Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 2 | ‘ But we limited them to just a couple of chances . |
| 3 | Cromwell , remarkably , dismissed him with merely a caution , though the appointment at St Botolph 's Bishopsgate was formally revoked a few months later . |
| 4 | No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began . |
| 5 | Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty , changing into second gear as she rounded a bend . |
| 6 | We delayed it for only a moment or two , remembering the fluffy chick waiting below for its supper of regurgitated fish . |
| 7 | For the first race the trainer friend advised us to back a horse called , I think , Super Duper . |
| 8 | ROBIN Reid guaranteed himself at least a bronze medal when he reached the semi-finals in boxing 's light-middleweight division . |
| 9 | She owed him at least a chance to explain , and decided to drop into his offices on her way to the shop . |
| 10 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 11 | First , major constitutional and political pronouncement though it was , certain to be studied and analysed for years to come , he delivered it with hardly a note . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'd never taken a woman on any of his expeditions before , so I nagged him for about a week and used all my female charm . |
| 13 | they sold it for quite a bit of money and |
| 14 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
| 15 | ‘ Sacked me without even a bonus , ’ she complained . |
| 16 | He was acquitted on the ground that ‘ he had her for almost a year with her goodwill . ’ |
| 17 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 18 | I mean when I moved I had stuff in here before the upstairs was used , I had it for about a year or so , before I opened it up . |
| 19 | Stok drained it without even a pause to say thanks . |
| 20 | He took it , but held it for only a moment . |