Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 2 | Back on the main road , Robert caught a glimpse of Aziz the janitor . |
| 3 | Musetti built a bed of boxes the other side to break his fall . |
| 4 | After that we never got started , as soon as we got a bit of momentum the sunderland players wasted time by falling over and claiming injury . |
| 5 | The visit to Seaworld was a favourite with many children who shrieked with delight as they got a soaking from Shamu the killer whale . |
| 6 | Katherine sat back in the train 's cushioned seats and as it pulled away from the platform , she breathed a sigh of relief The first part of her plan had been safely accomplished . |
| 7 | He confesses that he killed a man on board the space ship and so would have been tried on his return to Earth . |
| 8 | We were called in twice to enforce the order , he spent a weekend in Saughton the second time . ’ |
| 9 | We arranged an interview for noon the next day at his house on Rocky Point . |
| 10 | On International Women 's Day , 1989 Palestinian women made an appeal to women the world over for solidarity and action to end what is a fascist occupation . |
| 11 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 12 | ( We also took a goshawk in case the Harris 's did n't work , but did n't have to fly him . ) |
| 13 | Aye it did a lot of damage the dykes and that . |
| 14 | His trainer Peter Harris won a race at Folkestone the following week and Supertop , with the rain-softened ground he probably needs , can hold off the likely challenge from winning hurdler Sunset Reins Free in the Barbican Handicap . |
| 15 | Who put an end to Rimeq the Renegade ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I understand you also told George that you had a rehearsal in Rotherhithe the night before you tried to reform the Intelligence Service by force majeure . |
| 17 | She had a conversation with Jean the other day . |
| 18 | We had a punchcard in class the other day which would not catch on to the ‘ cogs ’ and allow itself to rotate . |
| 19 | I had a letter from Benedicta the other day . |
| 20 | But now it 's gone down , but there 's no ulcer she had a laparotomy on Friday the tube . |
| 21 | When she had a missive for delivery the rainbow was a bridge let down from heaven for her to travel upon . |
| 22 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |