that had a small round mirror on the inside of the lid . |
| 24 | The young man sank slowly into the seat opposite him , and got out a cigarette . |
| 25 | Mamma got a big knife and cut a large slice of cake , put it on a plate , and got out a fork . |
| 26 | Maria snapped , and flung out a hand , unconscious of the helpless appeal allied to imperative demand in the gesture as control slipped once more . |
| 27 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | While his fellow students were still schoolboys , John was leading a raffish private life , and described how a friend from South Africa had taken him to ‘ some Queer pubs which are too fantastic and revolting to be true . |
| 29 | Four Minor Project schools were selected for closer investigation by the evaluation team and visited over a period of one or two days . |
| 30 | On another occasion , a cow made a mad dash from a herd being driven along Crane Bridge Road , managed to dive onto the slope leading to the old ford by the bridge , took off in the Harnham direction and swam almost a mile before the drovers caught up with her . |