Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 2 | He cobbled together a brunch of cold remains from the fridge , with lemon tea . |
| 3 | As the sun rose higher in the cloudless sky and the sea below took on an almost Mediterranean hue , Bert and Bella Rafferty and Celia and Brian Markham cracked open a bottle of champagne . |
| 4 | They cracked open a bottle of wine , and by the end of the night she was feeling very pleasantly mellow and totally convinced that the world was a supremely beautiful place . |
| 5 | These lines of advertising were , however , swamped by emphasis on the melodrama , and the Muni posters told prospective customers that ‘ You 'll see Muni let Loose a Blast of Dynamite ’ , ‘ Her Kisses Made Him — Damned Him — Redeemed Him ’ and ‘ They Dug Up Hell Ton by Ton — to Make It ’ . |
| 6 | If she were to hum quietly a popular song of the day , or laugh gaily at something which tickled her sense of humour , then he let loose a stream of abuse and insults , shouting hysterically . |
| 7 | Leaning out of the window , he let loose a stream of abuse . |
| 8 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 9 | The tenant may wish to limit its liability to the state and condition of the premises at the commencement of the term , in which case it would need to include a provision that it will keep the Premises in no worse condition than they are in at the commencement of the Term as evidenced by the Schedule of condition annexed hereto A schedule of condition would then of course have to be settled including , if possible , a portfolio of photographs . |
| 10 | Hodge and Parker commanded the midfield , Crosby and Rice , strongly supported by Laws and Pearce , drove forward on the flanks and it seemed only a matter of time before the right sort of cross reached Chapman or Clough . |
| 11 | The Phoenix King himself was trapped within the city , and it seemed only a matter of time before the entire land was devoured . |
| 12 | The electronic popular music of rock is so different in form and function from the old print-based pop of ‘ moon and June ’ , and so akin to the old pre-literate oral forms of folk music , that most of the assumptions made today about the relations between the two are misguided , based on theories devised at a time when the complete destruction of folk culture by the industrial state seemed only a matter of time . |
| 13 | It seemed only a matter of time , therefore , before the spending cuts and restrictions already imposed on the ILEA were followed by more drastic action . |
| 14 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |
| 15 | In Chapter Three I argued that a postmodernist culture that foregrounded ‘ desire ’ signalled somehow a renunciation of signification . |
| 16 | And that caused quite a bit of resentment , I can tell you — the Americans and the Japanese competing for our future . |
| 17 | And I think it it caused quite a lot of hassle and difficulty for people with young children . |
| 18 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
| 19 | So he 'd quite a lot of work to do when he was quite young . |
| 20 | Each of us consumed quite a bit of time on the complications . |
| 21 | Even in Britain it seemed almost a law of politics under George II and George III that the Prince of Wales should act as a rallying-point for all those who hoped to benefit from a change of ruler . |
| 22 | During our journey we noticed quite a lot of work being done on several station platforms . |
| 23 | On Oct. 18 , the Supreme Soviet adopted unanimously a law on state independence , confirming the independence declaration of Aug. 30 [ see p. 38373 ] . |
| 24 | There was a card club which met once a week in winter , where Green played with a group of about a dozen , including his doctor , Richard Scambler , and James Fleming of Grasmere and the Partridges , Robert and Edward . |
| 25 | They showed quite a lot of leg , and were undeniably sexy . |
| 26 | EUROPEAN stock markets showed barely a flicker of interest in the election result . |
| 27 | That way they raised rather a lot of money . |
| 28 | Flavia Sherman brushed away a strand of hair that had fallen across his eyes and smiled fondly at him . |
| 29 | She brushed aside a wisp of hair which had slipped down over her face and smiled placatingly at the florid-faced docker leaning forward over the tea-stained counter . |
| 30 | The appeals raised originally a point of interpretation of the statutory provisions governing the valuation of benefits for the purpose of income tax under Schedule E , in particular , the interpretation and application to the facts found of section 63(1) and ( 2 ) of the Finance Act 1976 . |