Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 2 | And she got about half a dozen of the strongest boys from standard one to stand guard at the door . |
| 3 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 4 | They just sit there mesmerized for half an hour and then |
| 5 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 6 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ Charles interrupted after half an hour , leaning forward and lowering his voice . |
| 7 | But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton . |
| 8 | We stopped for half an hour in Reading to wait for a connection . ’ |
| 9 | The then Prime Minister also emphasized the political awakening to the environment in statements such as : ‘ it is possible that with all these enormous changes ( population , agricultural , use of fossil fuels ) concentrated into such a short period of time , we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of this planet itself ’ ( Thatcher 1988 ) . |
| 10 | He was the supreme arbiter of protocol and courtly behaviour , and it was likely that he would be put out , to say the least , by the notion of a Kha-Khan who behaved with such a lack of reserve . |
| 11 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 12 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 13 | To contemporary commentators like Fyvel , the only other section of the population who behaved in such a way were the homosexuals ; what he did n't know was that this pursuit of pleasure , and concentration on self , were exactly those traits that would become desirable , and eventually , socially acceptable , with the extraordinary success of Elvis Presley and the Teen age that followed . |
| 14 | Here they behaved in such a way as to convince the ASS officers that their lives and those of others were under threat , hence the decision to fire . |
| 15 | After such duplicity the shadow Scottish Secretary , Tom Clarke , was ‘ wholly right to tell the SNP we could not work with them while they behaved in such a cynical way . ’ |
| 16 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 17 | The temperature change would bring a marked reduction in the biodiversity of Tibetan Alpine ecosystems , and hundreds of thousands of hectares of the east China plains would be flooded if sea levels rose by half a metre , a change which would place the country 's major coastal cities at risk . |
| 18 | The call from Scotland Yard came through half an hour after Wexford got back to the station . |
| 19 | Have you have you got any er idea of how i it came about that a group was so organized ? |
| 20 | Sultry singer N' Dea added : ‘ We played for half an hour , jumped in our van and got out fast . ’ |
| 21 | That 's why Keegan 's swoop came as such a shock . |
| 22 | All this came as such a shock . |
| 23 | They equalised after half an hour and also went close on more than one occasion . |
| 24 | I have long dream 'd of such a kind of man , |
| 25 | President Gorbachev and other Politburo members have angrily , and at times desperately , appealed against such a move , for fear it would lead to a breakup of the Soviet Communist Party and , ultimately , of the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Few countries in the world — certainly not economic sloths like Japan or West Germany — came near such a rate of progress . |
| 27 | Hell , this seemed like such a good idea this morning . |
| 28 | The second problem that graphics can bring is when you have been active with that 256 greyscale scanner which seemed like such a good idea . |
| 29 | And that part of her life seemed like such a long time ago . |
| 30 | Well it 's it , it 's very much like , you know , a lot of things I 've come across in everyday language where , where people , I do n't know , er friends and relatives have found out that somebody 's been gay , oh well I never thought it of him , he seemed like such a nice person as well |