Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't expected his kiss at all , and when his warm lips closed over her tight , trembling mouth she gasped , stiffened , felt her defences crashing , and found a tremulous yet passionate response all in a matter of seconds . |
| 2 | Austria played a decisive though non-military role in er in in the Vienna , in in , in the er in the Crimean war . |
| 3 | She shared a 6.55 am scheduled flight from nearby Aberdeen to Humberside with thirty businessmen and oil-rig workers . |
| 4 | Viktor Chebrikov , at this time KGB chairman , made a still more pointed speech in September 1987 in which he declared that Western intelligence services were attempting to subvert Soviet youth and to sow the seeds of nationalist discontent , hoping in this way to undermine socialism morally and politically and to inculcate political pluralism ( Gorbachev , by contrast , had spoken strongly in favour of ‘ socialist pluralism ’ at a meeting with French public figures the same month ) . |
| 5 | Wilson , who made a quiet yet effective impact in the 2–0 midweek World Cup defeat of Latvia has been around in the game with spells at Derby County , Ipswich , Chelsea and his present club where he is happy but would consider a move to a higher grade of football if possible . |
| 6 | The circumstances of the breach ( which followed a previous less significant breach ) were drawn to the plaintiffs ' attention by the defendants ' solicitors by letter dated 30 April 1991 as follows : |
| 7 | The jury returned a unanimous not proven verdict on a charge alleging he supplied five men including depot employees with the drug on Hogmanay 1991 . |
| 8 | A gentle breeze was investigating the cavities and strings of each device , which produced an eerie yet subtle cacophony ; an accidental music . |
| 9 | The text included a controversial recently added provision under which President Manuel Pinto da Costa would remain in office until the end of 1990 , rather than Sept. 30 when his current term of office expired . |
| 10 | He looked a pleasant enough young man , and genuinely concerned . |
| 11 | Doleys and Arnold ( 1975 ) treated an 8-year-old mentally handicapped boy by encouraging him to copy another child and by reinforcing attempts to sit on the lavatory for longer periods . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 13 | The trouble here is that none of these composers had a strong enough creative personality to absorb his antecedents to his own advantage . |
| 14 | As she gazed benignly at Alison eating ginger cake , she had a sudden very clear vision of the dead babies floating in the bath . |
| 15 | Of the 363 homosexual men who tested HIV-1 positive , 80 ( 22% ) had an acute sexually transmitted disease diagnosed at the time blood was collected for investigation of syphilis . |
| 16 | The death suggested a possible previously unrecognised side-effect of ecstasy . |