Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you suggesting that Barney made up his mind to kill Angy and cold-bloodedly chose a method that would throw suspicion on someone else ? |
| 2 | Throughout his life Blumlein was a trustworthy and loyal man with a passionate interest in the arts , music , and aviation — he held a private pilot 's licence from 1929 and often flew a biplane or Moth . |
| 3 | Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency . |
| 4 | Monckton Milnes , a good memorialist but a forgettable poet , visited the lake in 1838 and later wrote a poem about the tragedy , taking a more honour ably sentimental line towards it than had the morbid locals : |
| 5 | When he found it , he tapped along the feed pipe at random and then gave a couple of good , square bangs on the connectors before he tried the starter button . |
| 6 | Greece applied for membership in 1975 and finally became a Member State on 1 January 1981 . |
| 7 | Cook was appointed agent for Nile passenger traffic by the Khedive of Egypt in 1870 and eventually had a fleet of seventeen large vessels and about thirty-three smaller dahabeeyahs and pinnaces . |
| 8 | She completed victory by taking the tiebreak 7-5 but not before she lost her serve to 5-5 and then saved a set point at 5-6 . |
| 9 | I remember a recent visit to India where I hardly ate meat at all and never saw a chip . |
| 10 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 11 | SLIGHTLY tired but spiritually refreshed a group from Middlesbrough area returned at the end of October from a memorable series of visits . |
| 12 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 13 | Ted joined the Palace from Hull City in December 1911 and immediately scored a hat-trick on his debut ( one of only four Palace men ever to achieve this feat ) at West Ham on 30 December ( 6–1 ) , and then repeated the feat a week later when Bristol Rovers came to The Palace ( 4–1 ) . |
| 14 | I have now had the opportunity to look over the attached and also asked a colleague to do a quick proof-read . |
| 15 | I positioned the rose first and then tucked a rose leaf either side of it . |
| 16 | Similarly you get players such as Pallister who strulled at first and then became a bargain . |
| 17 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first and then stole a single . |
| 18 | Some have been initially successful and then suffered a relapse , suggesting that at least some of the cases owed their success more to the Hawthorne effect than to a deeper understanding of people . |
| 19 | Parkin looked worried but then snorted a laugh through his chiselled nose . |
| 20 | John Glendenen was dropped at gully on two and also survived a couple of injudicious waves outside the off stump . |
| 21 | His father is a veterinary surgeon , and he himself assisted his father for a year or two and then became a groom . |
| 22 | His most important contact was Hayling , who had left Ford in 1983 and now had a job monitoring multinational companies in the GLC 's Industry and Employment Branch . |