Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 2 | Farncombe took the lead after ten minutes , but Haslemere soon equalised through an own goal . |
| 3 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |
| 4 | Atletico scored through an own goal from Juan Carlos . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most fitting tribute to Billy Turner came from a former Palace Manager , Jack Tresadern . |
| 6 | Macari 's reputation for betting stretches back to his days with Celtic , when he rose to prominence under the tutelage of the club 's great manager , the late Jock Stein , a man who had his own formidable reputation when it came to an each way bet . |
| 7 | He tried other doors : one opened into a former barn , now a workshop . |
| 8 | Among these were PPB , which survived in two departments until the mid 1970s , PAR and MBO , which flourished in a few pilot studies . |
| 9 | In the first such case in the UK , Leeds-based John Richardson Computers Ltd has successfully argued that copyright should protect the look and feel of a program ; the court decided that a plaintiff does not need to show source code has been copied to prove infringement , and that copying non-literal aspects of a program , such as structure and organisation , could well constitute infringement ; the company 's dispute arose with a former employee over rival applications aimed at the pharmaceutical industry ; in the past , copyright cases have dealt exclusively with copying of actual program code . |
| 10 | This course began with an all day Saturday event looking at learning styles and modes of behaviour using a variety of psychometric tests . |
| 11 | From High Spy there is a short descent to Dale Head Tarn ( 0.75 mile south ) followed by a half mile ascent to the top of Dale Head . |
| 12 | If the exotic is what you seek , you might try Omar Khayyam from India , made from Ugni Blanc , Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay , grown at a high altitude in the Sahyadri mountains near Bombay , and vinified by a former winemaker of Piper Heidsieck . |
| 13 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 14 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |
| 15 | She skidded on a little way , then side-slipped back towards him . |
| 16 | Allegations of a government-sponsored campaign against the PPP [ see pp. 38152 ; 38338 ] grew after a former adviser to Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif claimed that he had been a member of one of two " election cells " created by Sharif 's Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) which had " rigged the 1990 elections by adding 20,000 bogus votes " in a number of constituencies to ensure the defeat of the PPP [ see pp. 37763-64 ] . |
| 17 | A spillage of fuel oil at an ICI Billingham depot resulted in an all night clean-up operation . |
| 18 | During 1965 , Crawford met former dancer Gabrielle Lewis , who had trained as an actress at drama school and appeared in a few stage plays . |
| 19 | I had about a half hour to kill , I reckoned . |
| 20 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
| 21 | She was silent for a moment , then said in a more conciliator " tone : |
| 22 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 23 | We stayed in a few bed and breakfasts when we thought we needed a wash , and a few youth hostels . |
| 24 | But seriously I think some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the mag — you 'd see far worse in many ‘ family newspapers ’ . |