Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NUT , reporting to the Younger Committee on Privacy in 1972 , proposed that reports about a child 's misbehaviour should be kept from parents and that information on the pupil or his home background ‘ which might be gleaned from hearsay or possibly based on malicious gossip ’ should not be kept on a permanent record . |
| 2 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 3 | " Come on , lads , round the track ! " he shouted and pointed to a broad earthen path which circled the park . |
| 4 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 5 | They disembarked and stayed in a tavern near the Tower for the rest of the day . |
| 6 | They grumbled and stirred like a waking kraken . |
| 7 | Our data is collected , validated and checked by a 120 strong team — using multiple sources to ensure reliability . |
| 8 | Her breasts rose and fell on a shaky little breath and a fierce warm ache assailed her loins , the pit of her stomach , her innermost being . |
| 9 | Her breasts rose and fell in a deep sigh . |
| 10 | Pascoe watched a globe as it glowed in the darkness , then rose and fell in a sizzling arc . |
| 11 | Despite the swell the water was smooth and dark and oily , with great masses of weed which rose and fell in a slow rhythm . |
| 12 | He rose and went to a bookcase , where leather-bound books were displayed . |
| 13 | No , that was not what Jean-Claude had in mind , and he rose and went inside a played a few bars of something by Scriabin . |
| 14 | Both sides now were in need of respite ; peace endured until 1369 when the French , refreshed and led by a new and able young monarch , Charles V , confronted the English whose king was on the verge of senility and whose government was divided . |
| 15 | She bent and fiddled with a machine at her feet . |
| 16 | He stopped and thought for a moment . |
| 17 | We stopped and sheltered in a farmer 's barn for the night and the following morning , misty as ever , did little to assuage my suspicions . |
| 18 | Agrippa stopped and looked at a lonely bird shrieking above us as if it was a devil let loose to wander this lonely wilderness . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you out of your … ? his father stopped and looked in a startled manner at his mother , who had given him a sharp dig , then began to cough . |
| 20 | When he had put about a mile between him and the dragon he stopped and collapsed against a tree , which then spoke to him . |
| 21 | Cranston stopped and pointed down a track to a light blinking in the distance . |
| 22 | In a curious visionary text of the seventh century , Barontus , a monk of St Cyran , is told by St Peter not to hide his possessions , but instead to give away twelve solidi , each one weighed and signed by a priest , for the good of his soul . |
| 23 | He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client . |
| 24 | He trained and practised as a solicitor , was excessively conscientious , and always warned his clients , as he warned himself , that any ill-thought out actions could spell disaster of some unspecified kind . |
| 25 | Antoine Bloye is not simply the story of the life of a father recounted and explained by a communist narrator for the edification of a son . |
| 26 | On my right there is a sudden and implausible terrace of little bow-fronted villas from the early thirties , still waiting for this left-over country lane to grow up and get itself surfaced and turned into a bypass . |
| 27 | Police said the raiders had taken £450 worth of sweaters but fled when disturbed by a passer-by . |
| 28 | Even without his rose-coloured glasses , he realized that dressed in a pretty , long frock with her hair freshly waved , Cora-Beth could hold her own against any other young girl in the room . |
| 29 | The following month , however , the President announced that plans for a multiparty system were to be implemented and that elections would be held in February 1991 . |
| 30 | ‘ Jo played that set like a dream , ’ said the team captain , Ann Jones . |