Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people . |
| 2 | LC were enriched from BALB/c TE-EC ( ref. 22 ) , stained with M5/114.15.12 ( anti-I-A d and anti-I-E d , ATCC ) and FITC-goat ( Fab' ) 2 anti-rat IgG ( TAGO ) and additionally purified using a BDIS Facstar Plus flow cytometer . |
| 3 | There was little mirth among the film crew , least of all from Raymond Cusick whose job it suddenly became to pull a last minute rabbit out of the hat . |
| 4 | She encouraged the rich to take holidays within Iran , so tried to foster a sense of Iranian culture and a national pride among a people notoriously liable to succumb to self-pity and paranoia . |
| 5 | The trio , who were linked on security force computers to 32 murders , were killed as they apparently tried to murder a retired UDR man on a remote Co Tyrone road . |
| 6 | The sun suddenly seemed to lose a little of its warmth . |
| 7 | Their ancestors had scorned and derided Vincent and now they were rich from Van Gogh postcards and souvenirs bought by people like Skye , who only came to catch a whisper of his ghost . |
| 8 | His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead . |
| 9 | They obviously enjoyed playing a game with each other . |
| 10 | I only began to smell a rat when he could n't come up with the documents he claimed to have . |
| 11 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 12 | They must have felt the need for a farmer 's almanac and so started to keep a tally of days , which they recorded with special symbols . |
| 13 | The rain had subsided by the time she was ready to set out , so she only needed to knot a sweater round her shoulders . |
| 14 | And he said , I suddenly felt so ill , you know , and I was shaking , and , and , and , and , and obviously started running a temperature and , and my , my , er and , and shivering and whatever . |
| 15 | She only managed to hail a taxi after fifteen minutes of running , and when she did she was almost afraid that he would not drive her because of her soaked condition , but , after a stream of highly ominous muttering in French , he finally let her in . |
| 16 | You only saw heard a bit of it . |
| 17 | Are not managers constantly exhorted to adopt a fresh approach to their jobs and to ‘ streamline ’ their businesses ? |
| 18 | Obviously did do a thing . |
| 19 | She much preferred to take a cab in to the centre of town when she was on these assignments . |
| 20 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 21 | It rejected the idea that the associated companies which together did have a countrywide business were in any way relevant . |
| 22 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 23 | There were many well-meaning groups , who were not totally at odds with Catholic teaching , but merely wished to follow a different fashion of Christian life and observance . |
| 24 | Even before Hello , Dolly ! went into production , Richard Zanuck had agreed with Gene Kelly and producer Frank McCarthy , who together had made A Guide for the Married Man , to team them up again for a screen version of the fantasy Tom Swift and His Wizard Airship . |
| 25 | Our first Members ' Evening was held at the Community College on Friday 1st March 1991 and its success can be judged by the fact that it went on until the Social Secretary literally had to call a halt at 11.15 p.m. ! |
| 26 | Jay at three in the morning — hello , young lovers , wherever you are ! — drunk , suddenly had to see a picture of Lucy . |
| 27 | Saffroned mussels with pasta came to me when moules marinières , intended as a first course , suddenly had to feed a houseful . |
| 28 | But the time came when Graham Thomas , who was then the Trust 's Gardens Adviser , suddenly had to produce a report and I began to see that it was n't quite like the old days . |
| 29 | BRAC 's trial of the rice-salt solution ( described in Chapter 7 ) naturally had to include a ‘ control ’ union , in which the standard teaching of the lobon-gur solution took place . |
| 30 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |