Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then walked into the small alcove of electronic equipment and appeared to fiddle with some dials and buttons until music suddenly blasted out a pair of wall mounted speakers . |
| 2 | It only came out a couple of times , and I could n't get the words apart the end where it sounded something like ‘ scores off the bar , F*CK CANTONA , Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Brian Deane ’ . |
| 3 | Coleraine suddenly stepped up a gear in the last 20 minutes of normal time , a gear no-one , least of all Ards , believed they had . |
| 4 | The queue , with whom he was a great favourite , set to work to defrost his outer clothing while we from inside sent out a nip of something warming for the inner man . |
| 5 | We all spurred and whipped as we reached the bottom of the hill to keep up pace for the snow underfoot made the going heavy , when both Bowyer 's horse and that of Southgate suddenly took on a life of their own . |
| 6 | This tiny scrap suddenly took on a personality . |
| 7 | Only ran out a month ago ! |
| 8 | He took 2–38 in 10 overs , and eagerly snapped up a chance offered by Graham Gooch off Peter Martin . |
| 9 | He gently pushed back a strand of her inky black hair . |
| 10 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 11 | She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’ |
| 12 | They might have just threw in a bit er more from paper three . |
| 13 | When she finally turned over a page and saw his name , it seemed oddly unreal . |
| 14 | If she strapped them down to make herself look boyish they just stuck out a foot farther down , and ached . |
| 15 | Kelso clerk of the course Johnnie Fenwicke-Clennell was fined £150 by the Jockey Club 's disciplinary committee yesterday for inadequately briefing staff who incorrectly dolled off a fence at the 3 October meeting . |
| 16 | He just took out a knife and slashed the silk screen and that was that . ’ |
| 17 | Once this broader scope for mainstream American linguistics was established , pragmatics soon took on a life of its own , for the issues raised are interesting and important in their own right . |
| 18 | ‘ So you just dreamt up a message ? |
| 19 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 20 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 21 | Lady Dorothy soon struck up a friendship with Sir William Hooker [ q.v. ] at Kew , with whom she exchanged plants and letters ; and the relationship continued with his son and successor , Sir Joseph Hooker [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | In the empty streets we finally flagged down a taxi , prostrated ourselves before him and persuaded him to drive to the hitherto uncharted climes of Muswell Hill . |
| 23 | The next day , Christmas Day , I could not do anything , just sat around a lot of the time , lost in my own thoughts . |
| 24 | JOHN Major 's Cabinet colleagues yesterday ruled out a leadership challenge this side of the general election , as the Prime Minister 's stock remains at rock bottom in new opinion polls . |
| 25 | We quickly drew up a children 's broadcasting legend hitlist . |
| 26 | He quickly built up a reputation for his dry wit . |
| 27 | A DAREDEVIL parachutist appeared in court yesterday charged over a leap INSIDE St Paul 's Cathedral and another off Tower Bridge . |
| 28 | I was a gambler on a winning streak : it did n't matter what number I placed my bet on , it always came up a winner . |
| 29 | COMMANDER Fabian Malbon , skipper of HMS Invincible , yesterday handed over a cheque for £1,250 to cancer victim Janet Murray , right , at a Kent nursing home . |
| 30 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |