Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Purcell crackled over the PA Kenneth Baker emerged looking remarkably composed for a man in the middle of a punishing whistle-stop tour of the North-East . |
| 2 | The aircraft had gone , the space it had occupied now filled with a small single-engined plane . |
| 3 | He had the notion that she was mocking him , and the anger he had felt earlier returned in a different form , a determination to excel , to beat other men who had been with her . |
| 4 | His understanding of Christ and Christianity had become badly distorted through a kind of super-spirituality . |
| 5 | He had played flanker for his club , Glasgow High-Kelvinside , and no.8 for Glasgow Under-21s , but had become thoroughly established as a lock , the position he played in at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow , where he benefited from the guidance of the school coach , Peter Billington , for Scottish Schools against Ireland and England in 1985 , for his senior clubs side and for Glasgow at senior district level . |
| 6 | Many communities had become sharply divided as a result of the way the penal laws had been enforced at the local level , and understandably Nonconformists retained a deep distrust of their Anglican neighbours who until recently had been the agents of their destruction . |
| 7 | What that ground had yielded now reposed in a series of grey plastic drums along the wall of his laboratory . |