Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Jed had lost all sense of time as the external heart slowly pumped a solution of formaldehyde into the dead woman 's body , as the dead woman 's body began to blush . |
| 2 | It 's this version which is now recognised as the rarest Dylan record in the world and valued in Neal Umpred 's Goldmine Price Guide To Collectible Record Albums as being worth $10,000 , though a bid of over $12,000 eventually secured a deal . |
| 3 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 4 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 5 | He believed that his views alone provided a safeguard against Antinomianism . |
| 6 | The logic of such views naturally contained a number of contradictions . |
| 7 | Gone are the days when the , existence of a signed building contract merely reflected a formality required by prudent businessmen . |
| 8 | For example , if a programme successfully absorbed a cash limit squeeze in one year by increased efficiency , this expenditure saving was not carried forward into future plans . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State was able to influence the drafting of the terms of reference and the composition of the working parties ; yet the working parties necessarily contained a majority of professionals and in due course reported in ways which again the Secretary of State could only partially modify . |
| 10 | The American Psychological Association only established a Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues in 1987 , twelve years after it founded the Division of the Psychology of Women . |
| 11 | Maybe the parties foolishly signed a pact which then found its way into the hands of the DTI . |
| 12 | The power of the hit dislodged the ball and Gregory gleefully dropped a goal . |
| 13 | In the latest year , InterCity just scraped a surplus of £2m on turnover of £900m and Network SouthEast slipped back to a £180m deficit , reflecting a drop of 8% in commuter journeys into central London . |
| 14 | Pattie finally called a halt to the relationship 18 months later when Alan , drunk and angry , knocked over the baby in an attempt to attack Pattie . |
| 15 | Their innings , though , was marked by a wonderful display from Gooch , his thirty-sixth attempt finally produced a Test century , and it was very much worth waiting for . |
| 16 | But it is impossible to say whether this was because the partner 's monitoring of management boosted efficiency or because the Morgan association generally indicated a monopoly . |
| 17 | A cold drying wind expressively called a yerdzook dried out stacks that were on the wet side . |
| 18 | Pachomius 's monastery quickly generated a number of offshoots . |
| 19 | This decline is possibly of post-war origin , as in 1949 Thorney Island , the marshes around Pagham Harbour and Selsey , and Rye Harbour still held a total of about 150 pairs compared to about 35 in 1967 . |
| 20 | In 1941 membership slumped to 120 men , but rather more ladies ; and despite the War , advertisements for members appeared and the Club still employed a caddie master , Jim Wetton , whose wage was increased from £1 10s. 0d. to £2 0s. 0d . |
| 21 | When the going got rough the brothers usually sent a deputy to face the unpleasant hostility to which they would be exposed . |
| 22 | The rock sensibility always included a strand of folk ideology — folk musicians and folk ways , particularly the celebration of ‘ live ’ performance , were central to the development of rock in both Britain and the United States . |
| 23 | In spite of all the obvious agonising , has Neil ever experienced a time when he was totally happy with his sound , and could quote a recorded example of this ? |
| 24 | It is certainly not without significance that the Association always maintained a link with the new youth movement by aligning itself with the Boys ' Brigade and playing an active role in the formation of the Scouts . |
| 25 | She was surprised how bare the gardens had become , except for the lopsided apple tree in the lower orchard whose branches still carried a crop of apples shimmering like tiny brassy moons . |
| 26 | This suggests that subjects always identified a word first and then decided whether or not it rhymed ; and that the rhyme decision took about 140 milliseconds to make after the word had been identified . |
| 27 | A research study from Cyprus showed that potatoes treated with a certain insecticide still contained a residue of 10 per cent ( 0.55mg per kg ) in the skin after 16 weeks of storage . |
| 28 | One of the authors once taught a class who applauded at the end of classes they enjoyed . |
| 29 | Illustrating the point , a colleague of one of the present authors once administered a battery of overinclusion ( thought disorder ) tests to a group of local artists . |
| 30 | In the Israeli-Palestinian talks , the Israeli delegation formally tabled a set of proposals for the holding of municipal elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and an offer to permit Palestinian control of local health services . |