Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases , freelance staff , hired to perform a particular task such as writing or modifying a specific computer program , will be deemed to be self-employed . |
| 2 | I 'd , I 'd I 'd got a four year old toddler and a and a eighteen month old crawler when , when I was your age . |
| 3 | And I waited till I 'd got a few bit more money to put in and sort of hid it amongst all these others , mm . |
| 4 | Well he 'd got a seven year old girl copying him had n't he ? |
| 5 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 6 | Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round . |
| 7 | My breathing was not too good — I 'd led a soft life these past months . |
| 8 | He finished tying a big bow dead on Kim 's cleavage and as she turned to go , she winked at me . |
| 9 | One of the earliest jottings I made when I began to keep a crime-writing notebook concerned just this business of plot . |
| 10 | Hanging the strap of her bag round her neck , she began to climb a sturdy sycamore adjacent to the wall . |
| 11 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 12 | Pearce ( 1988 ) , writing about the use of touch in an intensive care unit , differentiates between instrumental touch ( deliberate , physical contact needed to perform a specific task such as washing a patient or dressing a wound ) and expressive touch ( a relatively spontaneous and affective contact which is not necessarily a component of a physical task , such as holding a patient 's hand during a painful procedure ) . |
| 13 | Provisions in a contract which purported to give a non-judicial body exclusive power to decide questions affecting the rights of contracting parties would be void as contrary to public policy . |
| 14 | It started getting a little bit stressful in fact , yes ? |
| 15 | He needed somewhere to store the various artefacts he 'd collected on his travelsand decided to build a gothic tower complete with mullioned arched and trefoil windows … crenellated battlements at the top and even a gargoyle to complete the effect . |
| 16 | In fact ‘ they ’ said a lot of things when Wild Country decided to make a Flexible Friend 3 . |
| 17 | The survey schools which have , for a variety of reasons , decided to operate a formula-based approach all took a number of points into consideration when devising their own particular scheme . |
| 18 | The 23-year-old failed to score a single goal last season but Brady adds : ‘ When I was at West Ham I saw he was going places . ’ |
| 19 | By Summer 1964 the decision had been made to extend Doctor Who 's life by another season , which meant having a new series ready to start screening by the autumn of that year . |
| 20 | EL AL was among the few international airlines that managed to show a net profit last year : a respectable $11.5m on sales of $138m . |
| 21 | By the late neolithic , Knossian house plans had become quite elaborate , with square fireplaces set against a wall or in the centre of the room , and with neighbouring dwellings juxtaposed to make a cellular layout familiar in Early Minoan villages such as Fournou Korifi ( Myrtos ) and the temples that were to be built in the Middle Minoan . |
| 22 | Although the 1992 results are not public , a highly-placed source at USL tells us that they did make a small profit last year ( on revenues of $91m ) . |
| 23 | Morrison et al did describe a 52 year old woman with a weakly positive antimitochondrial antibody and Raynaud 's disease , treated with immunosuppressive agents , who died secondary to PHT . |
| 24 | It had temporarily slipped my mind , but someone did have a spare key some while ago . |
| 25 | I did have a little thought last night that maybe he is not expecting much this year but looking to get us on an even keel for an attempt next year on the title ( with maybe another central defender ) . |
| 26 | He had witnessed a bad thing last night . |
| 27 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 28 | Here the new head had recently approached the teacher-librarian in the hope that the school might become involved in the ESSE/L Project , apparently unaware that it had received a Minor award three or so years before . |
| 29 | The irony of her life is that if she had enjoyed a happy marriage these qualities may have remained dormant . |
| 30 | for the night , so , cos the woman at the hotel said er , oh she said want a double room this time not a single |