Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed when our hosts tried to press still more on a woman 's plate and she blurted , ‘ I ca n't — I 'd be sick , ’ they looked quite delighted . |
| 2 | Several weeks ago Victor came crashing down out of a tree and on to his back . |
| 3 | Hello tape recorder , you seemed to go off there for a while , I 'm just checking that you 're still working again , thanks very much . |
| 4 | I 'd seen long ago in a wild-life programme about |
| 5 | She 'd stayed here once as a child with cousins but could really recall very little . |
| 6 | In the third hour of darkness the climactic storm seemed to materialise overhead out of a sky barely dappled with clouds . |
| 7 | Gradually , I learnt to live more comfortably with a ‘ foot in both worlds ’ , and to revel in my new way-of-being . |
| 8 | After my divorce , we seemed to get along better for a while . |
| 9 | MARTIN OFFIAH prepared to return home today with a serious shoulder injury and said he was unlikely to play club rugby in Australia again . |
| 10 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 11 | Solbourne 's nine-month-old OI Software Business Unit , which it fully expected to spin off someday as a separate company , has been bought by Sunnyvale , California-based Xerox Corp spin-out ParcPlace Systems Inc , the Small Talk company , on undisclosed terms . |
| 12 | rather be up there with them they sanctioned to go up there on a Friday night and they said that , that lot of them do er you know , what you call it , there you go up and everyone 's in the mood to sell you something , they let you , you know |
| 13 | I started talking rather incoherently about a shipwreck ! |
| 14 | Outside , the bad dog recommenced barking rather savagely as a car drew up in the yard . |
| 15 | Restored by a large steak , he explained to her as they ate that he liked to work very quickly on a murder case , pushing everyone to get an answer . |
| 16 | Firms that have directors on their boards , who have headed failed organisations , will also not be eligible for membership because of the instances when companies have gone bust and then resumed trading almost immediately under a different name . |
| 17 | There was a firework display going on outside but it did sound very much like a gun , and Yoko absolutely froze . |
| 18 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 19 | ‘ I did go back recently on a concert tour . |
| 20 | Erm ironically I was one of those that went from Essex to Manchester and I did live up there for a couple of years but er decided to come back . |
| 21 | ‘ Eccentric Abstraction ’ , ‘ Anti Form ’ , ‘ process Art ’ , ‘ Anti-illusionism ’ … did come about partly as a reaction against the industrialised geometry and sheer bulk of much minimal art . ’ |
| 22 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 23 | The noise from the shore was much greater : a familiar hiss and booming he had heard often before with a big tide on the make , but muffled now because of the deafening sound of the wind . |
| 24 | ‘ And last night , ’ Rainbow continues , ‘ at the disco , she told me she had to go off somewhere in a hurry , and disappeared . ’ |
| 25 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 26 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 27 | Ken had come home late from a gig he had not enjoyed . |
| 28 | In October 1990 the WEU had come out strongly against a proposal by the EC Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers that the EC 's Treaty of Rome should be amended to incorporate Article 5 of the Brussels Treaty establishing the WEU , so that the EC should effectively control the WEU . |
| 29 | Only two days after meeting Julie by the Serpentine in Hyde Park matters had come very quickly to a head . |
| 30 | Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ? |