Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an open " in BNC.
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| 1 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 2 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 3 | A lepidopterist might be able to quote a going price for a preserved chalk-hill blue in good condition , wild rabbits have a price when shot and skinned , but the market price of Twyford Down itself would be low if sold with legal constraints which kept it as an open , public space and high if sold with planning permission for houses or industry ( or even a road ) . |
| 4 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 5 | He put her in an open boat , with no oars , at the mouth of the River Aberlessie which , the chronicle says , was called ‘ The Mouth of Stench ’ because of the thousands of rotting fish cast on the sands . |