Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became eventually a conscientious objector . |
| 2 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ Fritz went red , which , Erika thought , made rather a nice change from her own blushing , and looked at his shoes . |
| 4 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 5 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 6 | Aunt Janice was clothed ( shirt and jeans ) , which made rather a refreshing change , and standing in the hallway . |
| 7 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 8 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 9 | But subsequent inquiries revealed rather a different story . |
| 10 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 11 | The Uzbek defence law came into effect on Aug. 6 , under which the country became effectively a neutral , non-nuclear state , renouncing all territorial claims on other states , according to Interfax . |
| 12 | But Japan Air Lines ( JAL ) experienced only a 3.5% drop in the number of passengers carried on international routes in the year to March 31st . |
| 13 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |
| 14 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 15 | THE 101st anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19th got only a muted celebration in Hanoi . |
| 16 | ‘ Once , Ndah was clean through and he was blatantly brought down by Mike Marsh , who got only a yellow card . |
| 17 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 18 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 19 | Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) . |
| 20 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |
| 21 | Twenty years ago liberal justices on the court laid down a series of laws against discriminatory employment practices . |
| 22 | After these tests the railway engineers laid down a maximum sideways acceleration equivalent to tilting the track by 4½ degrees . |
| 23 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 24 | The Barrington Sports Centre in the Algarve laid down a first-class pitch and I arranged a game for the Lord 's Taverners against a Portuguese Invitation XI to open up the ground . |
| 25 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 26 | Back again to the fundamental question of whether or not he was idle , he worried at it like a terrier , then laid down a challenge . |
| 27 | Major-General Frank Kitson , writing in 1977 , laid down a code of basic principles for the guidance of a government fighting terrorism . |
| 28 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 29 | Troops laid down a smokescreen to cover the rescue of the victims , who were not immediately named . |
| 30 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |