Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991 , for example , Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Muller cloned the banal façade of the building and relocated it full scale at the edge of a forest : ‘ Fassade Galerie Nagel 1:1 ’ showed the same , faceless , empty apartment building but joined to a work belonging to Munich art dealer , Hanns Daxer and his wife ( to which ‘ Fassade ’ now also belongs ) . |
| 2 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |
| 3 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 4 | He jingled his car keys and said in a quieter voice : ‘ Has this anything to do with whether you keep this house or not ? ’ |
| 5 | He worked for Coast Lines and retired as a collector in 1967 after 47 years ' service . |
| 6 | She led him down the side passage and pointed to a shelf . |
| 7 | A procession of blackclad dignitaries streamed down the road like a column of soldier ants and came to a halt on the bridge . |
| 8 | A study in COLOMBIA found that an integrated service with proper medical back-up cost four times as much per person-year of protection as a straight female sterilisation drive and led to a wide-ranging cost-cutting exercise . |
| 9 | Sometimes he simply hung over the bank and untied the boat , other times he rattled a stick against the boathouse door and shouted in a gruff , common voice — he was a good mimic — ‘ Who 's there ? |
| 10 | Also , the film lost one Val and its pilot in a dive-bombing accident when the aircraft went into a high speed stall and crashed into a sugar cane field . |
| 11 | ‘ A small cup , ’ the paladin said , eyeing with misgiving the black grease-encrusted cooking range that squatted in a corner like an enormous metal dragon . |
| 12 | She took an instinctive step back and brushed against a small marble horse that stood on a pedestal . |
| 13 | We stepped into the cold marble hall and waited under a statue of George the Third masquerading as Alexander the Great . |
| 14 | He was a linebacker at Williams College yet another member of the so-called ‘ Williams Mafia ’ that now occupies so conspicuously large a percentage of the country 's key museum posts and served on a Navy ammunition boat in Vietnam before pursuing graduate studies in nineteenth-century American and European art at Harvard . |
| 15 | I did n't waste much time trying to see what Filmer did or where he went , because I 'd quickly discovered that the Westin Hotel was sitting over an entrance to a subterranean shopping mall that stretched like a rabbit warren in all directions . |
| 16 | ‘ On finding she had become hooked like a drug addict , she gave up the shoot-out paintings and moved into a more feminine world to explore female stereotypes ’ |
| 17 | Two years later , on finding she had become hooked like a drug addict , she gave up the shoot-out paintings and moved into a more feminine world to explore female stereotypes . |
| 18 | Also using a rudder control but coupled to a spreader bar in the bridle , was the Target kite developed by Paul Garber assisted by Lloyd Reicher and Stanley Potter.This was a kite for the specific purpose of training small calibre gunners and on the Eddy-shaped sail , an outline of the Japanese Zero fighter appeared in silhouette . |
| 19 | With advancing years , and after the birth of his eighth child , my grandfather left the marriage bed and moved into a bedroom across the landing of the main staircase . |
| 20 | Ackroyd enjoyed a quiet bachelor life and lived in a small house by the crossing . |
| 21 | The ice which ended the meal was christened Pôle Nord and consisted of a soft cream encased in ice-cream , resting on an ice pedestal carved in the shape of a bird sitting on a rock . |
| 22 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 23 | It is also , merely , the story of a pop group but viewed through a wide angle lens . |
| 24 | FLEXIPOP : Brilliant , ahead-of-its-time pop mag that came with a free flexi ( Blondie , The Jam , Adam And The Ants etc ) on the cover . |
| 25 | The unit could take some credit then for the change in the supplementary benefit adjudication regulations that followed as a result . |
| 26 | He reached inside his tweed jacket and passed across a Security Service pass — the sort used by MI5 officers to identify themselves when in trouble . |
| 27 | I heard the boxes were arrived from London , and on the 4th sorted the ten guinea etchings but found in a most unaccountable ( sic ) that all 13 Conistons with about as many more were pricked through with nails … . ’ |
| 28 | Examination of the Mossie revealed a mark on a propeller blade that looked like a bird strike . |
| 29 | During 1965 , Crawford met former dancer Gabrielle Lewis , who had trained as an actress at drama school and appeared in a few stage plays . |
| 30 | commissioned a new cereal plant and embarked on a capital project which will double output of breakfast cereals in France . |