Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We originally started with a six-session package but later increased its length to eight sessions . |
| 2 | ‘ We never played with a full deck ’ , complained Clair George . |
| 3 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 4 | He was puzzled for a moment , then he suddenly remembered with a slight feeling of shock . |
| 5 | Morgan , hammered down 22 aces , including one to bring up his first match point after more than two hours , which he coolly converted with a bludgeoning service winner . |
| 6 | It still burned with a harsh , blinding glare and through it she could see vague shapes , presumably the others . |
| 7 | Six months after his leg had been broken , he still walked with a perceptible limp , and this morning he looked harassed . |
| 8 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 9 | Mr Getty , by omitting the letter ‘ i ’ , reduced Colin 's Christian name to a monosyllable , while Colin contrived to get three separate sounds into the name Paul , which he always spoke with a rising inflexion . |
| 10 | Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level . |
| 11 | This brought him into conflict with a pagan critic , and the exchange of argument can be deduced from the defence ( Apologia ) for Christianity which Justin composed and which he later supplemented with a further appendix . |
| 12 | Beside the stone shell of the Flemyngs ' new mill , at the back of a piece of ground it now shared with a new carpet factory , long-haired cattle were browsing desultorily among mudded grass and stacks of timber . |
| 13 | It recently merged with a Wigan-based firm to form a new company called Longwall International . |