Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It always pays to stick as closely to the truth as possible , I found that out a long time ago . |
| 2 | Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it . |
| 3 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 4 | HSBC chairman Sir William Purves said : ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . |
| 5 | ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year , and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . ’ |
| 6 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 7 | When Liman , the Senate Counsel at the hearings , suggested that it had been ‘ on-the-job training ’ , North thought that rather a good description . |
| 8 | the relative index , which became necessary once a reasonable number of subjects had been enumerated . |