Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always been quite dependent on Keith , which was why he got away with such a lot , but eventually she has grown more confident , and believes that she can now make it on her own . |
| 2 | ‘ I came away in such a hurry — I 've forgotten . ’ |
| 3 | Some people were surprised , and I remember we played up to this a bit . |
| 4 | He went downstairs to the rumpus room and rummaged behind the tiny bar , and , after digging through a seemingly endless collection of empty pop bottles , came up with half a bottle of rye and some ginger ale . |
| 5 | Aideen Rodgers , the baby of the Irish team , provided the first point while Irish champion Eavan Higgins came up with half a point , finishing all square with Scottish No 1 Catriona Lambert in the top match and Eileen-Rose Power finished birdie , birdie par to win her match by one hole . |
| 6 | At last she sighed happily at such a class . |
| 7 | The fate laid up for such a man is revealed by the story of Alderman Reed of London , who , ‘ upon a disobedient stomach ’ , refused to pay and gave a bad example to his fellow citizens . |
| 8 | And second , it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets . |
| 9 | ‘ So he went off in such a hurry or so worried that he forgot to cancel . |
| 10 | The Jones collaboration in part grew out of such a quest , though there were aspects of their work that had been anticipated in India long before , unrecorded and so unknown to them . |
| 11 | With the most artfully devised deliberation she managed not to avoid it , tripped spectacularly in such a fashion that she fell forward , the contents of the tea-tray , cups , saucers , dregs of tea , milk , sugar and cream cakes , all cascading neatly into Mrs Darrell 's lap , with McAllister herself , purple in the face as a consequence of stifling a dreadful desire to laugh , landing gracefully on her knees at the good lady 's feet . |
| 12 | The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I 'd better keep you up to date — you left here in such a rush , you did n't say whether you had any thoughts on the villa business … ’ |
| 14 | It is an unfortunate legacy of 200 years of pedagogical grammatical preoccupation backed up by half a century of theoretical linguistic preoccupation . |
| 15 | Hand-outs usually give information and therefore the information must be accurate and set out in such a way that it can be easily read and understood . |