Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you asked for a special audit they would probably welcome it , as an indication that the bank was going to great lengths not to put them out of business . " |
| 2 | Then , out of the blue , Simon and Moscato announced after a considered assessment they had decided to opt out of the French national squad 's World Cup preparations . |
| 3 | His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over . |
| 4 | If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time . |
| 5 | In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm . |
| 6 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 7 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 8 | Whenever the circus came to a new town he used to dress up in his costume and go out into the streets with a clown on stilts and do a turn . |
| 9 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 10 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 11 | Langton realized her impatience and ushered them out of the office towards another door , which he opened with a heavy key he took from his pocket . |
| 12 | ‘ Even if we celebrated in a small way we would have attracted tourists from all over the world . |
| 13 | For those too young to remember the 1960s , Niki de Saint Phalle 's name conjures up wacky and colourful Nanas ( French slang for woman ) , whose harmlessness is matched only by their price tag and Partisian chic , neatly caricatured by a tacky perfume she put her name to in 1982 . |
| 14 | When he walked into a crowded bar he always found he had at least half the bar to himself . |
| 15 | ‘ If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’ |
| 16 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
| 17 | When the steward returned with a steaming pot she had another cup . |
| 18 | As our second day dawned with a cloudless sky I could n't wait to get back out and explore more of the Dorset countryside — this time with a horse to take the strain . |
| 19 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 20 | As a permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment I was an accounting officer , which meant as a civil servant I was responsible directly to parliament , which also meant I regularly had to go before the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 21 | Rescuers , working in stifling temperatures in a space no bigger than three feet wide and two feet high , reached through a small hole they had dug to the men at 9.30pm and passed through drinks and sandwiches . |
| 22 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
| 23 | She thought of a tired analogy she had often heard , people in a crowded train compared to sardines in a tin . |
| 24 | So we got engaged and waved my family off to Australia ; he knew of a little cottage we could buy not far from his boat yard — his boat yard , ’ she said disparagingly with a little snort of disgust . |
| 25 | If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes . |
| 26 | The diary records that even when the family went to a nearby shelter he would stay in bed . |
| 27 | Erm the advantage that schools has er have sorry , over the other products , is that if you went to a medical practice you may have four or five doctors to help you out . |
| 28 | So for example , if I went on er a job on Monday I could possibly draw gun number three but the following day if we went on a similar operation I might get gun number six . |
| 29 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 30 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |