Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once ran into a 10-wheel timber-hauling lorry which , being only about 3 miles long , had momentarily escaped my notice . |
| 2 | I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers . |
| 3 | Will McLewin rolls into town 40 minutes late , parks his battered VW van on double yellow lines in Llanberis High Street and wanders into Pete 's Eats with a mirthful , wondering , combative expression on a face I once compared to a quick and breathing version of Norman Tebbit 's . |
| 4 | The road signs ( France is the only country I know where drivers are warned about beetroot on the road : BETTERAVES , I once saw in a red warning triangle , with a picture of a car slipping out of control ) . |
| 5 | I usually do n't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker . |
| 6 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 7 | By contrast , I once stayed on a tiny Wyoming ranch where the teetotal owner dragged us out of bed at 5 a.m. for long , freezing horse rides into the Rockies . |
| 8 | I once suggested to a French audience that a book on Les silences du Colonel Polybe would be instructive . |
| 9 | I once sat on a Labour-controlled council which went out to tender and would not accept the lowest tender because it did not come from a direct labour department . |
| 10 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 11 | So I quickly dressed as a young man and followed you home to Baker Street . |
| 12 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 13 | I immediately went into a steep turn to port to attack them again . |
| 14 | ‘ I strongly suspected for a long time that there were other men . |
| 15 | I never believed as a Tory MP to be in a situation where I would condemn the actions of a Tory Government in a matter of this kind . ’ |
| 16 | Well it was when I 'd finished my midwifery training I certainly stayed on a little while in er in doing a bit of district work . |
| 17 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 18 | I recently applied for a home-improvement loan that would raise my present mortgage above the building society 's original valuation of the property . |
| 19 | As Ian Brown , of Lee Moor Farm in Northumberland , noted : ‘ A fact that saddened me lately came from a recent survey which suggested that the average family business — not just farms but all family businesses — lasts only 25 years , which I guess is only a generation . |
| 20 | A question which remained obstinately hovering in her mind as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep . |
| 21 | As a young actor you obviously went for a great deal of variety in characters and accents . |
| 22 | She suddenly felt in a great hurry to escape , instinctively disliking this pretty , richly-dressed young American . |
| 23 | A minute or so earlier she might have burst out laughing again at what she considered was an ‘ over the top ’ compliment but — and she owned that seeing Ven Gajdusek was to blame — she suddenly felt in a laughing mood no longer . |
| 24 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 25 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 26 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 27 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 28 | you always went to a proper butcher then , you did n't go to the supermarket because you had a good butcher that you used to go |
| 29 | Exhausted and without much hope for the future , she gradually slipped into a permanent state of depression , which made life even more difficult for Josh , although neither of them realized this . |
| 30 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |