Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 2 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 3 | Gans tried not to act like a formal researcher : |
| 4 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 5 | To my left the shallow ridge that formed an edge of the valley rose up to finish at a shallow bump . |
| 6 | A few tried vainly to coalesce into a hardier entity . |
| 7 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 8 | Celie strived not to conform to a stereotyped henpecked housebound wife . |
| 9 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 10 | I had n't , but I decided I 'd better think of a few . |
| 11 | While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit . |
| 12 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 13 | He had scarcely settled to work when his stepmother came in followed by a sad-eyed little King Charles spaniel who immediately began exploring the corners of the room . |
| 14 | He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’ |
| 15 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 16 | She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing . |
| 17 | The methodological challenges sketched above are considerable , and seemed best tackled in a stage-by-stage manner . |
| 18 | Herr and Frau Nordern came home contented after a pleasant evening . |
| 19 | Preston sometimes thought that Mother Bernie and William between them had ruined whatever chance he 'd ever had of a normal sex life . |
| 20 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 21 | Salisbury , an eager nightwatchman , held out against some torrid deliveries midst some frantic appealing , and all seemed well set for a gripping fourth and fifth day . |
| 22 | In the 1930s you learnt how to behave as a human being from movies . |
| 23 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 24 | Our business location strategy became more focused through a major review , which identified key opportunities for marketing , product improvement and sectoral priorities . |
| 25 | Back in the village , she pulled up outside the paper shop , which turned out to double as a general store , and went in . |
| 26 | I also showed how to arrive at a successful transfer price where there was no market for the intermediate product . |
| 27 | The day drew on , and Tagan scouted ahead to look for a possible camping site . |
| 28 | ‘ The man who telephoned certainly spoke with a foreign accent , ’ Charlotte pointed out . |
| 29 | In the corner there was a discreet datalink terminal got up to look like a '30s radiogram . |
| 30 | In time , Keating shuffled off to spectate for a rival weekly but , as a kindly man , he offered encouragement to his successor . |