Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 4 | If you think it was hard for me , think what it was like for Gary , the sound technician , who had to sit out front in a box , wired up and WATCH the whole thing seven times a week and twice on Saturdays . |
| 5 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 6 | Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 . |
| 7 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 8 | A few tourists were aboard ; a couple with walking gear and their spaniel dog with one blind eye staring out of the low window , and a Canadian , rather loud , who had struck up conversation with a young Lewis woman who was coming back from visiting her husband working in Libya . |
| 9 | On June 28 after the shooting incident US President Bush , describing Saddam Hussein as a " brutal bully " , refused to rule out speculation concerning a possible US-led military attack against Iraq to enforce compliance . |
| 10 | He genuinely wanted to bring about change in a country where tens of thousands of its people had been tortured or murdered under his father 's regime . |