Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dutch 's owner Ron Smith , f rom Manor Road , said : ‘ He has won a lot of championships already including best of breed . |
| 2 | Of the less well known Indian appointments , a place in the Indian Marine also attracted a number of Scots even though it was based at unpopular Bombay , for it was a service which promoted by seniority , and death from wounds or disease could allow the rapid elevation of a healthy midshipman to a position of command . |
| 3 | My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake . |
| 4 | And she 's dropped a tin of paint all over her trainers . |
| 5 | He had enjoyed a life of fishing there , until at the age of forty-five he met Lovebird Johnston . |
| 6 | Neil was astonished at how pleasant the evening had been ; he had seldom enjoyed a game of chess more , and , thinking this , said a little slyly , ‘ Another game , another night , perhaps ? ’ |
| 7 | The man had enjoyed a blip of peyote earlier in the day , and there was a mild , dreamy look on his face , a look of effortless tolerance ; but his hand was steady . |
| 8 | Perhaps the hope-association was as old as the star one ; perhaps ‘ Earendel ’ had contained a presentiment of salvation even for the old heroes ( like Beowulf ) who lived before Christianity was brought to them . |
| 9 | We think that pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients should be considered a criterion for AIDS only if immunodepression is shown by a negative tuberculin skin test and/or low CD4/CD8 ratio . |
| 10 | From well ordered stores were carried a selection of papers neatly cut and precisely positioned , alongside such items as pens , pins and paint rags . |
| 11 | It was parked a couple of streets away . |
| 12 | ONE of the province 's most popular marching bands , the Millar Memorial Flute , has reported an increase in membership recently with it now in excess of 35 including many young members who are building a firm base for the future . |
| 13 | The infamous Tibbet , executed at the roundabout at the top of Putney Hill , is reported to have stabbed a man to death there ; it has literary associations also . |
| 14 | In some cases the courts have upheld a duty of confidence even where the information is demonstrably publicly available . |
| 15 | She 's met a lot of friends here and and likes to meet them in the canteen . |
| 16 | Sean ( Hallam ) Blowers chips in : ‘ The brilliant thing about Backdraft was that no-one had actually done a film about firemen before . ’ |
| 17 | We 're also committed to tenant participation and er we 've done a couple of exercises already on the scheme and we 've secured some funding from the housing corporation to employ Anglian Design on our behalf with the the housing association er , to involve the tenants as fully as possible in the er , development process . |
| 18 | They worked occasionally and acted and wrote their plays and read Jack Kerouac like Dean had done a couple of years earlier . |
| 19 | We have done a number of things internally in the store which have also contributed to us going forward . |
| 20 | But the breathless battering of the shower had done a lot to sluice away the weariness and discomfort of the past couple of days , and perhaps she felt bold enough to try . |
| 21 | Michael , you have done a lot of work both with and for Equity , what do you feel about the present day students ' dilemma ? |
| 22 | He employed the Staffordshire architect John Webb , a landscape gardener at heart , who had done a lot of work locally and came highly recommended . |
| 23 | Yeah Now Pomerance , who 's one of the people in the quote , has done a lot of work recently er by that in the last five six years , looking at how we can investigate the , or objectify , the measures that w or the laws that were used by the . |
| 24 | So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you . |
| 25 | He 's never done a stroke of work since . ’ |
| 26 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 27 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 28 | Local searches — a new motorway is a boon if sited a couple of miles away , but not right at the end of the road . |
| 29 | And this is a letter dated a couple of months ago , is it ? |
| 30 | In early July the Moroccan authorities had freed a number of prisoners previously deemed to have " disappeared " , who had been secretly detained for up to 15 years . |