Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second was altogether more clever : McDonald isolated and an offside trap jammed by a pass that Alan Pardew collected before shooting diagonally past Southall . |
| 2 | And a combination of that early research and the Trent Bridge base aided his biography of Arthur Shrewsbury , Give Me Arthur : ‘ One day the door opened and an elderly man who introduced himself as a relative of Shrewsbury came in . |
| 3 | The passenger door opened and an ageing prostitute got out . |
| 4 | As she stood there in the vestibule , in front of the carved names of Cambridge School 's distinguished pupils , all the Dorothys and Joans and Ediths and Hildas , the glass-panelled front door opened and an old woman let herself in . |
| 5 | The thought of Beth having both the man she loved and an easy life was too disturbing . |
| 6 | Then started the discussion about where to store it until the inevitable happened , during the course of which the doorbell rang and an elderly neighbour was revealed who had kindly called to introduce himself and to ask if there was anything he could do to help me , as he had heard my husband was ill in hospital . |