Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Kelly 's one is like , I only got a glimpse of it , but I 'm sure it 's like Donna 's one . |
2 | Now I was impressed : I not seen a ski hill like this before . |
3 | I told myself that not only had I not had a choice , but that in fact I had n't really needed to make one . |
4 | It 's not at all what I thought it would be I just made a bloomer there . |
5 | If that 's the Sue I once bought a drink for — out of pity — in a certain low-rent wine bar she frequents ( Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women hogging the tables ) , then I do n't think she 's telling the full story . |
6 | Nor , I must confess , have I ever seen a fox . |
7 | ‘ Have I ever mentioned a man called Hugh Puddephat to you ? ’ |
8 | You were — are — everything I ever dreamed a woman could be . ’ |
9 | I 'd , it 's funny because I always wanted a girl |
10 | But in the end someone usually found a barrel , and scrubbed it , and poured in the raisins and the sugar and the water . |
11 | ‘ I 'm sorry I nearly made a mess of things . ’ |
12 | aye , cos I even done a toilet with them , |
13 | While I was with him I even developed a liking for steak tartar . |
14 | Yeah you 're sort of thinking when my why got a card and then they tell you to look round , how much it 's gon na cost you and I mean , you know , jus jus just you know is everything gon na work out , you know ? |
15 | Last season , I had one which I never got a chance to use : - ( . |
16 | Each day I followed their tracks and several times got close before they snorted and crashed off ; but the reeds were so dense I never got a glimpse . |
17 | Most people on the ‘ Carry Ons ’ seemed to think that it was quite nice having Ken around , which assuredly had a lot to do with his love of the series . |
18 | In the reign of Alexis I the Ukrainian stimulus took full effect , and the Tsar himself eagerly supported a flurry of reforms aimed at intellectual and moral renovation . |
19 | there 's nobody really got a nickname in here . |
20 | Ceauşescu 's arrogance in presuming not only to treat the Soviet General-Secretary as a person on a par with himself , but also one without the necessary experience to speak with the full authority of a veteran revolutionary like himself undoubtedly aroused a mixture of irritation and amused contempt in Gorbachev . |
21 | It seems to us natural that love should be the commonest theme of serious imaginative literature : but a glance at classical antiquity or at the Dark Ages at once shows us that what we took for " nature " is really a special state of affairs , which will probably have an end , and which certainly had a beginning … |
22 | Mr. Bolter , who was himself recently appointed a school governor , was accompanied by head teacher Monica Galt of Kings Road primary school , Old Trafford . |
23 | Negotiators from the two countries agreed in Geneva , at the end of the 15th round of bilateral talks which closed on April 26 , to cut their chemical weapons stocks to 5,000 tonnes each , and in June a summit accord between them formally endorsed a ban on the production of chemical weapons [ see p. 37518 ] . |
24 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
25 | No , because she had , she only needed a teenager left , she done the fifty to sixty age group |
26 | Have you had a wall clock or have you just had a clock ? |
27 | Have you just had a lecture ? |
28 | She hoped it would n't be longer ; she hoped it would be less , for as dear as Aunt Nessy was , she always brought a feeling of change and unrest into this quiet and well-ordered household . |
29 | Have you still got a hair in from your |
30 | In no other household had she ever seen a slop basin , and she hated to see an eccentricity erected into a symbol of the traditionally correct . |