Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian and I worked together about a year ago when I did a locum in the practice where he was an assistant . ’ |
| 2 | As a result , it was almost 20 years before I managed as slow a time as 13.3 again . |
| 3 | She became once more a woman of first instincts . |
| 4 | She was immobile , cruelly transfixed , but in the very moment of immobility she saw most clearly a time when such moments need not be . |
| 5 | She went home once a month to combat any such suggestion , and told her family that there were very amusing people living on the Thames . |
| 6 | She felt very much a spectator . |
| 7 | Soon she was fluent in conversation and public speaking though as a young lieutenant she felt very much a beginner . |
| 8 | And extraordinary tasks , like cleaning every dish in the kitchen and pantry , she did only twice a year . |
| 9 | And if she leaned sideways just a fraction her shoulder would touch his . |
| 10 | We managed perfectly alright a couple of years ago when the buses did n't come up here , we could manage now . ’ |
| 11 | I loved the fact that I could have a four , five , six piece group that was capable of making this huge wall of sound in addition to what we did as just a jazz quartet . ’ |
| 12 | In medieval Christianity they became more specifically a symbol of purity , not just because of their gentle lustre , but still more because they were grown secretly and , it was believed , with personal suffering by the oyster . ) |
| 13 | They came together once a year to slip back into what McQuaid said were the days of their glory . |
| 14 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 15 | They slept under just a blanket in the mouth of a cave while we needed hot water bottles in our sleeping bags . |
| 16 | Further experiments showed that sloth metabolism was so slow that they defecated only once a week . |
| 17 | The nineteenth century was to see its status as the language of diplomacy grow still further as it became even more a symbol of some underlying European unity which , however vague , was genuinely felt to exist by most of those who decided the continent 's destinies . |
| 18 | It became very much a matter of the old touring buddies looking after each other . |
| 19 | The third major pileup on this motorway section since it opened just over a year ago . |
| 20 | It 's the second multpile collision on the M-forty since it opened almost exactly a year ago . |
| 21 | Ronnie Moran , who resumes the role of caretaker manager he relinquished just over a year ago when Mr Souness arrived from Glasgow Rangers to fill the vacancy created by Kenny Dalglish 's shock resignation , said : ‘ We must try to give Graeme something special to come back to in the form of the FA Cup itself . |
| 22 | And then of course people had picnics on the Sundays of the summer and er so on it grew more quite a lot from the hiring . |
| 23 | But Dan he he cried like once a day or something like that . |
| 24 | ‘ He shot too early a couple of times , that was his problem , but then I think I shot too early sometimes , too . |
| 25 | His own practice , as recorded in one of a series of articles which appeared in the Manchester Guardian in October and November 1930 * by one of the pupils who attended the evening classes he held there once a week between 1925 and 1927 , was from a drawing to make a careful sketch in various hades of one colour , obtaining in this way the construction of the picture and the suggestion for various tonal values . |
| 26 | After his first book , A London Farrago , appeared in 1921 , he published almost annually a volume of satire or humour , but he had a parallel career as a biographer , writing vigorous and scholarly lives of writers like Villon ( 1928 ) , Ronsard ( 1944 ) , Rabelais ( 1957 ) , Molière ( 1959 ) , and Cervantes ( 1962 ) ; studies of Louis XI ( King Spider , 1930 ) , and Charles V ( Emperor of the West , 1932 ) . |