Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the CEGB only began to build up a fund for decommissioning in 1976 . |
| 2 | Of course the young girls , they sometimes started off very enthusiastic and perhaps did do quite a lot without realising the implications and effect of it but the older women often had trouble keeping up . |
| 3 | At the door he did not immediately turn and grab the handle but put his hand behind him and slowly opened the door and in doing so had to walk forward a step . |
| 4 | Jessamy finally began to relax just a fraction . |
| 5 | Detective Sergeant Mick Ornellus , of Clacton CID , said the two men either offered or already had carried out a number of jobs for her and tricked her into parting with the money . |
| 6 | LABOUR MP Dennis Skinner yesterday demanded to know how a summit catering contract was awarded to Pru Leith 's group of firms which employs Cabinet Minister William Waldegrave 's wife Caroline . |
| 7 | John also began building up a collection of gramophone records ; Herbert gave him pocket money to buy one a week . |
| 8 | The Chancellor was to be elected by a majority of the Bundestag to act as the head of the executive , and could only be removed from office by a ‘ constructive vote of no confidence ’ : that is , if the Bundestag voted a Chancellor out , they also had to put forward an alternative to replace him . |
| 9 | Consequently , she was again in financial difficulties in 1617 , when she unsuccessfully attempted to set up a school in St Giles in the Fields for the education of children of the nobility . |
| 10 | ‘ We originally agreed to set up a group for mothers whose children were being dealt with in a child protection context , ’ explains the counselling project co-ordinator Hazel Hickson . |
| 11 | Whereas before I had more or less ignored the game and engaged myself in gossipy conversation with whoever was E ) laying opposite me , I now began to act out a parody of the ludicrous pastime in which I found myself , tackling everyone in sight , yelling for the ball to be passed to me , jumping up and down , and generally getting in everyone 's way . |
| 12 | There was Pete in his class who really needed to shave twice a day , who had a deep voice and a very hairy chest , and he was a known bender ; and there was Stuart , who could n't look at a cloud or a diagram in TD lessons or even sometimes a house without seeing a version of the female anatomy , and lie was as smooth as a babe . |
| 13 | Ted Ray , one of the judges , reminded me that I now had to work out an act for ‘ The All Winners Show ’ , which happened every seventh week , a contest between the six previous show winners . |
| 14 | After 20 minutes the officers accepted a glass of wine from their enforced hostess and one , until restrained by the other , even began to write out a receipt for what had been taken . |
| 15 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
| 16 | The white , scoured branches of trees that years ago had eked out an existence at a sheltered place beneath the cliff , lay about like pieces of sculpture , fashioned by the weather . |
| 17 | He walked over to the neatly stacked rods and selected one , then bent to pick up a wicker fishing box from a corner of the room . |
| 18 | He threw the orange to one of the theatre-goers , then stooped to pick up a glass jug , keeping the book and the saucepan going . |
| 19 | Dickson then managed to bounce off an umpire boat while doing his 270 ° penalty turn . |
| 20 | Mr How had set up a property firm called Prosperpoint , and transfered cash from his clients investment funds through to a bank in the Isle of Man , then on to Switzerland , then back to Prosperpoint . |
| 21 | How had set up a property firm called Prosperpoint , and transferred investment cash from clients like Mr and Mrs Artus to a bank in the Isle of Man , then on to Switzerland , and back to Prosperpoint . |
| 22 | Anna put down her coffee mug , stubbed out her cigarette , lit another , then stretched to pick up a book from her bedside-table . |
| 23 | The crash mayhem occurred after an incident at about 11am yesterday in which a man in his 20s allegedly tried to hold up a post office in Thelwall , Warrington . |
| 24 | The crash mayhem occurred following an incident at about 11am yesterday in which a man in his 20s allegedly tried to hold up a post office in Thelwall , Warrington . |
| 25 | She suddenly felt totally drained ; relief at getting home again had brought about a release of all her emotions . |
| 26 | she did n't , she never bent to pick up a flower |
| 27 | The pruning methods therefore had to cut out a band that was neither too narrow ( and thus pruned the correct solution ) nor too broad ( resulting in a combinatorial explosion of hypotheses ) . |