Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 2 | At last Finnan stopped before a high stone house that had as its sign a serpent twisted round a staff . |
| 3 | On the night of Saturday 27 June a gang broke down the door of one of the galleries of the unguarded archaeological museum on the Cycladic island of Paros and stole eighteen exhibits , mostly marble figurines , dated to the Cycladic early Bronze Age ( 3200–2100 BC ) , with an estimated value of just under £300,000 . |
| 4 | If ever a sentence summed up the gale of change that is blasting through Yorkshire cricket this season it is that one . |
| 5 | When mussels have opened , drain them in a colander set over a bowl . |
| 6 | Although occasionally Nizan 's assessment of a writer fluctuated over a period of time ( Gide , Giono , Mauriac ) , although on occasions Nizan was simultaneously attracted and repelled by individual writers ( Mauriac , Drieu la Rochelle , Celine ) , the bottom line was always a clear differentiation between a progressive and a reactionary attitude to culture . |
| 7 | but still he fought , kicking and struggling until a blow blotted out the world ... |
| 8 | Like the effect of programme scheduling on TV audience sizes , a story put on the front page was much more likely to be read than something buried inside , and ‘ page traffic ’ figures show slightly higher noting of items on right-hand than left-hand pages . |
| 9 | During its restoration , a storm blew down a huge walnut tree in the roots of which was found the church 's bell , one of the oldest in Hungary . |
| 10 | Over the sink at the other end there was a shelf with cups , saucers , and plates ; a saucepan hung on a hook and there was a kettle on the oil stove . |
| 11 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
| 12 | A ladybird crawled up a dry stalk , then stepped delicately across to the oiled and battered stock of the rifle . |
| 13 | Merchants came next , men and women , then a prostitute ; a beggar brought up the rear , these allegorical figures representing the inescapable gradations of decay . |
| 14 | A KILLER gunned down a young father at his seaside home for no apparent reason . |
| 15 | Nearly half of the episcopal hierarchy refused the new oaths , and as a result opened up a schism in the Anglican Church . |
| 16 | The internal filter usually consists of a pump/powerhead mounted over a chamber filled with foam ( though other media can be used ) . |
| 17 | A soldier pointed out the strangers to his commanding officer . |
| 18 | A motorway workman was killed when a wheel flew off a lorry and hit him . |
| 19 | Yesterday a wheel flew off a lorry and hit a car . |
| 20 | Inside the weight room a tape blared out the music of The Doors to remove the tedium of the hour-and-a-half session spent lifting , pushing and battling with weights . |
| 21 | The question was left open in Davies v Flackett [ 1973 ] RTR 8 , where the accused drove off without paying from a car park while a stranger held up the barrier . |
| 22 | POLICE yesterday named the man killed when a car plunged down an embankment into a tree at a popular beauty spot . |
| 23 | AN INQUEST was opened yesterday into the death of a man killed when a car rolled down an embankment and hit a tree . |
| 24 | The Fat Controller 's words rung once more in my ears as my rollerskate of a car caromed up the A22 to London . |
| 25 | A flare lit up the sky as Taff was talking , casting eerie shadows among the trees . |
| 26 | At one point , a flare lit up the night sky . |
| 27 | There he sat until a child switched on the widescreen t.v. showing a news broadcast . |
| 28 | And a star-shell lit up the winter night sky … |
| 29 | Nineteen people have been injured , five of them seriously after a coach crashed down an embankment , bankment on the M fifty on the Gloucestershire-Worcestershire border ; the coach was carrying elderly passengers on an outing . |
| 30 | She believed that the more a girl covered up the more exciting she was . |