Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near him was a door which presumably led to a room beyond . |
| 2 | This gate presumably led to a quay , or docks , and there are references to it in some Saxon charters . |
| 3 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 4 | Stevenson readily admits that his business talents did not blossom early — ‘ I was a most inept apprentice , ’ he says — but he successfully qualified as a CA and joined a subsidiary of the British Steel Corporation . |
| 5 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 6 | In the first place , as the age of marriage decreased , the years of potential childbearing for the wife increased , and this in turn eventually led to a shortening of the intervals between generations , so increasing the proportion of the population likely to get pregnant . |
| 7 | There are , she says , around 71,000 households on council waiting lists in Tyne and Wear , Northumberland and County Durham and yet housing and homelessness rarely surfaced as an election issue . |
| 8 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 9 | The £500 white van , which was reported stolen from Wallasey , eventually crashed into a field by the Post House hotel , on Wrexham Road , in Chester . |
| 10 | The car eventually crashed into a bus stand , Durham Crown Court was told . |
| 11 | Over 600 amateur performers representing 11 Organisations including the League of Health & Beauty , Keep Fit , Margaret Morris , Medau , Slimnastics , Ballroom and Folk Dance , etc. moved in a kaleidoscope of colour within the splendour of the Royal Albert Hall enthralling their audience , ending in a grand finale flooding into the arena from every entrance and aisle , swirling round in one great happy group to celebrate this wonderful occasion . |
| 12 | More recently , in a series entitled , ‘ Scenes from the intimate life of CMA ’ she uses six small-scale canvasses , each focussing on a film still , randomly appropriated from a narrative sequence . |
| 13 | Treasury Counsel announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment was now inclined to take the view that the statue was not part of the listed building , and so asked for an adjournment . |
| 14 | Lieutenant Stapleton suddenly realized with a shock of fear that he was lucky not to have been shot down by one of these tattered lunatics . |
| 15 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
| 16 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 17 | The successes of penicillin and streptomycin naturally led to a search for further antibiotics . |
| 18 | The controversy apparently arose from a communiqué issued by the Philippines-US Mutual Defence Board after its meeting in Manila on Nov. 5-6 , chaired jointly by the Philippine Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Lisandro Abadia and Adml. |
| 19 | If a mutant batch of tadpoles with cannibalistic tendencies suddenly arose in a spadefoot population , they would tend to survive much better on those occasions when the pond was quickly drying out . |
| 20 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 21 | I only got into a couple of fights . |
| 22 | Darwinism , progress , conservation of energy , the psychology of Herbert Spencer , and physiology wrestling with the nature of life , all led to a world-view very different from that of the churches . |
| 23 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 24 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 25 | Not to do so amounted to a dereliction of duty in the same way that Callaghan 's statement misunderstood the political content of media imagery . |
| 26 | A news item in 1988 concerning a 590cm. ( approximately 19ft. ) long pilot whale washed up at Talland Bay recalls other sea mammals washed up on our coastline , one of which apparently qualified for a church burial . |
| 27 | Cell walls perhaps arose as a device to keep useful chemicals together and stop them leaking away . |
| 28 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 29 | The Germans naturally excelled at a style developed by themselves ; most commonly this was a simplification of Gothic features . |
| 30 | ‘ I only moved in a couple of years ago . |