Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category . |
| 2 | Time and again , they came upon heaps of white shard-like bones or tripped cursing over a trailing white , skeletal arm or leg protruding from its thin veil of soil . |
| 3 | For every dot that needed to build up a character a spark is generated by the printer which burns away the thin silver coating revealing the black backing paper . |
| 4 | At one time it looked like everything we 'd done in twenty years was going to be spread out on the table — and that included sating up a group to destabilise our closest ally if it got needed . |
| 5 | Several new plant species were recorded for the reserve but their most interesting find was of signs of a badger that had dug out a bees nest from the ground . |
| 6 | The forces that had called forth a great preacher like Griffith were passing and he needed to be taken out of the limelight . |
| 7 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 8 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
| 9 | This latter is illustrated by the fact that until recently operating licences were issued more or less indiscriminately to any company that wanted to set up a sawmill . |
| 10 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 11 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 12 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 13 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 14 | The Economy Ministers of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay met on July 20 in the Uruguayan capital , Montevideo , and agreed to work out a joint set of rules to combat the dumping and sale of subsidised goods by non-members of their prospective common market agreed under the Mercosur Treaty of March 1991 [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 15 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 16 | She walked over to the pond and bent to pick up a small pebble , skimming it across the glittering water , watching the way it bounced , then sank , leaving behind it only ripples . |
| 17 | Mr Bishop , who has plastic joints in his hips , knees and spine , is an ex-boxer and tried to put up a struggle , but they were too strong for him . |
| 18 | It bit me and scratched me , and tried to escape up a curtain , which perhaps explains why I prefer Koi any day . |
| 19 | She came up once and tried to get out a cry for help to the others standing there , but the laughing gripped her lungs and they thought she was fooling . |
| 20 | She could scarcely breathe , let alone struggle , but when she heard the sound of someone in the undergrowth she knew it was Travis and tried to get out a warning . |
| 21 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 22 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 23 | ‘ The fire has been lit and allowed to die down a couple of times — and I once smelt the stuff . ’ |
| 24 | An even bigger shock was in store when the organisers set to and began breaking out a peg for everyone . |
| 25 | While waiting he brought out a penknife and began whittling away a table-top . |
| 26 | As the front door slammed behind them , Josh finished drying his face and hands and began to put on a clean shirt and a stiff collar . |
| 27 | Gingerly she backed the old Mini away from the Bentley , then pushed the gear lever into first and began to drive forward a couple of feet . |
| 28 | She reached across the desk , grabbed the instrument and began tapping out a number with the angry , impatient air of someone who has been kept waiting for an unacceptably long time . |
| 29 | She poured some warm water from the washstand jug into the basin , tipped in a little shampoo , and began to work up a lather ; and as she worked , she talked . |
| 30 | On the other hand , more than a few civilians were sloppy and needed to smarten up a bit . |