Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 2 | ‘ Lachlan , sit you down again and see have I not got a grand idea . |
| 3 | ‘ I was told that Mr Morley was here and I just needed a brief word . ’ |
| 4 | Well I rather gathered that because erm erm I I actually run a German band a Bavarian band |
| 5 | When I was a doctor I never killed a single patient , which is more of a boast than you might imagine . |
| 6 | the one I 've seen is the one without the tail ropers , its just got a little jet out |
| 7 | It had a house which once had a thatched roof , but it had gone derelict and a tree had started growing in the middle of it . |
| 8 | However , we were not able to know the outcome of those that had been tried ( which probably had a high proportion of not guilty pleas , this being the likely explanation for the delayed return of at least some of the files ) , so our data were , to this extent , incomplete . |
| 9 | Erm , she asked if we were very keen to involve the school , I said yes we were cos she said nobody really taken a great interest in the Royal Quays not |
| 10 | Nobody even made a simple statement . |
| 11 | Ludens , who had never shaved anybody but himself before , soon discovered that shaving somebody else required a different technique . |
| 12 | All she knew was that she presumably represented a new challenge . |
| 13 | People can hold on to seven plus or minus two bits of information and the plus or minus two he called the local factors which are you know whether it 's warm out whether you feel warm or cold or whether or what time of day it is have you just had a heavy lunch whatever it might be . |
| 14 | Have you ever met a retarded person ? ’ |
| 15 | Have you ever seen a Black Widow ? |
| 16 | Have you ever seen a dead person ? " |
| 17 | Have you ever seen a dead enchantment , Fergus ? |
| 18 | Have you ever seen a dead baby , John ? |
| 19 | They also look leaner and fitter — have you ever seen a fat vegetarian ? |
| 20 | And he said , ‘ Have you ever heard a Thin Lizzy record ? ’ |
| 21 | Have you ever experienced a similar problem ? |
| 22 | " Have you ever tried a great bunch of ruddy brown-red wallflowers in an old majolica vase ? |
| 23 | Have you ever had a strong feeling that you may have lived before ? |
| 24 | Have you ever had a complete loss of memory as a result of drinking ? 19 . |
| 25 | Had she really killed a young boy while sleeping ? |
| 26 | When cornered she had promised to come to the showroom , but when the time came there was no Dana and Claudia was lucky if she even got a flimsy excuse . |
| 27 | Have you then made a successful contest of the will ? |
| 28 | ‘ Most are people who previously had a bad reaction to stings from wasps or bees . |
| 29 | " What are you looking at ? " she teased , " have you never seen a naked woman before ? " |
| 30 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |