Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 2 | Rush , later to be carried off with what Mr Bonds termed a ‘ bad groin injury ’ , also had a shot turned aside by Flowers , who later flung himself to keep out a stinging shot by Allen . |
| 3 | Dutta said Guppy also asked him to set up an account in Geneva which he used to channel nearly £500,000 following the fake robbery and insurance payout . |
| 4 | The European Council reaffirmed its willingness to help the Soviet Union but referred back to the Commission the task of submitting before the next Council meeting proposals for decisions to be taken , and also asked it to draw up a plan for a major commercial , scientific and technical co-operation agreement with the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Arithmetic not only took my mind off the leg , but also spurred me to keep up a pace of four miles an hour . |
| 6 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 7 | The taxi dropped off one of the passengers , and the offenders instructed the driver to take them to a farm club , and then asked him to turn down a farm track . |
| 8 | Why then did they seal off an area of Tottenham more than one mile across ? |