Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence and prosecution cases are each made up of an introduction , testimonies of witnesses , and a summary . |
| 2 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 3 | This spilled over to a fall in the reservation prices . |
| 4 | All of this added up to an ‘ inaccessible market ’ . |
| 5 | And this came about through a sequence of catastrophes , movements of people , and trade . |
| 6 | This came about in an equally haphazard fashion . |
| 7 | The answer to this came out of a completely different approach introduced by a British mathematician and physicist , Roger Penrose , in 1965 . |
| 8 | But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all . |
| 9 | ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun . |
| 10 | This grew out of a Loan Exhibition ( accompanied by lectures ) of scientific apparatus for the 1862 Exhibition at South Kensington , which turned out to be a pale shadow of the Great Exhibition of 1851- the death of Prince Albert adding to the gloom . |
| 11 | This went on for a long time . |
| 12 | shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that ! |
| 13 | He half walked , half ran on without a word . |
| 14 | Set the temperature to a degree or two higher than that of the maintenance tank and place the female in this set up for a time to associate herself with the layout and hiding places . |
| 15 | In their haste to dispose of the money some of it was burned and some ended up in a sewer . |
| 16 | That came back through a separate AC30 so they could both distort to their hearts ’ content and not interfere with each other . |
| 17 | The mean number of hits for a stimulus was 13.94 and the mean number of false alarms was 5.25 , each measured out of a possible maximum of 20 . |
| 18 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 19 | There were several injuries and all healed up after a while . |
| 20 | For inveterate cattle-lifters it all added up to a convenient no-man's-land across which to launch thieving raids . |
| 21 | Maria Teresa : When her mother died , Black Irene gave out such a blood-curdling scream in the middle of the night that we all woke up with a jump . |
| 22 | Friday evening was spent mastering rhythm-changes on the piano and weaving cheerfully around the furniture in an Edinburgh tenement , and on Saturday and Sunday we all camped out in a School Dance Studio for movement sessions . |
| 23 | Quality manager Francine Galivel says the objective of the visit was fully achieved because everyone — the shift operator , the operator who loads the tanker , the person who plans the haulier 's despatch notes , the chemist who checks that the product meets specifications — all came back with a better understanding of how their jobs fit into the unbroken line from supplier to end product . |
| 24 | Unbelievably , it all dried out without a bubble , and was duly admired by our visitors the following day . |
| 25 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 26 | All fired up for a marathon effort |
| 27 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 28 | IT NEEDED a firework display last night by all three English sides battling to stay in Europe — but it all turned out as a damp squib . |
| 29 | All duded out in a double-breasted suit with my shoes all shined . |
| 30 | For free the solicitor then discusses with the client the legal aspects of the business and its plans , how it operates , ‘ key contractual and legal rights and obligations ’ and recommendations for any action , all followed up by a written summary . |