Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 2 | They found a cafe a short distance from the car park . |
| 3 | Two speakers told a conference a dangerous gap exists between nursing and social care and that the provision of a seamless service between health and social care is still eluding most authorities . |
| 4 | I think prob problems of identification have n't really been right this time and we made a point a clear point this time with a note to people , if they were n't sure , to make comments on the books . |
| 5 | and it was windy right , he got a tree a third of the height of that on a table , they puts it up on a table , and underneath the tree they have got one present which is member of the family from each member of the family , right , that is it , one present , it maybe a box of chocolates , you know , or a box of cigars , something like that , children wake up Christmas morning they have a bag which is about that big , with a full of sweets and bits and pieces , little toy car thing and they have one big present , right , and I 'll tell you what festivity over there is as well , that must , it because it 's not over dark because there no big glory about it , there so much more relaxed that , well Chris he said , yeah |
| 6 | he got a boat a little boat . |
| 7 | It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection . |
| 8 | Professor St John Goth heard a door a few minutes before he last looked at his watch at twelve-forty-five . |
| 9 | The Mock Turtle was in the middle of a very sad song when they all heard a shout a long way away : ‘ It 's beginning ! ’ |
| 10 | Some witnesses heard an engine begin coughing and spluttering and some heard an engine increase from low power to a higher power setting before they and other witnesses heard an impact a few seconds later . |
| 11 | In the urodynamics lab , we conducted a comprehensive study that included a uroflow a post-void residual , cystometry and a pressure flow study , and also er simultaneous voiding fluoroscopy . |
| 12 | Back on the A34 we circled a roundabout a few times to test the road-holding . |
| 13 | I took a seat a little way from the knot of people that formed the main body of our party . |
| 14 | It became increasingly questionable whether New Zealand did a gain a big advantage by being able to insert England , for when the early sideways movement died down , it was replaced not be a comfortable batting surface but by increasingly variable bounce . |
| 15 | A heroin addict who gave a friend a fatal injection of drugs has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal . |
| 16 | The most spectacular known to me in Europe were the great rock-falls that occurred from tile sheer face of Ramnefjell ( Raven Mountain ) into Loenfjord in central Norway in 1905 and 1936 , producing waves which wiped out local communities and carried a steamer a considerable distance inland . |
| 17 | Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 . |
| 18 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 19 | We had a letter a few |
| 20 | Although 44 had a pension a third thought the pension was not important . |
| 21 | I I had a set a full set of music which I I er er was at the W I hall , and has now gone . |
| 22 | Yes , of course , erm the point has to be made , that Bullett , unlike contemporary erm , biographers of er Wilson , those people you mentioned , actually knew Wilson , and an you know , being his administration on that man as it were , and apparently Bullett had a lot a first-hand erm , biographical data , did n't he , according to the book ? |
| 23 | Yes we had a meeting a few weeks ago to discuss the future and it was agreed that we should have three issues a year rather than four , I think this would be welcomed by local police stations got ta change the dates to act on market research which indicates certain months when certain security devices sell well . |
| 24 | For Alvin and me , bogus mansions and graveyards were the thing , and I Married a Witch a sweeter brew . |
| 25 | " I say , " said a voice a little distance away . |
| 26 | She had an accident a few weeks back . |
| 27 | I compiled an anthology a few years ago about , of misogynist quotes , and it 's everything from the bible , the Koran , the Hindu , to , every religion 's in there , all the judges are in there , pop singers are in there , I mean everybody under the sun ! |
| 28 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 29 | More than two thirds of 1,344 respondents considered a basement a desirable feature , with a third considering them very desirable . |