Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing so riled a sixteenth-century conquistadore as the knowledge that some men indulged in sodomy , and Balboa felt no compunction in setting the dreadful war-dogs on the culprits and having them tom to pieces in full public view . |
| 2 | I instinctively had a quick look but I could n't see a damned thing . |
| 3 | At first the beeves were indistinct masses , cold and blurry , but I eventually got a satisfactory materialisation . |
| 4 | Taking one of the white roads , I eventually found a small village . |
| 5 | I additionally sported a wide silver tie furled in buxom Windsor knot . |
| 6 | I personally felt a great affinity with the people of the highlands and islands , although I know this was not so with many of our officers who preferred to work in the south . |
| 7 | I personally led a vigorous campaign to get Niblet removed at the first opportunity . |
| 8 | I personally favoured a psychological explanation . |
| 9 | Now , I served on the island many years later and became friendly with a host of people , and I personally researched a great deal on our raid when not a single bomb fell on the seaplane base . |
| 10 | When I first moved from India ( where I was born ) to England , I obviously had a great tan , and I got called ‘ Indibum ’ and all.that . |
| 11 | I obviously made a huge mistake in thinking that we could ever learn to tolerate one another . |
| 12 | I only died a small death at his words and the way he said them . |
| 13 | I broke my leg in training and I only played a dozen games undefeated , mind you ! |
| 14 | I only asked a polite question . ’ |
| 15 | And did so , with a smiling , ‘ It makes me very glad I only ate a light lunch today . ’ |
| 16 | Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up . |
| 17 | On Saturday morning I was in such a hurry that I only said a quick goodbye to my family , before setting out to walk the few miles into town for the London coach . |
| 18 | ‘ I only had a tiny part in Coriolanus , ’ he said a few years later , ‘ but it was the most exciting experience I 've ever had in the theatre . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I only had a few glasses of wine and I 'm sure the police waited for me . |
| 20 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 21 | I only had a few weeks . |
| 22 | Yes because I went to , I only had a few weeks at er and that was and I would n't stick that . |
| 23 | I only took a wee bit , leave it there and I 'll eat it at the end of the day . |
| 24 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I considered finding another writer but , as I only wanted a talented writer , I feared such a person would want to change the characters . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps it was the wine I had drunk but I only gave a short yell before my hair was grabbed and my head jerked violently back . |
| 27 | As I dragged myself back to the Duck and Forceps , I suddenly felt a strange empathy with the great Mike Channon . |
| 28 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 29 | THE other day , as I was walking along the main street of a small town in Buckinghamshire , meditating , as so often , on time and chance , and in particular on the various chances which had combined to bring me there , I suddenly heard a loud crash , followed by urgent shouts and the desperate revving of a car . |
| 30 | I also vividly recall an occasion when I suddenly heard a loud crash ’ and Ed Chambers , the bombardier , reeled back shouting ‘ I 'm hit — I 'm hit ’ . |