Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered how he would be , whether she 'd cope , what she would say , and had just decided to rehearse an opening line when , with a jolt deep in the pit of her stomach , she saw him , weaving through the clusters of people , coming towards her , looking , as always , more handsome than she remembered , dressed in dark , well-cut trousers and a crisp white shirt that revealed just a glimpse of his tanned chest , the strength of dark matted hair . |
| 2 | And that caused quite a bit of resentment , I can tell you — the Americans and the Japanese competing for our future . |
| 3 | Boy did not keep in this box the letters that arrived once a week at his flat , regularly , on a Tuesday morning , letters which also began ‘ Dear Boy ’ or ‘ My Dear Boy ’ , but which were all signed ‘ Father ’ . |
| 4 | We could not accept a treaty that contained either a commitment at the beginning to a federal vocation or a review clause at the end — this is the question I have just answered — which implied or stated that the result of the review must be a movement towards federalism . |
| 5 | November 2nd 1981 had me arriving at the mere on a calm , mild , dull day that saw hardly a ripple on the surface . |
| 6 | In good English that had only a speck of accent , just a faint edge that you would wonder every time you heard him if it really was some kind of accent . |
| 7 | We 've also held a conference of a more general kind on the situation of refugees in the United Kingdom , in which a report was produced , that particularly highlighted the legal situation of the refugees , that had quite an impact among international organizations like United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , which has served as basis for a number of proposals to change the present legal regime of refugees in the UK . |
| 8 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 9 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 10 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 11 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 12 | The tip slid through the tweed and penetrated about a quarter of an inch into the fleshy part of the leg . |
| 13 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 14 | She does high-impact classes 2-4 times a month , dabbles in Callanetics and swam once a week for a month . |
| 15 | The Luggage yawned , and moved forward a fraction of an inch . |
| 16 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 17 | In 1798 Caballero , ‘ the enemy of enlightenment ’ , swept the intellectuals and ‘ Jansenists ’ from office and instilled anew a fear of France and progress in the court . |
| 18 | Russell gulped another mouthful from his pint of beer and ripped open a bag of crisps . |
| 19 | In its place the Social Fund removed the right to a grant and instituted instead a system of discretionary loans . |
| 20 | Eventually more than ten people , including Bott , were arrested and spent over a year in jail before the end of the lengthy legal proceedings . |
| 21 | Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together . |
| 22 | ‘ He was nearly knocked down at Doncaster and finished just a neck behind Lochsong . |
| 23 | He made his debut five years ago and collected just a handful of caps before stringing a four-match run together at the end of last season . |
| 24 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |
| 25 | Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close . |
| 26 | This done , she whipped up a piece of tape , which she tied some inches from the bottom ; then , while still holding on to the hair with one hand , her other hand shot out and pulled open a drawer from which she grabbed a pair of large scissors . |
| 27 | The end of the bridge was clearly visible as it grew out of the far bank , and needed only a couple of rafts to make it complete . |
| 28 | In one such incident , described in some detail , he tells us how ‘ one Friday night an enormous navvy pushed the head of a constable through a shop window and started quite a battle in which uniformed and plainclothes men cheerfully joined in ’ . |
| 29 | He conquered Cyprus in three months and established there a base of operations for the Christian forces in the East . |
| 30 | At yesterday 's launch of Brook 's Impressions de Pelleas , his reworking of Debussy 's opera , Robert Palmer , Glasgow 's director of performing arts , introduced Brook as ‘ one who had brought to the Tramway the hallmark of excellence and established there a benchmark for others ’ achievement . ’ |