Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb pp] a [noun] " 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 | It 's not at all what I thought it would be I just made a bloomer there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nor , I must confess , have I ever seen a fox . |
| 5 | What about me , then , have I ever had a 2lb roach ? |
| 6 | ‘ Have I ever mentioned a man called Hugh Puddephat to you ? ’ |
| 7 | You were — are — everything I ever dreamed a woman could be . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd , it 's funny because I always wanted a girl |
| 9 | But in the end someone usually found a barrel , and scrubbed it , and poured in the raisins and the sugar and the water . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry I nearly made a mess of things . ’ |
| 11 | aye , cos I even done a toilet with them , |
| 12 | While I was with him I even developed a liking for steak tartar . |
| 13 | Last season , I had one which I never got a chance to use : - ( . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | there 's nobody really got a nickname in here . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | Mr. Bolter , who was himself recently appointed a school governor , was accompanied by head teacher Monica Galt of Kings Road primary school , Old Trafford . |
| 21 | 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 ] . |
| 22 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
| 23 | No , because she had , she only needed a teenager left , she done the fifty to sixty age group |
| 24 | Have you had a wall clock or have you just had a clock ? |
| 25 | Have you just had a lecture ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Have you still got a hair in from your |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 've noticed you always used a machine . |
| 30 | First of all have you ever handled a revolver of that kind before ? |