Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Then I went in to face an English Corporal of ten years ' service , who had a bad reputation .
2 I suppressed so many feelings that I ended up having an emotional breakdown .
3 She broke off to acknowledge an old man trudging by : ‘ Good day to you , Mr Ivey !
4 When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners .
5 But perhaps the biggest thing in popular music took place in 1948 when the LP was introduced ; an innovation of immense importance for the industry and public alike , and not least for Leonard who set about acquiring an enviable collection .
6 We looked up to see an old man in a flapping gallibaya pointing to the eastern shore .
7 It turned out to contain an unseen , jutting corner of the building , and as my shins crashed into it I barely managed to stifle my cry of pain .
8 ‘ In the House of Lords he went on to make an outstanding contribution on Labour 's front-bench .
9 Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) .
10 Believing , at that time , that the source of psychologism was the idea that no objective treatment of the logic of ampliative inference was possible — together with the desire for a logic which treats all forms of inference in a systematic fashion — he set out to provide an appropriate definition of truth , and of validity , and thus to offer a systematic objective foundation for logic .
11 Because of this discomfort he set about developing an air-cushioned sole with his engineer friend Herbert Funck .
12 He stood up holding an automatic pistol and started trying to slot a magazine into the grip .
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