Example sentences of "[subord] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara made a statement rather than asked a question . |
| 2 | He gave her a son 's kiss , than ate a piece of his brother . |
| 3 | Quite clearly , as costs were four times direct revenue , 10 per cent ( for example ) saving in costs had much more effect on the balance than did a potential 20 per cent increase in revenue , so energy was at first concentrated on the cost base . |
| 4 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
| 5 | This does not seem to have succeeded any more than had an earlier regulation that only waste from timber cut with axe or adze was " lawful " , not sawn timber . |
| 6 | Well er if take it as if threw a b a fence all the way round the the flats . |
| 7 | Cos started a union up , but that was after when I was working at Squires but there was n't , there was n't a union , a union at all then , but er there was keen competition between Tonkses and cos they and , I mean they all developed the Yale and er we used to get a lot of visitors around , and er you used to get a lot of American visitors around , but erm it 's a it 's a very very old town is n't it , very old because mother used to do her shopping there and there were n't any buses running , but we used to go by wagonette from er to do the Saturday shopping er Applobish used to run the wagonettes and the daughter used to drive the two horses and |
| 8 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 9 | If had a nursery , all of these children would be able to start their education in their own community , without the expense and the disruption of being taxied out through the traffic jams . |
| 10 | If had a plate of raw carrots |
| 11 | yes what , I simply do n't know , if had an on-going site , where the public was going in would you visit it , in the normal course of your business ? |
| 12 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 13 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 14 | As befitted a man who had sung the pleasures of the ordinary , it occurred on a bus going up Headington Hill , on his way back to Mrs Moore 's house . |
| 15 | As befitted a resurrection , Surkov looked shattered . |
| 16 | In Tsarist Russia , two different traditions stood side by side , as befitted a country straddling two continents . |
| 17 | It should have been cold and raining as befitted a funeral . |
| 18 | As befitted a man who had been an assistant professional in his youth he had great sympathy for those afflicted by golf mania . |
| 19 | Topaz had pictured her as tall and brawny as befitted a martinet . |
| 20 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 21 | Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP . |
| 22 | This was good ; what was even better — and the more remarkable , given that the gentleman was French — was that he would do so in the proper manner : with little apparent effort on his part , with a negligent modesty , as befitted an English gentleman . |
| 23 | Mr Ford , as befitted an engineer , possessed a methodical nature ; he made a careful scrutiny of the sepoy encampment and noted on an improvised map the location of various groups and regiments ; he also came to deduce , by painstakingly observing the arrival and departure of ammunition carts , the position of the main sepoy magazine . |
| 24 | As befitted an earth sign , Taurus was made of clay , a sturdy little bull comically smelling a floret of clover . |
| 25 | AS befitted an industrial training awards evening the ballroom of the Marton Country Club was decked out with glittery disco balls and flashing coloured lights . |
| 26 | They may be as bit a leap forward as the original K-SB3 . |
| 27 | There will be no jam on your bread today if you so much as lay a finger — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room . |
| 30 | Mrs Cynthia Jarrett died during a police search of her home in October 1985 , as did a five-year-old boy , John Shorthouse , when a police gun went off accidentally during a search of his home . |