Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pottery was as late as any in Roman Britain and even included one sherd thought to be ‘ Romano-Saxon ’ since it had impressed on to it a Saxon type of stamp ; however , the vessel was wheel-turned and clearly of Romano-British manufacture . |
| 2 | And so she behind all the way but caught up with her a few metres |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , while you 're here supporting your partner you can tell me to my face why you intend walking out on me a second time in my life . ’ |
| 4 | It 's nice a wee taste of haggis now and again , not that you 'd want to eat it too often , it does tend to come back on you a wee bit , does n't it ? |
| 5 | He has strong , agile and indeed superb hands ; in the palm of his raised , right hand he holds out to you a miniature city , complete with dome , bridges and towers , the freedom of which he is offering you and which he has promised to protect . |
| 6 | She fell towards them , wishing she had the energy to turn her gaze away from this blankness , but as he moved closer to her a little light caught his cheek and she saw , or thought she saw , tears there , spilling from those dark eyes . |
| 7 | He came up to me a few moments ago and said ‘ Do you remember me ? ’ |
| 8 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 9 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 10 | He told the Prime Minister : ‘ We have handed over to you a united country . |
| 11 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 12 | The same thing happens with Pele 's tears ; they draw off behind them a long hair-like tail of glass , which may be a metre or more long . |
| 13 | His decrepitude — the historically stained clothes , that dangle of egg-white slobber from the chin — set off in me a general adolescent anger against life and its inevitable valedictory condition ; a feeling which smoothly translated itself into hatred of the person undergoing that condition . |
| 14 | The girl in the mirror was a total contrast to the haunted image which had stared back at her a few hours earlier . |
| 15 | Even so , PNP has clearly brought along with it a few entirely new initiatives . |
| 16 | The competitive nature of public examinations was brutally brought home to me a few years ago when I was first impressed by the instructional potential of programmed learning . |
| 17 | I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed . |
| 18 | It does n't detach itself completely , though ; as it falls , it draws out behind it a thin , flexible thread of glass , which seems to stretch almost indefinitely . |
| 19 | Andrewes used to carry around with him a small manuscript book in which he found his refuge from the intrigues , the coarseness and the immorality of daily life at the Court of King James . |
| 20 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 21 | I looked in on you a short while ago and you were fast asleep . |
| 22 | The encounter had lasted no longer than one minute at the outside , yet she took away with her a vivid memory of that thin handsome face , with its grimly set lips and smouldering brown eyes . |
| 23 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 24 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 25 | I 'd gone out with him a few times — pictures in Penzance , that sort of thing , and father being away … |
| 26 | In her mind she talked to him , telling him about her life , day-to-day things , carrying on with him a long intimate dialogue . |
| 27 | Goleniewski had been in touch with the CIA since 1958 during which time he had passed on to them a considerable amount of information that had led to the arrest of several important spies . |
| 28 | But the AA thinks commuters might not get away with it a third time . |
| 29 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 30 | Are we no better than snails , to carry round with us a whole house of past circumstance ? ’ |