Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She encouraged the rich to take holidays within Iran , so tried to foster a sense of Iranian culture and a national pride among a people notoriously liable to succumb to self-pity and paranoia . |
| 4 | Their ancestors had scorned and derided Vincent and now they were rich from Van Gogh postcards and souvenirs bought by people like Skye , who only came to catch a whisper of his ghost . |
| 5 | They obviously enjoyed playing a game with each other . |
| 6 | I only began to smell a rat when he could n't come up with the documents he claimed to have . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The rain had subsided by the time she was ready to set out , so she only needed to knot a sweater round her shoulders . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She only managed to hail a taxi after fifteen minutes of running , and when she did she was almost afraid that he would not drive her because of her soaked condition , but , after a stream of highly ominous muttering in French , he finally let her in . |
| 11 | You only saw heard a bit of it . |
| 12 | Obviously did do a thing . |
| 13 | She much preferred to take a cab in to the centre of town when she was on these assignments . |
| 14 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 15 | Even before Hello , Dolly ! went into production , Richard Zanuck had agreed with Gene Kelly and producer Frank McCarthy , who together had made A Guide for the Married Man , to team them up again for a screen version of the fantasy Tom Swift and His Wizard Airship . |
| 16 | Our first Members ' Evening was held at the Community College on Friday 1st March 1991 and its success can be judged by the fact that it went on until the Social Secretary literally had to call a halt at 11.15 p.m. ! |
| 17 | Jay at three in the morning — hello , young lovers , wherever you are ! — drunk , suddenly had to see a picture of Lucy . |
| 18 | Saffroned mussels with pasta came to me when moules marinières , intended as a first course , suddenly had to feed a houseful . |
| 19 | But the time came when Graham Thomas , who was then the Trust 's Gardens Adviser , suddenly had to produce a report and I began to see that it was n't quite like the old days . |
| 20 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |
| 21 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 22 | In the following May , Miller again reported illness , being just recovered from a fever and subsequent attack of rheumatism , so wished to postpone a visit to Woburn . |
| 23 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 24 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 25 | She only had to shake a hand to increase the revenue and bring more publicity to the organization than any amount of money could buy . |
| 26 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 27 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 30 | 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 . |