Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Jed had lost all sense of time as the external heart slowly pumped a solution of formaldehyde into the dead woman 's body , as the dead woman 's body began to blush . |
| 2 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 3 | Gone are the days when the , existence of a signed building contract merely reflected a formality required by prudent businessmen . |
| 4 | For example , if a programme successfully absorbed a cash limit squeeze in one year by increased efficiency , this expenditure saving was not carried forward into future plans . |
| 5 | The American Psychological Association only established a Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues in 1987 , twelve years after it founded the Division of the Psychology of Women . |
| 6 | Pattie finally called a halt to the relationship 18 months later when Alan , drunk and angry , knocked over the baby in an attempt to attack Pattie . |
| 7 | Their innings , though , was marked by a wonderful display from Gooch , his thirty-sixth attempt finally produced a Test century , and it was very much worth waiting for . |
| 8 | But it is impossible to say whether this was because the partner 's monitoring of management boosted efficiency or because the Morgan association generally indicated a monopoly . |
| 9 | A cold drying wind expressively called a yerdzook dried out stacks that were on the wet side . |
| 10 | Pachomius 's monastery quickly generated a number of offshoots . |
| 11 | This decline is possibly of post-war origin , as in 1949 Thorney Island , the marshes around Pagham Harbour and Selsey , and Rye Harbour still held a total of about 150 pairs compared to about 35 in 1967 . |
| 12 | In 1941 membership slumped to 120 men , but rather more ladies ; and despite the War , advertisements for members appeared and the Club still employed a caddie master , Jim Wetton , whose wage was increased from £1 10s. 0d. to £2 0s. 0d . |
| 13 | The rock sensibility always included a strand of folk ideology — folk musicians and folk ways , particularly the celebration of ‘ live ’ performance , were central to the development of rock in both Britain and the United States . |
| 14 | It is certainly not without significance that the Association always maintained a link with the new youth movement by aligning itself with the Boys ' Brigade and playing an active role in the formation of the Scouts . |
| 15 | A research study from Cyprus showed that potatoes treated with a certain insecticide still contained a residue of 10 per cent ( 0.55mg per kg ) in the skin after 16 weeks of storage . |
| 16 | In the Israeli-Palestinian talks , the Israeli delegation formally tabled a set of proposals for the holding of municipal elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and an offer to permit Palestinian control of local health services . |
| 17 | Each foot soldier also carried a bow , twelve arrows and a spare bowstring as standard equipment . |
| 18 | The political character of much of the union movement on the European continent also provoked a counter-response by the non-socialist forces in society , particularly the Catholic Church , which proceeded to establish rival workers ' organisations . |
| 19 | The Governors ' Unit serviced by the Education Department also produced a news-sheet which contained updates on government and LEA reports and initiatives , and offered lists of issues for consideration . |
| 20 | It 's claimed , perhaps unsurprisingly , that the Young Pretender also spent a night out on one of the three , Sgurr Thuilm . |
| 21 | The Watts and Quimby study also demonstrated a relationship between subjective and objective risk , there was a correlation of 0.37 between subjective ratings of the chance of being involved in a near miss and objective risk , measured as accidents divided by mean traffic flow at a site . |
| 22 | In other figures where both the bust and the head are expanded in this exaggerated way , the neck clearly presented a problem : by nature a slender form , it must now be used to connect convincingly two abnormally heavy masses . |
| 23 | Denudation chronology also produced a number of debates which centred not only on the existence of surfaces of a particular number , which was not readily resolved by trend surface analysis , but also on the mode of development of planation surfaces and the significance of earth movement in influencing the denudation chronology . |
| 24 | Administered by the Treuhand and financed out of existing resources , the programme also established a fund at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau to support east European trade at below-market interest rates . |
| 25 | His vision of the future also included a reduction in university support services for authors ; fewer editors working on more books ; cheaper typesetting and data processing costs ; significantly reduced print runs ( ‘ I expect 50 copies will be considered a large run for some titles ’ ) ; electronic customer catalogues ; improved customer service ; a merging of the jobs of copy editor , designer and production controller ; and dramatically improved distribution ( ‘ the 10 minute book run off locally in the shop could soon be a reality ’ ) . |
| 26 | A locally constructed gas-cleaning precipitator was evaluated to reduce the need for frequent filter changing and the gasifier also incorporated a tar condensate trap . |
| 27 | The State President also made a commitment to review covert funding operations . |
| 28 | And there seems no doubt that this intense life of the mind often reached a point either of aching or of languor . |
| 29 | Within a space of some twenty years , chain mail virtually replaced a variety of earlier forms of armour . |
| 30 | Rachel sat for a moment as the wind playfully tossed a handful of leaves on to the bonnet of the car , and as she turned the key in the ignition she realised she was trembling . |