Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently re-appointed vice-chairman of the Teesside Development Corporation , he still does exercises each day but has stopped bike riding ‘ after nearly getting killed a couple of times in London . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't seem to find a copy of any report which was produced as a result of this survey , and I have no recollection of ever having received a copy , but presumably it would contain enough data for your new placement student to re-input . |
| 3 | Bush thus maintained his record of never having had a veto overridden in Congress . |
| 4 | By falling 27 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority the House ensured that Bush maintained his record of never having had a veto overturned . |
| 5 | Within about 10 days she knew that when the phone rang at night it would be Tony , despite never having seen a phone before . |
| 6 | It seems everyone is intrigued by Morse , whose past until now has remained a secret . |
| 7 | no one until now has produced a biography of Graham Gooch . |
| 8 | It grew to its current size by selling mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s but since then has seen a decline in this business . |
| 9 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 10 | Despite the restriction of the survey to schools which had been scheduled at least to have made a start on the review , only four-fifths of the teachers included actually had . |
| 11 | Although it might be too much to say that Woodhead and colleagues have found the proverbial smoking gun that settles the issue of deep mantle recycling , they do seem at least to have found a gun . |
| 12 | Such liberal theories tend then to adopt some variant of social contract theory or at least have inherited a vision of society in which an instrumental view of society — society as constructed by individuals for the fulfilment of essentially individual ends — is adopted . |
| 13 | You should by now have received a copy of the Committee 's decision and the Director of Planning 's report . |