Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again in the top right-hand section of the map the dominant whiteness ceased abruptly in a line extending down from Danzig hsien to Poznan , and thence to Krakow and across to Lvov , ending on the shores of the Black Sea , at Odessa . |
| 2 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 3 | Its acreage expanded quickly as a response to demand fuelled by the emergence of the automobile industry . |
| 4 | The lane near our cottage led only to a farm , the youth hostel poised on the edge of the cliff and a monument to a Welsh poet , put there by his friends . |
| 5 | A low wattage bulb glowed half-heartedly beneath a grubby glass lampshade and on the wall to her right was a light switch , round and brown , and set against an embossed biscuit-coloured paper , fading and patchily stained with damp . |
| 6 | Some , of course , had no choice in the matter , and like discarded Members of Parliament moved reluctantly towards an unwanted destiny . |
| 7 | Although Stalin died in 1953 and Soviet communism changed gradually from a totalitarian regime into a more conventional authoritarian state run by a collective leadership , the de-Stalinization of Western communism proceeded very slowly . |
| 8 | It covered all land and air forces , but not paramilitary forces , on which the treaty framework provided only for an exchange of views to take place . |
| 9 | He stood back in the street , the rain stinging his eyes , wetting him to the skin , getting in his mouth and eyes ; warm rain , huge hard drops , slicking and sticking the clothes to his body ; erotic , making his heart beat faster in a sudden , squally sexual fantasy ; she would invite him in … no , better yet , she would turn up in the street , having been out , also wet to the skin , she would look at him … they would go in … |
| 10 | Siegfried 's jaw clenched tight for a moment then he motioned with his hand . |
| 11 | During a night shoot outside the Locarno Ballroom , a leather-clad punk skidded past on a skateboard — pulled by a pair of Dobermanns . |
| 12 | The door from the terrace led directly into a long , somewhat overfurnished salon , cool and dim after the heat and brightness outside , its deep window-sills shaded by closed shutters and crowded with knick-knacks . |
| 13 | The five high-order digits of the key used directly as an address . |
| 14 | The motion-picture industry moved instinctively against a man whose message aroused dissent and , as we have seen , there were critics who could see even as the films were released that they offered humbug and prejudice masquerading as philosophy . |
| 15 | Wilson presents these in a chapter devoted entirely to a discussion of the practices of each of the 12 laudesi companies . |
| 16 | Abaft the after head is a large locker accessed either through a door in the head or from the cockpit . |
| 17 | Clamorous criticism of this category of capital murder came simultaneously from an opposing tendency . |
| 18 | At that moment ‘ a white light shone forth like a sword ’ from Gandalf , as many people see ‘ the light that shone ’ round Éowyn and Faramir as they come down to the Houses of Healing . |
| 19 | A huge ceiling fan turned slowly above an open area in the centre which was laid out with bentwood chairs and marble-topped tables for the bar customers . |
| 20 | The car slewed sideways into a Pontiac travelling towards it . |
| 21 | Counsel on both sides seem to have accepted that an Anton Piller order could have extra-territorial reach ; the challenge made for the defendant rested partly on an argument that an English court could not deal with title to or possession of foreign immovables ( rejected as there was an equity between the parties ) and partly on a plea of forum non conveniens ( rejected on the facts , and because reliance on an application in an alternative forum would cause a delay during which assets could be disposed of ) . |
| 22 | The Confederation of British Industry stepped forward with a plan that practically doubled the sum to be spent by the government : £21 billion to rewrite the nation 's economic geography and save it from catastrophe . |
| 23 | After a 5 minute resting period , in patients with PVT or liver disease , 370 mbq ( 10 mCi ) of 9 9 m Tc pertechnetate were administered by bolus peripheral intravenous injection followed rapidly by a 30 ml saline flush to ensure rapid transit of the radionuclide into the heart . |
| 24 | On the fringe of the political scene , the Daily Mail campaigned vigorously for a coalition under a new leader and various important figures in the City of London let it be known that a Socialist Government would be a financial disaster . |
| 25 | With the slope in their favour and the wind at their backs , Hammer pressed hard for an early goal to unsettle the favourites . |
| 26 | That opposition began locally with a meeting in Fintown , Co . |
| 27 | The hairs on the ovoid waved gently in a non-existent breeze . |
| 28 | Bryn 's mouth worked silently for a few seconds . |
| 29 | The study focused mainly upon a group of twelve ‘ lads ’ in a school in Birmingham whom Willis followed around school and outside . |
| 30 | It set in motion what we call a debris flow , a mixture of 50-ton boulders , rocks , sand and gravel bound together in a kind of slurry , which came rolling down the side canyon and dammed the river . |