Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 2 | After the surgery , told to lose 50 pounds , he duly transformed himself into a jogging optimist . |
| 3 | We eventually found it on a road off the A35 east of Bridport . |
| 4 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 6 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 7 | And whereas Picasso had been forced to reintroduce clues , small fragments of legibility , into his work to render it more accessible to the spectator , Braque , even at his most abstract , instinctively retained them as a link with reality . |
| 8 | Mr Clay went on to tell of his visits to a bone-setter , who successfully healed him after an accident . |
| 9 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 10 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 11 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 12 | It alone provided him with an ideal of peace . |
| 13 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 14 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 15 | Terror suddenly hit her like an iron arrow in the breastbone and her throat seized up and she choked . |
| 16 | Although marketed as a bass by Fender , Leo personally viewed it as a baritone guitar , thus creating a confusion in the minds of the company and ultimately the guitar-buying public , a confusion which was to dog the instrument throughout its career . |
| 17 | He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror . |
| 18 | ‘ Does n't matter , I only brought them as a diversion anyway . |
| 19 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 20 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 22 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 23 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |
| 24 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 25 | And we only did it as a joke ! you ! |
| 26 | He moved from St James 's Hall to a large , sedate house in Lime Grove , and swiftly converted it into a combination of a commercial office , a factory and a school of physical culture . |
| 27 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 28 | He stayed indoors the whole winter , so Cathy only had me as a companion on her walks . |
| 29 | His arms he folded round her , and so held her for a moment passive ; then with a sudden sharp sigh she embraced him again , quivering , and lifted her mouth to him ravenously . |
| 30 | They eagerly embraced me into a family rich with eccentric aunts , brainy brothers , cranky grannies and caustic uncles , and the day they began referring to me as ‘ our Lynne ’ was the happiest day of my life . |