Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Quebec government , however , warned the federal government and the English-speaking provinces that if they failed to come up with an acceptable constitutional solution , Quebec would proceed with its own independence referendum by October 1992 . |
| 2 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 3 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 4 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 5 | I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt , but she called me back . |
| 6 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 7 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 8 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 9 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 10 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 11 | The journalists claim in ‘ Ambush : The War Between The SAS and the IRA ’ that the SAS man drove a lorry identical to the ex-UDR man 's and pretended to break down on a lonely Tyrone road . |
| 12 | Say you got me to Ireland and dropped me off , then got shot down by a British night-fighter off the French coast on your way back . |
| 13 | Janine took a deep breath and all the fears and worries inside her came tumbling out like a great canker that had finally burst . |
| 14 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 15 | He had borrowed the ledger one night and read how a member of the Longford militia came galloping up on a foam-flecked horse to the doors of Carewscourt , yelling that the French and Irish had scattered Lake 's army to the four winds and that they were coming south and for everyone to flee , flee , flee if they valued their lives … . |
| 16 | The jockey 's race never stops … never stalls … so far this season Richard Dunwoody has had three hundred and sixty nine rides … he should be celebrating his century of winners any day … only one man can catch him and stop him and that 's Peter Scudamore … at Wincanton this week the reigning champion came galloping back with a winning treble … |
| 17 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 18 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 19 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 20 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 21 | Pillars ran around the circular enclosure , and the myriad corridors all seemed to disappear off to an elaborate pattern . |
| 22 | He 'd met up with a marvellous girl in Munster , anyway ; then a fully consenting Hausfrau from Hamburg … and so it had gone on . |
| 23 | She 'd grown up into a beautiful fair girl , and every lad in the county had his eye on her , as Billy knew from all the women 's gossip . |
| 24 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 25 | The Woman 's voice came swimming out of a great blankness , forcing itself on him . |
| 26 | To many of us inside the game of golf , Froggy seemed to stick out like a sore thumb in this world of smooth agents , six-figure endorsement contracts and marketing strategies . |
| 27 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 28 | Certainly Leicestershire 's team manager Jack Birkenshaw has no doubt about the credentials of the 27-year-old quickie , whose career took off when umpire Allan Jones , a former fast bowler himself , advised coming in off a straight rather than a curved run . |
| 29 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 30 | Mind , it was the surprise of me life to 'ear you 'd teamed up with a fly female pickpocket , I did n't know you was one of the lads . ’ |