Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorcas sat and twiddled a bit of wire aimlessly . |
| 2 | The eyes cleared , the relaxed body tightened , and Gerald Seymour-Strachey cast a glance at Greg almost quizzical . |
| 3 | More specifically , Roman portraits embodied a set of virtues traditionally valued by the Roman people . |
| 4 | Merrill stapled a batch of papers together . |
| 5 | Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow . |
| 6 | ‘ John Ashenden phoned a couple of hours ago . ’ |
| 7 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 8 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 9 | One year , in June , we found a pair of swans still at Toftingall . |
| 10 | Under a pillow on our bed I found a cache of fat neatly rolled marijuana joints . |
| 11 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 12 | We found a set of initials there . |
| 13 | We found a tramp in wood once . |
| 14 | After a time I found a group of people all sitting on some narrow stairs . |
| 15 | Dad , warming to his role , moved a couple of steps forward , his arm still flung out in front of him . |
| 16 | She let a hint of tears well up in the green eyes ; it was a stage trick , not often enough practised . |
| 17 | He stroked a strand of hair away from her face , and her body froze . |
| 18 | As i mentioned a couple of Sundays ago , the spirit is creatively active at the conception of Jesus . |
| 19 | Finally , the voluntary mountain bike restriction for Snowdon mentioned a couple of issues ago has been agreed between the interested parties . |
| 20 | He stopped a couple of feet away . |
| 21 | In most European countries collective bargaining , whether conducted at the regional or district level , involved a group of enterprises rather than individual firms or plants . |
| 22 | ‘ This was clearly intended to be a show of strength and involved a group of men simply taking the law into their own hands , ’ she said . |
| 23 | The 1975–6 fighting may have been the beginning of the final struggle over the Covenant between Arabism and the West , although in physical terms , it involved a series of horrors rather than battles ; Black Saturday on the Ring motorway , the Palestinian massacre of Christians in Damour , the Christian massacres of Palestinians at Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar . |
| 24 | Charles crumbled a piece of bread self-consciously . |
| 25 | Jesus , in reply , used a method of argument well known to the Jews . |
| 26 | The secondment of one member of the English Department , and the appointment of another , was seen by the College as a solution to both problems , which had together created a need for lecturers formally qualified as specialists in the study of English Language . |
| 27 | Thallium poisoning created a set of symptoms exactly matching a series found in a type of polyneuritis known as the Guillain-Barré syndrome . |
| 28 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 29 | Possibly these entered an ancestor of D only when it reached York or Worcester . |
| 30 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |