Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One participant has to describe a route traced out on the map so that both speaker and listener follow the identical route . |
| 2 | So this was how a submarine came back from a successful patrol ! |
| 3 | Each evening , arriving at a new hotel , she carried from the car one suitcase , one shoulder bag , a striped beach bag and a Guernsey knotted round her shoulders . |
| 4 | A beech burst out like a fungus , matured , rotted , and fell in a cloud of tinder dust amid its struggling offspring . |
| 5 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 6 | Larger family size alone usually made for a very different situation from that of a grandchild brought up alone by a grandparent today . |
| 7 | This giant of a racehorse set off in last month 's Cheltenham Gold Cup — one of National Hunt racing 's blue riband events — with a heavy burden . |
| 8 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 9 | Cleaning , using detergents , is therefore a function carried out using a detergent combined with heat and water |
| 10 | Johannsen each claimed a Hurricane shot down at 1045 , both in the same location-obviously the Fulmars . |
| 11 | Leibing each claiming a Hurricane shot down , although apparently one was not confirmed , only one claim being recorded by O.K.W. No Hurricanes were actually lost on this occasion , but A.H.Q. Malta confirmed that one Hurricane had been slightly damaged . |
| 12 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 13 | ‘ Sounds a bit hyped up put like that but he and Uncle Alfred had a long-running feud . ’ |
| 14 | Helping women to stay at home yet giving them an occupation , some money and a branch held out towards the wider community were all worthy goals in Laura 's eyes . |
| 15 | When a Masai owned up to cattle raiding and invited punishment he did so in a spirit , not of insolent defiance , but of self-respect . |
| 16 | But they rose on their own with virtually no support at all amongst ordinary workers , it was essentially a rising carried out exclusively by the Communist Party members themselves . |
| 17 | It 's in all the books I 've got at home.in As he stormed out of the shop , he delivered a parting shot over his shoulder . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A veil came over her eyes . |
| 20 | From this group emerged a curriculum made up of various modules , for example about document preparation and text processing , database management and data modelling , and graphical and statistical analysis . |
| 21 | With the collapse of communism , moreover , a split opened up among the Communists . |
| 22 | At last Finnan stopped before a high stone house that had as its sign a serpent twisted round a staff . |
| 23 | A snipe got up . |
| 24 | Led by the brutish Patrick , Lord Ruthven , a gang burst in upon Mary , her ladies and Rizzio at supper in one of her private inner rooms in Holyrood . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Aimed at University Institutes of Technology , a course organised in to sections on Channels of Distribution . |
| 27 | If ever a sentence summed up the gale of change that is blasting through Yorkshire cricket this season it is that one . |
| 28 | First , the benefit may be of a kind bought in from outside the employer 's business , such as a car or medical insurance ( ‘ external benefits ’ ) . |
| 29 | A strong man with a beard stared down at him . |
| 30 | He despatched the Hurricanes in three flights , each led by a Fulmar , while from Malta three Marylands and a Sunderland set out to meet the incoming formation and lead them in . |