Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 2 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 3 | Half-blinded by shadow I made out a steep wall of steps and moved towards it . |
| 4 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 5 | I choked back a heartfelt tear . |
| 6 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 7 | I got quite a few things in there . |
| 8 | I answered every thing and I seem , I think I got quite a few right , I mean I do , I , if I got fifty percent on that I 'd be very pleased . |
| 9 | And er I got , they 'd got about twelve hundred members , and I think I got about a thousand , of course there were n't two of the men that knew and they voted . |
| 10 | I got back a two-word coded message . |
| 11 | ‘ I wrote a letter two days ago suggesting a meeting and this morning I got back a curt note suggesting a time . |
| 12 | I tumbled over a drunk lying spreadeagled in the close . |
| 13 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 14 | Next I tried out a different approach . |
| 15 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 16 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 17 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 18 | In trying to keep the wheelbarrow upright as I walked , I moved along a wavy line . |
| 19 | He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large . |
| 20 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 21 | In one of the Belfast inner-city communities , I built up a strong personal relationship with a very poor family . |
| 22 | I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal . |
| 23 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 24 | Peach leaves being unavailable in my strip of London back garden , I used instead a few drops of real almond essence , towards the end of the cooking , when the juice and sugar are on the boil . |
| 25 | ‘ With the Floyd I used quite a different system : two Fender 150 watt heads and two pairs of Marshall 4x12s . |
| 26 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 27 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 28 | Said alright , so I filled out a bloody form and I went to Michelins , they knew nothing about it and they had n't got it displayed either ! |
| 29 | Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there . |
| 30 | ‘ At first I was the only guest wearing it , but I noticed quite a few others following suit . ’ |