Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe looked round desperately for a place to put his hat , and finally laid it lovingly on a shelf . |
| 2 | She had always regarded her purely as a teacher , a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again . |
| 3 | Her mother had once told her scornfully about a crazy book produced on the contemporary new wave of evolutionary theory : a book which abandoned Darwin and returned to his predecessor , Lamark . |
| 4 | Boswell had by now made it plain over a number of years that he wished to write Johnson 's Life . |
| 5 | She believes that Hewlett-Packard has now carved itself enough of a breathing space to be able to consider various options at both ends of the market . |
| 6 | She believes HP has now carved itself enough of a breathing space to be able to consider various options at both ends of the market . |
| 7 | But it has n't given him much of a clue about setting up a restaurant . |
| 8 | Once again our Branch President has kindly offered her home as a venue . |
| 9 | Erm we have n't got anybody here with a beard so we ca n't demonstrate and anyway it would be a dangerous experiment if we did , but supposing you tried to strangle me and I 've got a big beard you know , a kind of Karl Marx style beard well a big beard , er you get your hands round my neck and what can I do ? |
| 10 | But I have n't called you here for a professional opinion . ’ |
| 11 | Among those elected was a former dissident , Daniel Chipenda , who had earlier put himself forward as a candidate for a new post of vice-chairman of the party . |
| 12 | Dexter remembered the name and vintage from a description Blanche had reluctantly given him once of a feast at her old Cambridge college . |
| 13 | No , I 've never seen them there on a Thursday |
| 14 | It is in the same field as the star 41 Capricorni ( 5.5 ) and is close to the limit of visibility with binoculars ; I have never seen it clearly without a telescope . |