Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 2 | Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’ |
| 3 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
| 4 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 5 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 6 | On my way down I pass through a forest of art deco bronze and ivory figures to be sold tomorrow . |
| 7 | So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something . |
| 8 | Apart from a price list , so we had a price list , and I thought right so I went to a book shop and I tried to find a book on masks nothing . |
| 9 | So I advertised in a newspaper for a job as a governess . |
| 10 | So I put on a coat . |
| 11 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 12 | So I mean from a couple of bits of information we could tell they had sheep , they probably ate them , teeth marks on it , things like that . |
| 13 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 14 | so they had like an hour break so I spent in a room . |
| 15 | To do so I drove into a petrol station by the BBC Television Centre in order to do a U-turn . |
| 16 | so I think in a way it would be quite nice to sit down with somebody from each of the colleges to hammer out the syllabus because Napier will see it from Napier 's point of view about what 's easiest for them to teach and what this and what the other whereas I suspect if you also sat down with and and people you might get a broader discussion base |
| 17 | So I confessed to a possibility , though it was only six weeks since Sintra and there was still room for doubt . ’ |
| 18 | Anyway , so I appeared before a Judge , the only time when I 've really been , he was judging me . |
| 19 | Suddenly she felt at a loss . |
| 20 | Impatiently she reached for a tissue and wiped it off . |
| 21 | And Ford was the same , you could have a run round in a , up and down you know in a sort of , in any of the latest models and oh there were some great commercial er pavilions in the , in the place really . |
| 22 | As we straighten our tie and suck on a Cloret , we reflect gloomily that the Mail on Sunday categorized Denice 's former dates as ‘ rich , famous and suntanned ’ and we try to hope that perhaps she feels like a change . |
| 23 | So she goes to a clinic and exactly the same thing happens . |
| 24 | So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum . |
| 25 | So you go in a plane ? |
| 26 | so you know at a pinch you could probably run it like that and I do n't suppose anybody would notice the difference but , you know , just in terms of you know making things look attractive |
| 27 | So you look for a conductor |
| 28 | I 'm dealing with two estates where no will has been made and the house was in the name of husband alone who died without a will and the net result is that on on law on intestacy neither of the those surviving widows is of right entitled to the house and in both cases there are children and as you can imagine there is a certain amount of anguish about it . |
| 29 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |
| 30 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |