Example sentences of "an [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … an orderly arrived with dispatches for the Governor whom he was told to meet at our house . |
| 2 | Nigel liked to accompany his asides about Jewish meanness with an exaggerated shrugging of shoulders and palms open to the heavens . |
| 3 | He was n't hurt and he did n't let go of Caspar but he howled , an awful wailing with his mouth open . |
| 4 | The partnership is not really working , although of course erm what happened on Saturday was that after an awful pasting during the week verbally from Mick their manager , and indeed having both been brought off very controversially at Molyneux last Tuesday evening , both substituted in the closing stages when Notts were losing and both strikers we er were brought off , you could n't get much more controversial tha that by a manager could you ? |
| 5 | Soon the Wheelbarrow is trundling down the road towards the explosion site , and it is established that an IED positioned in a hole by the fence-post and fired through a wire appears to have only parti ally exploded . |
| 6 | I think it 's just that places where people have believed things have an odd feel to them … |
| 7 | It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position . |
| 8 | We have an old saying over here : ‘ Things can be critical , but they are never serious ’ . |
| 9 | There was an old feel about it . |
| 10 | Mrs. Jennens , daughter of Judge Blencowe , dreamt that an express came with an account of the death of her sister , Lady Probyn ; that the latter had appointed her sole Executrix and had left a cabinet to Mrs. Betty Blencowe in which were secret drawers containing several valuables . |
| 11 | We have merely argued that such an existent belongs to . |
| 12 | It was , incidentally , a journey of about 20 miles , and it is an interesting reflection on the times that no one saw any danger in an 11-year-old embarking on such a trip alone . |
| 13 | Frederick Forsyth 's THE DECEIVER ( Corgi , £4.99 ) is an exciting read with the hero being interrogated by his SAS masters about four past missions . |
| 14 | ‘ Bilalian ’ replaced ‘ Muslim ’ ( Bilal was an Ethiopian thought to be the first black follower of the prophet Muhammad ) . |
| 15 | It was something I had been raised to believe in , so the idea of living with him , even temporarily , had an illicit feel to it . |
| 16 | An architectural Gone With The Wind with Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara hamming it up across the Grand Canal . |
| 17 | It will have been in the aftermath of this contact with the papacy that Eadwine , though still a pagan , allowed an episcopal see to be established at York for Paulinus , and in itself this shows the direction in which Eadwine was moving . |
| 18 | The setting of the officers ' mess on board HMS Plymouth has been chosen by the actors to give an authentic feel to the show . |
| 19 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 20 | Only in the political disarray which followed the deaths of Offa and Ecgfrith is there evidence of an eagerness to abandon Lichfield , when Coenwulf , king of the Mercians , proposed in letters to Pope Leo in 797 and again in 798 the creation of an archiepiscopal see for a single southern province for Aethelheard at London to replace both Canterbury and Lichfield . |
| 21 | They pass judgment on an accused taking into account the gravity of the crime and the circumstances of the accused . |
| 22 | The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships . |
| 23 | STEPHEN PEARS enhanced his England claims with a flawless display for Boro — including an amazing save with his head . |
| 24 | The dominating figure in the new organization was Richard Acland — MP , an ex-Liberal converted to socialism in 1936 , and a vigorous supporter of the pre-war Popular Front movement . |
| 25 | Charlotte clamped her eyes shut for an instant to stave off frustration . |
| 26 | She took her eyes off the road for an instant to glance at him . |
| 27 | The State is allowed to continue subsidising unprofitable farming and forestry , because that keeps old pals and supporters happy ; but too many conservationists have an unfortunate leaning towards the radical . |
| 28 | the phrases concerning self-determination and the entire nationalist movement , which at present constitute the greatest danger for international socialism , have experienced an extraordinary strengthening from the Russian revolution . |
| 29 | The British tradition of climber-placed protection was the theme underlying an international meet in Wales , organised by the BMC . |
| 30 | The inclusion of work by artists such as Auerbach , Kossoff and Hockney added an international feel to the catalogue . |