Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [to-vb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I went in to face an English Corporal of ten years ' service , who had a bad reputation . |
| 2 | She broke off to acknowledge an old man trudging by : ‘ Good day to you , Mr Ivey ! |
| 3 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 4 | We looked up to see an old man in a flapping gallibaya pointing to the eastern shore . |
| 5 | It turned out to contain an unseen , jutting corner of the building , and as my shins crashed into it I barely managed to stifle my cry of pain . |
| 6 | ‘ In the House of Lords he went on to make an outstanding contribution on Labour 's front-bench . |
| 7 | Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) . |
| 8 | Believing , at that time , that the source of psychologism was the idea that no objective treatment of the logic of ampliative inference was possible — together with the desire for a logic which treats all forms of inference in a systematic fashion — he set out to provide an appropriate definition of truth , and of validity , and thus to offer a systematic objective foundation for logic . |