Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sojourn at Swanage seems indeed to have held magic times for the couple only a few months wed , in those days before the later estrangement . |
| 2 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 3 | Another strange point of the mystery is that the two men claimed that the smoke came out of the tunnel mouth towards the station yet a breeze was blowing the other way . |
| 4 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 5 | By solving standard problems , performing standard experiments and eventually by doing a piece of research under a supervisor already a skilled practitioner within the paradigm , an aspiring scientist becomes acquainted with the methods , the techniques and the standards of that paradigm . |
| 6 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |
| 7 | Facing him on the other side of the arena was the current Executioner , whom Angel One had watched fighting and killing the previous holder of the office barely a week before . |
| 8 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 9 | But Plange completed his hat-trick and sub Ian Hughes scored the try of the night after a 40-yard dash . |
| 10 | The statement of gains proposed in The Future Shape of Financial Reports discloses the change in financial wealth for the period less a capital maintenance adjustment to give a ‘ real ’ change in financial wealth . |
| 11 | In the early eighteenth century poverty was partially responsible for the many applications for military rank , for in the first half of the century even a commission in a new regiment , and the near certainty of half-pay at the conclusion of the war emergency , was attractive . |
| 12 | They escaped the scene of a massacre just a week ago , and have used the time since to come to terms with their ordeal . |
| 13 | SOMERSET batsman Mark Lathwell was yesterday named Whittingdale Young Cricketer of the Month after a flying start to the new season . |
| 14 | This completes the circuit in the switch so a current flows to the lamp 's electrodes and heats them , The glow discharge stops when the contacts touch ; the strip cools off and the contacts reopen . |
| 15 | To relieve tensions in the week before a Cup tie , players were usually taken to Brighton , where the routine was golf on Monday morning , followed by sea-water baths , more golf , training sessions at Brighton FC 's ground and ( compulsory ) cinema visits in the evenings . |
| 16 | If there is more than one child in the family then a special time each is valuable . |
| 17 | At first Emma had taken Ruth to the school twice a day , and fetched her home at midday and at night . |
| 18 | The result was the car was found parked half on the footpath just a few yards away . |
| 19 | In the other case , where a wife killed her husband , there was widespread coverage when a judge decided not to jail a 25-year-old civil servant who had shot her husband through the heart just a week after their marriage . |
| 20 | Progress seemed to have halted ; two more furtive searches of Charlie 's office had turned up nothing other than his hidden Scotch bottle but then , every evening of the day after a job , she 'd see him go in there empty-handed and the book would be on his desk when he summoned her . |
| 21 | Huntsville was then a small agricultural town , and the population of the state probably a lot less than one million . |
| 22 | It is very difficult to seal all the cracks in a building so a more effective method is to create an underpressure beneath the floor to counter that in the building . |
| 23 | I will probably post to the list once a week to let the non-fantasy types know how it is going . |
| 24 | Victorian , of course , but if you spend sixty-four years on the throne then a lot of building styles are going to be named after you . |
| 25 | She stood back and peeled off the shirt with a nonchalance only a trifle marred when a button caught in her hair . |
| 26 | This was quite an achievement for an organisation only a few months old . |
| 27 | CARPET fitter Dennis Stoller was facing ruin last night after a blunder over a £9.41 cheque . |
| 28 | Cropping up now and again in the nationals from Nottingham , has been the story of the mongrel Merv , named after Merv Hughes the Australian cricketer , who tried to grab hold of er Merv on the first day of the test about a week or so ago . |
| 29 | And , er , so the , so Freud 's theory does n't necessarily require that , that any source of anxiety should be traced to today 's events , what it what it does say is that very often today 's events shape the manifest , and sometimes the latent , content of the dream quite a lot . |
| 30 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |