Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first mill powered was the one at Coberley which still survives , although now converted to form a sizeable and elegant dwelling . |
| 2 | I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people . |
| 3 | LC were enriched from BALB/c TE-EC ( ref. 22 ) , stained with M5/114.15.12 ( anti-I-A d and anti-I-E d , ATCC ) and FITC-goat ( Fab' ) 2 anti-rat IgG ( TAGO ) and additionally purified using a BDIS Facstar Plus flow cytometer . |
| 4 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 5 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 6 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 7 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 8 | They must have felt the need for a farmer 's almanac and so started to keep a tally of days , which they recorded with special symbols . |
| 9 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 10 | And he said , I suddenly felt so ill , you know , and I was shaking , and , and , and , and , and obviously started running a temperature and , and my , my , er and , and shivering and whatever . |
| 11 | Densan tended initially to limit managerial discretion much more and thus seemed to offer a better alternative for labour . |
| 12 | Mary Ann Doane 's argument concerning the ‘ women 's films ’ of the 1940s , for example , was that these products of mainstream fiction cinema were directed at a female audience and thus did construct a female gaze . |
| 13 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 14 | But history will record that McLaren solved its problem ( by setting up the car as they had for Spain ) , Hunt was on pole alongside Niki , Niki led the race for eight laps until his engine blew , Hunt then led it but was put under heavy pressure by Depailler , was suffering from the dry heaves inside his helmet and somehow survived to win a race from which Niki garnered nothing . |
| 15 | Endearingly , Francesca herself was not good at drafting that sort of answer and usually had to enlist a more senior colleague to achieve the correct polished hand-off . |
| 16 | She became school librarian , and always seemed to have a book in her hand . |
| 17 | If a keycard is lost the lock is simply and quickly recoded to accept a new card without the need and cost to replace a lock or reckey a cylinder . |
| 18 | The Dormouse woke up and quickly began to tell a story , but a few minutes later it was asleep again . |
| 19 | You 're not that blonde one I 've noticed driving around and nearly swerved to have a better look at the other day are you ? |
| 20 | After leaving Devon the family had gone to Lancashire for work in the mills there and later started to make a new life for themselves in South Africa . |
| 21 | Eventually , I rang the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and said I 'd got this botfly and really did need a bit of surgery , and they said ‘ Come along today . ’ |
| 22 | The company was due to announce new RISC machines in October , and originally wanted to release a 680X0 offering at the same time but has cancelled its decision . |
| 23 | In many Endopterygote insects , more especially those whose eggs are deposited within plant tissue or in other concealed situations , the distal abdominal segments become attenuated and often telescoped to form a retractile tube or oviscapt which is used as an ovipositor . |
| 24 | At frequent intervals the cloth is turned and partially refolded to present a clean cloth surface and at less frequent intervals the cloth is thoroughly rinsed , wrung out and refolded . |
| 25 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 26 | He witnessed the success of Dermovate cream in one sufferer and even went to see a Harley Street physician . |
| 27 | Paul ended up being selected as one of the 36 contestants for the autumn series — and immediately had to start a rigorous six week training programme to make sure he could tackle the assault course part of the programme . |
| 28 | In 1936 a patient , thought to be suffering from schizophrenia , was found to have abnormal activity in the EEG and then discovered to have a cerebral tumour . |
| 29 | He dismissively described how this man had ‘ come in , taken the material provided , and then had written a childish and critical book on the police , out of which he got a Ph.D . ’ |
| 30 | Men who were drunk at market were put in these cells till sober , and then had to pay a penny to get out . |