Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 2 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 4 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 5 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 6 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 7 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 8 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 9 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 10 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |
| 11 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 12 | Owner Dave Vernon has lately replaced it with a rare late-sixties single-tailed Mooney M-10 Cadet version ( right ) which he flew solo from Los Angeles to Miami . |
| 13 | Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only . |
| 14 | He can console himself with a winter passage booked to Australia , and the knowledge that his talent and determined character have finally set him on a rightful path to the pinnacle of the game . |
| 15 | I had already discussed it with a fair proportion of them as individuals in the previous weeks . |
| 16 | DTC have already subjected us to a six-day , 20-minute daily service and a half hourly evening service . |
| 17 | To her astonishment , though , when the Dobermann had just held her in a gentle restraining grip , and no more than that , she could see that there were already small signs of bruising beginning to show on either side of her ankle . |
| 18 | Whisked ‘ Andrew has always regarded her as a good mother but he can no longer turn a blind eye to her behaviour . |
| 19 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 20 | The Esprit is a twin humbucker guitar , a departure from the norm for Fender ; while they are justly famed for their single coil pickups , their humbuckers have always struck me as a little tame … |
| 21 | ‘ We 've totally removed them in a single market , but there are still elements of harmonisation to be completed . |
| 22 | and they 've also got it in a dark green which is really nice . |
| 23 | He 'd probably achieved it on a pleasant little trip to the Bahamas . |
| 24 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The Soviets have now transferred him to a Labour Camp . ’ |
| 26 | Miguel had really entrusted her with a great secret . |
| 27 | He had pride at stake , deposed champion Senna to humble — and a point to underline to the team that has negligently abandoned him to a new career in America . |
| 28 | Turnour has changed from being relaxed and comfortable with what he was about to do to feeling uneasy in a strange environment which has now put him in a bad mood . |
| 29 | Carritt bought it , correctly identified it as a lost early work , and magnanimously sold it to the National Gallery , London , far below the market price . |
| 30 | It is also probable that the many forest tribes who were familiar with orang-utans simply regarded them as a different-looking lot of wild people . |