Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's that 's really what happened , and it was n't until eighteen sixty , or eighteen fifty eight , fifty nine in time , that the Railway directors agreed to reopen this branch line , as they 'd been basically promised a lot more traffic . |
| 2 | Page only needed a par four on the ninth green , his final hole , to prevent a play-off and win by a stroke from the 20-year-old from Drayton Park , Staffordshire . |
| 3 | She paused and then because he said nothing , but only kept a silence full of sympathy and put more bread on her plate , she burst out , ‘ I did everything wrong that I could . |
| 4 | The question begs , you have to say , How come when you 've just retarmacked a road That 's right , electricity board , gas , erm cable T V company ? |
| 5 | It should also be remembered that the Branch had already made a donation some 10 years ago of more than £13,000 to Richard Peck House . |
| 6 | I 've already had a walk this morning . |
| 7 | In the USA a truck system has already performed a feat comparable with the arrest , in the earlier days of radio , of the murderer Dr. Crippen in an Atlantic liner as the result of a Morse message . |
| 8 | I 've just had a Polo all they 're looking at is like what kind of accents you talk in |
| 9 | It 's just gone a bit sticky like . |
| 10 | You 've just gone a lot quieter |
| 11 | After graduation I worked in London for a couple of years , but in 1985 a decision had to be made : my husband had just finished a sixmonth intensive training course at the Thatching Advisory Service in Berkshire . |
| 12 | The band , who have just finished a tour supporting Soul II Soul are currently playing PAs around the county at Bradford Phase II on November 12 then the Blackpool Soul Weekender 23–25 . |
| 13 | The band , who have just finished a tour supporting Soul II Soul are currently playing PAs around the county at Bradford Phase II on November 12 then the Blackpool Soul Weekender 23–25 . |
| 14 | Carrick finished ahead on two of the four rinks with James Caldwell shutting out Michael Nutt in a remarkable spell when the Old Bleach skip went from 10-6 up to 25-10 down , before he scored again and finally finished a cliff-hanging two ends with a 30-13 victory . |
| 15 | It 's just happened a lot this week . |
| 16 | In winter good light is vital and they 're best kept a bit warmer than other types . |
| 17 | In the USA the Cerullo organisation has already launched a network similar to the one now planned for Europe . |
| 18 | We had been admitted to my university , though only just ; it was under ten years since Cambridge has allowed women to take degrees ( and one don still addressed a hall full of students as ‘ gentlemen ’ ) . |
| 19 | It has always looked a bit ramshackle , with its claustrophobic nets , which were gas-lit until the 1960s . |
| 20 | He was taller than most of them , his nickname being ‘ Lofty ’ , and always looked a lot cleaner than his oil-stained gang . |
| 21 | COLIN STOKES , the SCRIMLEY ARSENAL goalkeeper once owned a dog that only had three legs ! |
| 22 | The Peace People 's work has always included a prison visiting service . |
| 23 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 24 | THIRD DIVISION Workington were yesterday handed a dream Regal Trophy third round tie against five-times winners Wigan . |
| 25 | Andrea bought him , you know the big ja he 's g always got a pocket full any time at all ooh that jar Andrea bought him that Christmas full of toffees |
| 26 | Yes I know I 'll take it when I go down to the post office and I keep forgetting , do n't like bothering with it on Thursday because they 've always got a shop full and I go |
| 27 | Employers had locked out employees on Feb. 1 for refusing to handle inter-bank payments , and the union formally called a strike two weeks later . |
| 28 | The DPR sales manager once introduced a game some might find offensive , to a dealing force , amongst which were three women . |
| 29 | His surges down the left always posed a threat 8 |
| 30 | The back division have badly under-performed while the forwards have hardly put a foot wrong , with debutant No 8 , Michael Galwey , outstanding . |