Example sentences of "the [noun] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loretta turned to Simmons , feeling it was not an auspicious moment to trouble the porter with a sensitive request . |
| 2 | Mitch Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free-kick and Cusack stole in to side-foot home . |
| 3 | Mitch Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free-kick and Cusack stole in to side-foot home . |
| 4 | Sometimes it was pure hundred octane with a gas line coming into the tent with a little valve on it . |
| 5 | Quinn nearly got a second just before the break but this time Kavavaev was equal to a close-range effort after Gerry Taggart had provided the opportunity with a bustling header . |
| 6 | After this he would fill in the forms with a loaded brush , slapping the colour on with a wonderful deftness of touch and sense of control . |
| 7 | Kelly Turner 's Roxy delighted the crowds with a prizewinning trick — performing a ‘ dolphin flip ’ before retrieving darts from a board . |
| 8 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 9 | Brush one edge of the strips with a dampened brush and carefully place them against the cake so that they are supported by the cocktail sticks . |
| 10 | Join the strips with a plain seam and fold in half lengthways with right sides facing . |
| 11 | After Gerald Williams had caught Pontypool on the hop with a 16th minute try , converted by Mark Wyatt , the Kiwi import changed the whole course of events . |
| 12 | Younger officers regard the change with a certain indifference . |
| 13 | A chalk grey suit , a new starched white shirt , a tie with diagonal stripes , the shirt with a button-down collar . |
| 14 | After the soldiers of former dictator Idi Amin fled the barracks of the district capital Moroto in 1979 , they left the Karimojong with a wide range of automatic weapons . |
| 15 | Yesterday , she seized the chance to confound the carping with a firm commitment to continuing the reforms in the health service . |
| 16 | Supplies needed : should be sufficient to last the period of the trial with a small reserve . |
| 17 | He reached into his gaming box and brought forth a piece , setting it down on the board with a satisfied air . |
| 18 | The runner with a good endurance base finds training easier , and will recover properly from it — that is why the top-class 10,000m runners run 90 or 100 miles a week . |
| 19 | An excellent training shoe for the runner with a normal foot plant , who likes a very cushioned ride . |
| 20 | And it was Charlie who set up the winner with a headed flick on for McNally to score from eight yards out . |
| 21 | And it was Charlie who set up the winner with a headed flick on for McNally to score from eight yards out . |
| 22 | The road emptied and the tide with a lazy paw had reached up and taken away most of the day 's leavings on the beach . |
| 23 | Ludo leans over the saucepan and stirs the milk with a wooden spoon . |
| 24 | No sooner had the goblins left them than Martin and Mihal stood still , pierced to the heart with a dreadful guilt . |
| 25 | And that 's what you 're checking , the other side of the heart , the right hand side of the heart with a smaller pump , where 's that pumping ? |
| 26 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 27 | Stephens converted the try with a booming kick from the touchline and when he landed two further penalties within five minutes Pontypool were 15–3 adrift and on their way out . |
| 28 | Jones also made the try with a perfect chip through from a five metre scrum . |
| 29 | A vidicon TV camera can provide an input to such systems , and the image from the TV camera is stored in a memory bank just as if it had been read from a disc file ( as would be the case with a remotely-sensed image ( Chapter 5 ) ) . |
| 30 | This is often the case with a continuous production plant , but we also find it in hospitals and also in the police force . |