Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 2 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 3 | Beyond the pine , and a little lower on the cliff , a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure . |
| 4 | As he got more excited as they got closer to Pollensa so Ruth sank into a deeper depression . |
| 5 | So democracy came as a late addition to the competitive market society and the liberal state . |
| 6 | Furthermore , only modules referenced by a package can be so explicitly sent to offline storage . |
| 7 | Only Henrietta stood in a silent spasm , her entire body controlled by the Walkman which gripped her head and blared into her ears the sound of her own personal disco , reminding her , to her quiet fury , of the parties she was missing by coming on holiday with her parents . |
| 8 | When Pinkie is cornered he sees , as perhaps Joyce did in a Lambeth alley , ‘ Semitic faces ringing him all round . |
| 9 | So America seemed like a good place to come . ’ |
| 10 | At eleven o'clock Tony went for a drink , but the bottle was empty . |
| 11 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 12 | Hitherto Switzerland accounted for a third of all hazardous waste imported into Britain . |
| 13 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 14 | ‘ Not honour 'd with a human shape . ’ |
| 15 | They got back into the car and drove slowly along the rutted , narrow turnoff , until finally Nicolo pointed to a low rise . |
| 16 | Thus radio spoke to a large proportion of the population , both urban and rural , either in a language spoken at home or at least in one closely related to it . |
| 17 | Moreover , between 793 and 796 Aethelheard but not Hygeberht subscribed to a grant of land by Offa to the church of Worcester within the archdiocese of Lichfield ( CS 272 , 273 : S 146 ) , and in 796 to a grant of land also in Hwiccian territory by Ecgfrith , king of the Mercians , Offa 's son and short-lived successor , again without Hygeberht ( CS 277 , 278 : S 148 ) . |
| 18 | Soon Babushka fell into a deep sleep only to be woken by a beautiful golden light which came from a far corner of the stable . |
| 19 | He got hold of the picture , found it was just Elvis snipped from a magazine , confronted the girl , and she conceded , accompanying him to the dance : ‘ I guess I 've had a connection with him ever since , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Normally Rachel slept for a few hours after the feed and Carrie had made sure her husband knew what to do should the baby wake up before she got home . |
| 21 | When they were almost home Edward pulled into a farm gateway and turned off the engine . |
| 22 | The rucksack and the rifle I had been carrying since yesterday evening seemed like a ton weight . |
| 23 | Usually Artai behaved like a fractious child , his temper uncertain , his demeanour abrupt and discourteous . |
| 24 | However , the conceptual oppositions which structure Western philosophical thought , such as sensible v. intelligible , form v. content all imply that ideas , and indeed content of any kind , exist independently of the medium in which they are formulated : the word ‘ medium ’ itself conveys the secondary status that language is given in these conceptual oppositions , always de fined as a vehicle or an instrument of something separate from it which governs it from without . |
| 25 | Ambulatory monitoring during cardiac arrest has shown that the mechanism is usually VF preceded by a variable period of organised ventricular tachycardia ( VT ) . |
| 26 | BZW 's decision to break off talks came after a top-level meeting between executives at the investment bank and Morgan yesterday . |
| 27 | Eventually Sligo/Mullingar won by a kick of the ball . |
| 28 | Its origins are lost in antiquity but the Rock has probably ben used as a fortress from the Iron Age . |
| 29 | A few weeks later Perdita sat under a jacaranda tree which was scattering purply-blue petals all over the parched brown ground . |
| 30 | Instantly Strawberry turned into a side run and called , " Kingcup ? |