Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the Sayers over at West New Houses , a big place with a sheep moor which belonged to the Strathmores , the Queen Mother 's family . |
| 2 | And I had this strange image of myself and Frankie Vaughan sitting in her front room , spinning a coin to see who went first . |
| 3 | ‘ Then a stewardess said they had another passenger with stomach pains . |
| 4 | The sun 's a red ball in the oak And all the grass is grey with dew , A while ago a blackbird spoke He did n't know the world 's askew … |
| 5 | Hey and a cyclists speed She bought a book for one seventy five she gets seven fives |
| 6 | A college lecturer in Redcar was reduced to a nervous wreck and had to call the police to get rid of salesmen while in Northallerton a salesman suggested he bedded down on a couple 's sofa while they slept on £5,000 offer . |
| 7 | How should one estimate the faults of those who offered incense without any torture , those who gave way only after cruel torture by rack and fire , and those who had not actually offered incense at all but had bribed a friendly official to sell them a certificate to say they had done so ? |
| 8 | A fight ensued which left one man dead , one crippled for life and several with lasting scars . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't want to pry , Claudia , but it does n't need a genius to know something went wrong between you and Roman Wyatt the other night , and every instinct I have tells me it 's something to do with Dana . ’ |
| 10 | The International Federation of Chemical , Energy and General Workers Unions about a year ago revealed that a study conducted for the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH ) among workers in a New Jersey Plant working with the proteolytic bacterial enzyme Esperase in producing a bleach showed they had become immunologically sensitised to the enzyme , despite very low levels of exposure . |
| 11 | Do n't put baby bouncers on tables or work surfaces and use a harness to keep them strapped in a high chair . |
| 12 | The high frequencies were tamed and a spectrum calculated which proved to be in perfect agreement with experiment . |
| 13 | However , the ‘ progressive ’ employers who developed this form of occupational welfare , mainly after World War I ( Jones , 1983 ) , typically operated a ‘ marriage bar ’ and the ‘ women 's pension scheme ’ doubled as a savings scheme which produced marriage gratuities . |
| 14 | The distinction between a statute creating a public right and a statute prohibiting what had previously been lawful is not a satisfactory one as it does not appear to be based on any particular principle . |
| 15 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 16 | He had a tooth missing which showed because he grinned a lot , and the rest were stained , and he was not reticent . |
| 17 | As a result rabbiting itself became less popular . |
| 18 | Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship . |
| 19 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 20 | Deploying all of the ritual tactics of a US bid battle , Chevron , founded by the Rockefeller family , filed a lawsuit to remove Pennzoil as a shareholder claiming it had violated anti-trust laws with its share purchases . |
| 21 | A Brazilian said it reminded him of London during the Falklands war . |
| 22 | A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it . |
| 23 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 24 | A witness described what happened in Bulohawo , a town on the Somali-Kenyan border : |
| 25 | As the scores were read out like a football draw it became clear that it would be a close contest . |
| 26 | When he took me to a football match we saw Paul Gascoigne and I was allowed to go on the pitch . |
| 27 | A spokeswoman said an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened . |
| 28 | At a second glance one noticed signs of a softer side to her nature : in the delicate primrose pattern of the edging to her tunic ; in the strings of pearl and rose-coloured beads at her wrists ; in the butterfly bow on her otherwise masculine-looking pigtail . |
| 29 | If the offer is likely to be contested then the offeror will not be able to use the target 's board as a barometer to help it set the price . |
| 30 | Then he heard a crash like something had dropped . |