Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tobie made to sit in a chair and then desisted , because it was inlaid and foreign and breakable . |
| 2 | Erm , members who are also members of the Business Grants Panel will recall that at the December meeting we agreed to grant to a company so he may relocate into the area creating twenty seven jobs , and Friday we learnt that relocation 's to go ahead to Telford . |
| 3 | Staggered strikes failed to meet with a response and the Ministry of Education , rather than negotiate , chose to end the school year a month early . |
| 4 | In fact the node became trapped by a strike and was eventually delivered very late . |
| 5 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 6 | Chiang tried to escape by running up the mountain , and a pavilion has been built to mark the place where he tried to hide in a crevice before he was caught . |
| 7 | You stopped to talk to a friend and that was when I photographed you . ’ |
| 8 | She tried to edge in a protest but Ember talked fast to forestall her . |
| 9 | I have the greatest sympathy for hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , but there is a principle involved and it is about time that my right hon. and learned Friend stopped speaking as a lawyer and started acting as a politician . |
| 10 | The DIM system demonstrated run on a Sparc and consists of Xerox 's ScanWorX OCR software , Fujitsu 's M3096G scanner , Frame 's publishing software , Excalibur 's document imaging software and Laser Magnetics 's optical storage . |
| 11 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 12 | On the first evening the young men got drunk and tried to get into a nightclub but were refused admission . |
| 13 | He just nodded and smiled and went on chewing Chicken Thallium , slowly and methodically Henry tried to think of a remark that would go with an expansive gesture . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's time you stopped waving for a minute and listened to me . |
| 15 | He did his preregistration year and a year of vocational training in general practice but then stopped working as a doctor until he opened an allergy clinic in 1982 . |
| 16 | Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes . |
| 17 | ‘ Then he got injured in a field and had to be off for a year , but everything seems to be going well now . |
| 18 | Rodomonte came crashing to a halt as withdrawal pains shot through his arms and legs . |
| 19 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 20 | The viewers would just assume he 'd fallen into a cupboard and bang would go the impact of the scene . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've come to find you ! ’ he cried , struggling back to his feet ; but the words seemed to blur into a shout that was almost meaningless . |
| 22 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 23 | He seemed to come to a decision and stared hard at Jack Stone . |
| 24 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 25 | The rest of the room seemed to disappear in a blur as she looked into his face , seeing him as if she 'd never really seen him before . |
| 26 | Karpov came prepared with an improvement and it equalised comfortably . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't mind that I 'm an atheist ? ’ he 'd said with a frankness that at the time she 'd admired . |
| 28 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 29 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 30 | Then , after I 'd walked about a bit and done my errands I suddenly felt much better . |