Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see whether individual subjects performed differently on those junctions which they personally knew well a recognition measure for each subject on each junction was calculated . |
| 2 | The man long-sufferingly tore apart a paper bag for him to autograph , shoved it onto his hand , and said furiously , ’ Have n't you even got anything to write with ? ’ |
| 3 | The Mayor , Coun Trevor Lloyd , yesterday handed over a £400 cheque towards the cost of going to the event in Winchester in June . |
| 4 | WEST Ham defender Colin Foster yesterday turned down a £425,000 move to crisis club Nottingham Forest . |
| 5 | He once broke off a phone call saying the police were waiting to take him on a tour of one of their up-to-date rape suites . |
| 6 | A lady friend of mine , working in an aircraft factory , tells me she once picked up a wage packet of £40 a week . |
| 7 | Police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators , who also burned down a trade union office and fired guns outside the office of the National Front for Change and Democracy ( FNCD — a loose coalition group led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide ) because both had allegedly called for Préval 's resignation . |
| 8 | By 1985 GM-EDS was developing such networks in Britain , Germany and elsewhere in Europe ; it was incorporating pre-existing operations in its Vauxhall and Opel subsidiaries and also took over a Unilever system . |
| 9 | The landlord , after obtaining judgment in the county court for part of the rent owed , later took out a distress warrant for arrears said to amount to £17,866 , and the bailiffs entered the premises and took walking possession . |
| 10 | Just to be on the safe side I also set up a stick float and a bleak whip but I was hoping I would n't need them — so much for being positive . |
| 11 | Mr Dumigan also explained why a relaxation order of the legal requirements was applicable at the Comber shop . |
| 12 | They watched , thrilled and a little scared , as he levered it up , and from the darkness within pulled out a tin box . |
| 13 | 1 MARIO was the 1980 brainchild of Japanese computer genius Shigeru Miyamoto but originally had only a walk-on part in the game Donkey Kong . |
| 14 | She even turned down a government offer of extra clothing coupons on the grounds that hand-me-downs were quite good enough for her refugees . |
| 15 | They even decked out a Cantona video in black and red to get the arseholes buying it , but apparently is was virtually all Leeds and france on it ! hehehe |
| 16 | During the negotiations , the Bush administration reportedly promised to drop the indictment of Noriega , and even wrote out a draft court order dismissing the charges . |
| 17 | TEXTILES giant Coats Viyella today ran up a £35m bill . |
| 18 | The man then pulled out a kitchen knife from under his coat and allegedly repeatedly stabbed the girl . |
| 19 | Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell , and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4–2 ahead . |
| 20 | The 499 ton salvage tug then sent out a Mayday distress call to the effect that she was on fire and sinking . |
| 21 | He went to the shelves lining one wall and selected a handful of cassettes , then picked up a transistor radio . |
| 22 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |