Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat Callaghan was just wide with his effort and Chris Copes was forced to kick clear as Steve Hudds beat a header off the line . |
| 2 | A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday . |
| 3 | The suspension loved it ( clonks from the front notwithstanding ) , the body sills and sumpguard slithered over bits where tractor rutting had cut deep , the whip aerial beat a tattoo on the roof and road-biased Semperit tyres found grip . |
| 4 | He beat a tattoo with the door-knocker , and again its reverberations filled the whole world . |
| 5 | Maiden city beauty queen Kelly Craig beat a bevy of 14 leggy lovelies to win the Miss Derry pageant this week . |
| 6 | Sir Richard , 60 , who beat a challenge from Belgian Gen Jose Charlier , takes over the three-year post from Norwegian Gen Vigleik Eide . |
| 7 | ‘ the world beat a path to our door , ’ said Pearce , ‘ We were supplying the technology and the catalysts world-wide . |
| 8 | Teaching my granny to suck eggs , I am sure , but did you see the last Scottish Business Insider which profiled a number of women ? |
| 9 | He also ventured a definition of hegemony , ‘ the totality of all laws and other arrangements by means of which the leading power of a union of states can give the community the desired direction and the stamp of its own spirit . |
| 10 | To encourage himself as much as anything , he ventured a handful of general questions about Neferukhebit 's activities on the days leading up to her death — questions which resulted in conventional answers , the activities of any rich young girl marking time between the end of her education and the arrival of her husband — for these girls were on the fringes of the royal household , and work such as Taheb did — was taboo to their class . |
| 11 | He assembled , organized , and analysed a mass of authorities , both Scottish and English . |
| 12 | This process analysed a matrix of the returns of n assets for t + 1 periods . |
| 13 | She twiddled a strand of her frizzy blonde hair . |
| 14 | Dorcas sat and twiddled a bit of wire aimlessly . |
| 15 | The yarn was donated by King Cole Ltd , Yarn-a-Rama , Yeoman Yarns and T. Forsell & Sons Ltd — members also contributed a selection of their own yarns . |
| 16 | ‘ You-thanasia ! ’ contributed a boy near the back . |
| 17 | The results of Model Layout Ltd have been brought into account from 1st October 1990 and the company contributed a profit of £11m for the six months to 21st March 1991 . |
| 18 | At the age of 98 he contributed a preface to the biography of Col De Lancey Forth , of the Imperial Camel Corps . |
| 19 | The company contributed a quarter of the working capital requirements of Model Marketing and is jointly responsible for all costs and management decisions of the business . |
| 20 | In 1842 he wrote a prologue for Westland Marston 's play , The Patrician 's Daughter , and in 1844 contributed a poem on religious intolerance , ‘ A Word in Season ’ , to an annual , The Keepsake , edited by Lady Blessington . |
| 21 | At this time Henry contributed a poem to the fund-raising campaign for the construction of Salisbury Cathedral , and also wrote for patrons in Cologne . |
| 22 | who contributed a foreword in which she wrote : ‘ This is a very moving and remarkable first book and the author appears to be that rare being , a born writer . ’ |
| 23 | He was a lively and stylish writer , and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living . |
| 24 | He worked very hard , even in the holidays : he threw himself into all the activities of the school and contributed a number of well-received papers to conferences on education . |
| 25 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 26 | He was an original member of the Philobiblon Society , founded in 1853 by his friend Richard Monckton Milnes ( later first Baron Houghton , q.v. ) , and for whose publications , the Miscellanies , he contributed a number of articles about original documents connected with Venetian painters of the sixteenth century . |
| 27 | During the next voyage of the Beagle , Bynoe contributed a number of new finds for the ornithologist 's work on the Birds of Australia . |
| 28 | The men drank beer from the bottles , and one of them passed round the cigarettes he had bought on the flight , and the blond girl contributed a half-bottle of Stock brandy . |
| 29 | Cavalieri also contributed a setting of Guarini 's dialogue of Juno and Minerva to these wedding celebrations . |
| 30 | But one thing , on behalf of the museum services , I would like to thank Doreen Griffiths for the help she gave us in our exhibition , ’ Memories of Change ’ , which you can see in the exhibition room over there , and she contributed a lot of photographs , and her memories , and allowed herself to be taped and have her memories in our archive , and for that we give her a great thank , because it 's not always easy for the , sometimes for the first time to begin talking into a tape-recorder , so we thank her very much , and thank you very much for coming in and performing for us today ! |