Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINGER Melanie O'Reilly drew a standing-room only attendance for the last of the inaugural season of Assembly Direct 's ‘ The Jazz Club ’ promotions . |
| 2 | At the time of the negotiations for the Treaty of Union of 1707 , the Scots Commissioners proposed a federal rather than an incorporating union . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have seen a few salmon in my time and caught a few too but this thing was not like a salmon at all . |
| 5 | PETER LONGBOTTOM , at 32 , Britain 's most experienced amateur international , outwitted a 100-strong pro-am field to win the Archer Grand Prix , second round of the Star Trophy national road race series , over a 107-mile Chilterns course . |
| 6 | In the political sphere Dewey maintained an organic rather than an atomistic conception of society . |
| 7 | Yet he added a generous Quakerly note : |
| 8 | Paul Arkwright had been brought to the house in Holborn one Sunday afternoon , a day when Robert Asshe habitually received a few carefully chosen guests , by his professor , an old friend and admirer of Asshe 's unconventional renderings of Shakespeare 's plays . |
| 9 | Thereafter the play received a few critically acclaimed performances in Birmingham but has otherwise been unperformed in this country . |
| 10 | Dexter dropped a heavy enough hint a fortnight ago by failing to back Lamb when the row erupted . |
| 11 | Half-an-hour later Akram touched him to the keeper , and as lunch loomed , another gutsy and valuable Mujtaba innings , this time of 50 , cam to an end as Smith scored a spectacular direct hit from midwicket . |
| 12 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 13 | And then we used to be playing top , we 'd a top right round the village , see how far we could go . |
| 14 | For the moment it seemed a simple enough experiment to do . ) |
| 15 | Put like that , it seemed a simple enough equation , and at least now , she thought , she could be on her guard , would not let anything get in the way of level-headed logic . |
| 16 | He had seen the boy once or twice since , and he seemed a nice enough lad — a little backward perhaps , but his mother was ashamed of him , and refused to send him to school , perhaps fearing the other children would tease him . |
| 17 | I asked , it seemed a good enough start . |
| 18 | He seemed a pleasant well spoken quiet young man . |
| 19 | Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning . |
| 20 | He had felt like beating her up , so it seemed a mild enough rebuke for the trouble she 'd caused him . |
| 21 | It seemed a full enough account . |
| 22 | Austria played a decisive though non-military role in er in in the Vienna , in in , in the er in the Crimean war . |
| 23 | A democratic society was one in which the mass of the people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected and listened to . |
| 24 | Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system . |
| 25 | It seemed an innocent enough thing to do . |
| 26 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 27 | In fact , after going three goals down , in sheer desperation Mr Singh ran on to the field , dispossessed an Alborne forward , rounded two defenders and netted in the top left corner . |
| 28 | In this country RMC poured a fifth less ready-mix , an extremely steep decline . |
| 29 | BRITISH track and field athletes claimed a first yesterday when it was announced that men and women of the same standard will compete against each other . |
| 30 | It must , however , be said that measurements of shingle movement made by Hardy ( 1964 ) showed a dominant eastwards movement of material on Blakeney Point , one of the main features of this district . |