Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He leant his arm along the top of the car door , letting his eyes rest on her face for one moment that felt like half a lifetime to her . |
| 2 | Dispensing with the paths that snaked through half a dozen different garden realms , she brushed through the shrubbery , feeling a little wild in the wake of her primitive gesture . |
| 3 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 4 | He thought and meditated ; filled them out by experience of pastoral care and by writing ; and came to such a unity that all his later life he had a coherence of outlook , in thought and devotion and ethic , which was an anchor to the Church of England in difficult days . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that a form of parasitic violence has battened upon this pastime and flourished to such an extent that it has almost killed the host institution . |
| 6 | It is as if each writer had taken the memory of some powerful event ( the terrible shock of being woken by a piercing noise ; discovering the ‘ magical ’ properties of magnets ) and daydreamed in such a concentrated way about it that a group of people , a situation , a story began to emerge . |
| 7 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 8 | Fifteen miles south of Garberville my eyes began to close and I pulled over and slept for half an hour . |
| 9 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |
| 10 | As we have stood enraptured on the mountain peaks , threaded our way through the bosky dells and trod for many a mile the vast moorlands , we have often felt it to be indeed a land of glory and beauty . ’ |
| 11 | The miner left the house gloomily but returned in half an hour with the fingers working . |
| 12 | He did not talk to Ranulf about the problem but listened with half an ear to the young man 's description of his stay at Tynemouth as he wondered what to do next . |
| 13 | Though he needed no picture to see her very clearly , a tall , fair , calm lady with a high forehead and blonde hair , her features regular , smooth and serene , not beautiful , but possessed of such a quality of gentleness and repose . |
| 14 | The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act 1919 , designed to facilitate the admission of women to the House of Commons but worded in such a way as to be apt to give them access also to the House of Lords was seized upon by Viscountess Rhondda as having this effect but the Committee of Privileges refused to endorse her claim and the House rejected it . |