Example sentences of "piece of [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hung her oilskin on the hook , left her muddy boots on a piece of newspaper and went into the living room . |
| 2 | Harry explored between his back teeth with his tongue and , failing to extract the piece of gristle that had lodged there , used the tip of his knife as a toothpick . |
| 3 | He was eating a cold sausage ; his tongue located a piece of gristle and spat it out . |
| 4 | I met up with Pat in a small room at the front of the house tucking into a breakfast of fried eggs and an obscure piece of meat that took up about half of his mess-tin . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , Boyo , it 's either this or that , ’ said Taff , pointing to the alternative — a large piece of meat that had been roasted over a fire and looked most unappetising . |
| 6 | He said he 'd probably get it anyway , that he 'd baited the trap with a piece of meat that had gone off . |
| 7 | Masklin tried pictures at random and got several different sorts of fruit , a squeaky green vegetable thing , and a piece of meat that tasted rather like smoked salmon . |
| 8 | Burun impaled a piece of meat and forked it delicately into his mouth . |
| 9 | It was worn and comfortable-looking , like an old , well-loved piece of furniture that had been kept for years . |
| 10 | Fortunately the ancient piece of furniture that answered to ‘ sofa ’ lacked an arm . |
| 11 | The frozen fingers of death clutched at everything , were curled round every piece of furniture and clawed every drape . |
| 12 | None of us would want to find that , at the end of our work , we had produced a piece of legislation that increased the delay in obtaining the approval necessary to build new railways . |
| 13 | The superintendent tore off a piece of nan and wiped the curry sauce from her plate . |
| 14 | What it turned out to be was a lump of clay that I 'd moulded into what looked like a piece of black and wrapped up in silver paper just fooling about and they really freaked out and they kicked me out and had the police involved and everything . |
| 15 | He moved uncomfortably and his chair scraped against the dusty edge of the grate , dislodging a small carved piece of stone that had been propped against the hearth . |
| 16 | Once uncomfortably aboard the wizard moved his white-knuckle grip to a convenient piece of harness and prodded K ! sdra lightly with the sword . |
| 17 | She picked up a piece of pottery and turned it over . |
| 18 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 19 | And feeling sick , and shaken , he placed the dead animal in a piece of sacking and went into the house . |
| 20 | A piece of land that had held no particular interest for him at all until the arrival of its new estate manager . |
| 21 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 22 | In 1810 the Factory bought the piece of land and opened a fund to raise money for the building of a church . |
| 23 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
| 24 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 25 | A : ah a book that had been written or a piece of music that had been written or a painting or a — |
| 26 | Then … find a piece of music that ran to the same metre , and with that for my model … divide my ‘ composition ’ into bars . |
| 27 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 28 | Benjamin borrowed a quill and a piece of parchment and copied the verse down , word for word . |
| 29 | In broad Scots he asked Selkirk for his authority , the soldier flourished a piece of parchment and told him to hurry . |
| 30 | The Roman Catholics were particularly vulnerable , yet impossible to dislodge or ignore , and when Cardinal Hinsley wrote a letter to The Times in November 1942 , Churchill cut it out , pasted it to a piece of cardboard and sent it to Butler with the cheerful note : ‘ There you are , fixed , old cock . ’ |