Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 2 | In 1970 the world Health Organisation established a ‘ tolerable weekly intake ’ of mercury and , although reviewed a number of times , this remains the same . |
| 3 | That evening you visited your GP who told you to take it easy and prescribed a course of tranquillizers . |
| 4 | A doctor was called out and he diagnosed some kind of virus and prescribed a course of antibiotics . |
| 5 | He got up suddenly and placed a pile of clothes on the end of the bed . |
| 6 | A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs . |
| 7 | To this end a group of sixty-nine 7-9 year old children were randomly sampled from the normal school population and given a battery of tests examining their reading ability , visual processing , phonological processing and short-term memory . |
| 8 | To achieve this , the Museum has built and flown a fleet of replicas . |
| 9 | A 17-year-old paper-stainer , James Irons , was brought before the magistrate — described by the police as a ring-leader and by his mother as ‘ a good boy ’ — where it was said that he had ‘ used disgusting language , and discharged a number of stones larger than walnuts from a powerful catapult ’ . |
| 10 | On the twenty fourth July nineteen ninety one the new resources and policy grant sub-committee met for the first time and considered a number of applications including one from your organisation . |
| 11 | The defendant agreed , and prepared a list of goods to the value of £7,950 which he submitted to the manager , Mr. Gilberd , saying that it represented a genuine order by one Johal and asking him to authorise the supply of the goods in return for a building society cheque in that sum . |
| 12 | Gillian Darley has written and presented a series of books and television programmes . |
| 13 | Local searches — a new motorway is a boon if sited a couple of miles away , but not right at the end of the road . |
| 14 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 15 | ‘ Ronnie Moran and Roy Evans have been through a lot and seen a lot of players come and go . |
| 16 | The following day they trotted off to Laura Ashley 's trendy King 's Road branch and selected a number of outfits and T-shirts for infants aged up to six months . |
| 17 | Frowning , she went over to the cabinet and selected a batch of disks . |
| 18 | He went to the shelves lining one wall and selected a handful of cassettes , then picked up a transistor radio . |
| 19 | A quarter of all Oxfordshire teachers claim to have developed and used a questionnaire on pupils . |
| 20 | Whether this resulted in a concession is not clear , for the authorities appear to have hired and armed a body of men and posted them in the Exchange to arrest the strikers . |
| 21 | My wife and I once went into a pharmacie in Montauban and requested a packet of bandages . |
| 22 | In the early morning of Nov. 8 an explosion on the campus of the AUB destroyed the main administration building and damaged a number of others . |
| 23 | We went into the warehouse , which was enormous , and encountered a sea of bicycles — more bicycles than I had ever imagined-could possibly exist . |
| 24 | I 'd gone into Woolworth 's in Reading and stolen a couple of things from there , and I was hanging around the car park . |
| 25 | He indicated that multiparty elections would be held in six months at the earliest , and appointed a commission of experts to draft a constitution , as well as an election law and an election timetable . |
| 26 | She who could have managed twelve great sons , and trained a staff of servants with one hand , had only Wilson . |
| 27 | Brooke and Remmers ( 1970 ) made a survey of 115 foreign subsidiaries operating in the UK , and identified a variety of reasons why overseas companies decided to create foreign subsidiaries . |
| 28 | Detective Constable David Hemes told the inquest that Mr Ryder had left his home and gone to his chemist 's shop in Old Town Lane , Formby , and taken a bottle of barbiturates . |
| 29 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 30 | Wilkinson has battled hard and taken a lot of knocks this season . |