Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I opened the case I heard a groaning , splintering noise , which caused me to experience extreme pain as the bridge flew off and whacked me on the side of the head ! |
| 2 | In this case I chose a mount measuring approximately 17. 5cm ( 7in ) square , with a 7. 5-cm ( 3-in ) diameter aperture . |
| 3 | That was in case I had a ‘ hypo ’ , ’ she recalls . |
| 4 | So much so that she decided to call the police and give them my registration number , just in case I made a habit of kerb-crawling . |
| 5 | I walked this afternoon from my room to the School and in the lane I met a cat carrying a hedge sparrow . |
| 6 | For an instant I saw a different woman : not the sour , bored old creature I had grown to expect , but someone strong and humorous . |
| 7 | At that instant I learnt a lesson I have never forgotten : never , ever use a camera that you have not tested , ’ |
| 8 | At that instant I felt a pang in my heart ! |
| 9 | This continuity has practical as well as expressive value , because it facilitates the organic style of change I mentioned a moment ago as a practical advantage . |
| 10 | In addition I organized a body of prominent citizens into what we called ‘ China-Canada Incorporated ’ , and I was able to get my friend Dr Norman ‘ Larry ’ MacKenzie , President of the University of British Columbia , to serve as its Chairman . |
| 11 | With great difficulty I obtained a copy of this document and while it stated that ‘ public servants should not reveal the opinions and attitudes of colleagues as to the government business with which they have been concerned ’ , another section said quite clearly that a reasonable timescale for a public servant 's silence would be ‘ fifteen years or for the service life of the adviser , whichever is the longer ’ . |
| 12 | Without difficulty I found a Bed and Breakfast house , equally smart and highly polished , and settled down for a pre-exploratory nap . |
| 13 | At club level I did a lot of long and triple jumping , making 14.25 metres at the latter . |
| 14 | inside it and then for you and mum I bought a little something , it was one pound forty . |
| 15 | Over and over I told my mum I wanted a bike . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's about your Mum I wanted a word with you . |
| 17 | After skulking around for half an hour I spotted a kestrel in a tree nearby . |
| 18 | Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just a knack and a not entirely reliable one , ’ the Doctor replied , ‘ but of course I had a very good teacher . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Of course I had a mother . |
| 21 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 22 | Of course I heard a car . |
| 23 | Of course I fired a couple of the likely suspects immediately , but I 'm still not certain that we nailed the villain . ’ |
| 24 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 25 | done a financial and er my er , this afternoon I had a guy come in with a Capri , bloody welding that thing needs doing , I do n't think he 'll get it done , so I was , I was |
| 26 | THE other afternoon I received a telephone call from one of your representatives enquiring whether I read the Echo regularly . |
| 27 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 28 | I discovered Negley Farson 's Going Fishing , and one magic afternoon I unearthed a copy of Izaak Walton 's Compleat Angler , which he wrote in 1676 . |
| 29 | Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van . |
| 30 | Later in the afternoon I saw a meal for all 600 prisoners being cooked in one gigantic iron pot over a blazing fire . |