Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this event sites from which they were removed could be returned to their former use as agricultural land , or left to return to a natural condition , without serious difficulty . |
| 2 | In these subjects the OR continued to occur at a high level throughout training , a result suggesting that a stimulus that fails to predict its consequences reliably will continue to receive some form of processing . |
| 3 | The pale daylight that entered came from a single tiny window in the front wall , but there were no curtains . |
| 4 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |
| 5 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 6 | It was while I was in this slough of despond that my publisher rang to ask if I would like to read a manuscript that needed transforming into a readable book before it could be published . |
| 7 | Fraser 's relief at being able to resume a career that looked destined for a premature encounter with the scrapheap is manifest . |
| 8 | A Hampshire hotel hit on a clever country house compromise with gentle piano recordings that appeared to come from a live performer in the next room — creating a delightful backdrop to afternoon tea . |
| 9 | After a week of fighting , the war that had begun with a thunderous high-tech blitzkrieg in the skies over Baghdad had not yet delivered visible proof of victory . |
| 10 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 11 | The 5Os was a time when the hatred , fears and austerities of wartime Europe were still in recent collective memory , as were the two ounces of mildewy cheese that had to do for a whole week 's ration in those blackout , blitz and Mother Hubbard 's cupboard days of the previous decade . |
| 12 | For all that they were wrapped in fog , the revolver that had appeared in a gloved hand was all too visible to Sergeant Joe . |
| 13 | But all the will-power she could muster could not shut out the desolate sense of emptiness that had closed like a cold hand round her heart . |
| 14 | Thus began the last chapter of a case that had started as a simple bank robbery , then extended into one of murder and fraud , and drugs . |
| 15 | She went to bed in her own room , still full of pictures and possessions that had belonged to a previous and vanished Phoebe . |
| 16 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 17 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 18 | The dream was fractured into a kaleidoscope of shapes that refused to form into a coherent whole . |
| 19 | The bolt was a hook of thick metal that snapped shut around a U-shaped rod the thickness of a pen . |
| 20 | Well over a hundred friends had been invited to luncheon at Woburn Abbey , but they were sworn to secrecy , and asked to arrive by a special route , so that no one went past the house . |
| 21 | Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September . |
| 22 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 23 | The only access to the basement was down a flight of steep steps , and involved ducking under a low ceiling . |
| 24 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |
| 25 | The whore sniffed and tried to walk with a ladylike gait ; she seemed a little drunk and occasionally stopped to pause for breath . |
| 26 | He had his father 's black hair , a strong sun-tan , and seemed filled with a manic energy ; ready and eager to enjoy both Wavebreaker and our company . |
| 27 | Hobhouse was educated at Eton ( 1875–9 ) and Christ Church , Oxford , and seemed destined for a military career , attending the Royal Military College , Sandhurst . |
| 28 | His eyes moved along the branch and came to rest on a brilliant blue bird sitting there . |
| 29 | The transporter squeezed between the two halves of the parted face , and came to rest in a large , high-ceilinged , circular room , like the inside of a drum . |
| 30 | On my next visit to Southampton I tried in vain for a chat with the young man who had just won a match for Hampshire and deserved to bask in a discreet amount of praise . |