Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [coord] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they staged a sit-down and were batoned by the police . |
| 2 | Conference , this particular motion calls for an increase of members required to form a branch or be allowed to continue as a branch should it lose members . |
| 3 | He has in one hand a stick and is followed by a thin dog . |
| 4 | A cottage across from the farm had been hit by a shell and was burning fiercely . |
| 5 | Despite connections by marriage with several Shropshire Royalist families , from the outbreak of civil war Mackworth was a parliamentarian and was condemned by a royal proclamation of October 1642 . |
| 6 | I got a sentence and was sent back to Styal . |
| 7 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
| 8 | The final weapon is the tongue , which is as rough as a rasp and is used for stripping hair and skin from the flesh , though the tiger eats plenty of both , probably as roughage . |
| 9 | John could easily believe it ; be remembered how , when he was walking the route of that particular line , he had once asked for a glass of water at a cottage and been charged eightpence for it . |
| 10 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 11 | This world of change and conflict , however , is not just a chaos but is governed throughout time by a principle of order or balance of opposites , keeping them within their due bounds . |
| 12 | Venice , intensely touchy about its international status , was particularly liable to take umbrage if one of its representatives were not offered such a present or were offered one of less value than expected : the failure of the duke of Savoy to make a gift to a departing Venetian ambassador in 1603 , for example , aroused notably bad feeling in the republic . |
| 13 | Even to being impulsive , an uncontrolled state of irritability ; it is a weakness and is accompanied by physical weakness . |
| 14 | Nona picked up the wine bottle , gave her mother a look and was gone . |
| 15 | He was carrying a briefcase and was walking along the cross-over on to the platform . |
| 16 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |
| 17 | The reverse shows crossed keys above a shield and is inscribed : JULIUS II PONT MAX . |
| 18 | Almost four out of five family doctors thought violent patients should lose the right to see a GP and be barred from registering with any doctor . |
| 19 | She appeared before Peterborough magistrates last week on 12 charges of theft from a pensioner and was committed for trial at Crown Court . |
| 20 | But the horse , named Tir na Og , is one hell of a jumper and is stolen by crooked businessman Noel Hartnett — John Kavanagh — and trained for steeplechasing . |
| 21 | The plaintiff fell through a roof and was injured . |
| 22 | In these studies subjects watched films of actual driving situations in a simulator and were given subsequent recognition tests . |
| 23 | In the next century it came to be held as a statute and was regarded as a locus classicus defining at least one boundary between clerical and lay jurisdictions . |
| 24 | A fine example was found in Lincoln in 1866 and is now in the British Museum ( fig. 14.4 ) , i others came from Richborough ( fig. 14.5 ) and from a grave at Colchester on a Castor Box on which a lion appears in a venatio and being held at bay by a nude bestiarius with a long hunting spear . |
| 25 | He works as a packer and is training towards becoming a final examiner . |
| 26 | The basic distinction is that income is a flow and therefore is measured per unit of time , whereas wealth is a stock and is measured at a point in time . |
| 27 | I asked the soldiers if I could take a photograph and was told : ‘ Only if you keep moving . ’ |
| 28 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 29 | The strongest argument in favour of the taxpayers is the anomaly which would arise if the employer 's business were running at a loss or was subsidised by endowment . |
| 30 | I had gained a poet but was losing a lover , perhaps the last I would ever know . |