Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill tried to sit up to get a better look but as he did so , knocked over a book and it thumped onto the shelf . |
| 2 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought we 'd decided not to have a post-mortem . ’ |
| 4 | Though he almost came a cropper on one occasion — United had just squandered a chance to cancel out the first-half lead Ian Baird had given Hearts — his footwork was pretty good , which is more than can be said for those on the pitch itself . |
| 5 | The deficit on valuation of the properties of £226,764 ( v £817,700 ) is charged to p&l account ; Retirement Assured does not have a revaluation reserve account . |
| 6 | This meant that even though no goods had actually been received by the carrier 's faithless agent or that the goods received were misdescribed , the mere fact that a bill of lading had been issued by someone empowered to do so created a right to claim the value of the described goods . |
| 7 | I began to go around following a teenage girl known as Crazy Eneas . |
| 8 | But the geographical areas served do obviously make a difference . |
| 9 | The Public Schools which we visited and enjoyed had already changed a great deal since the War . |
| 10 | If the previous Labour Government in which he served had only caught a few more headlines and been as active in prison improvements and new prison building as all Conservative Governments since 1979 have been , his comments could be taken more seriously . |
| 11 | He loved to come here take a slog and go down the meadows . |
| 12 | Jack Butler was almost ugly when he was angry ; it was a side of him that the many thousands of women who watched racing only to catch a glimpse of him never saw . |
| 13 | Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course . |
| 14 | Now he has stopped taking drugs and started sitting around watching a lot of television . |
| 15 | The Zimbabwe Test batsmen started the day needing 25 against Sefton but went soaring on to post a superb 140 not out . |
| 16 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 17 | That is , while they did not start courses at the institutions we studied , they did go on to take a course elsewhere . |
| 18 | One deaf person who did come through to play a leading role in deaf affairs was David Fyfe . |
| 19 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 20 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 21 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 22 | You said has n't got a partner . |
| 23 | as if that were an omen , the race itself went just as badly and after nine laps Jackie had to come in to change a deflating tyre . |
| 24 | Chain-stores and industries may take full-page advertisements in newspapers to proclaim their greenness , but no millionaire had come forward to offer a share of his eco-sound profits . |
| 25 | The grey tracksuited Apostle , who had come up to make a routine check of the sleeping quarters , doubled over with a grunt of agony . |
| 26 | They had come together to attend a major seminar on the development of an independent and pluralistic African press , held in Windhoek , Namibia , 29 April — 5 May . |
| 27 | These people — ordinary working-class folk like me — had come together to celebrate a gay relationship and to wish it success and happiness . |
| 28 | One morning after breakfast and a prolonged peering into the mirror , Arty broke and screamed at Phil , who had come across to borrow a newspaper . |
| 29 | Although the Security Council had voted unanimously to send a mission to investigate the killings , this had been frustrated by the Israeli government 's refusal to co-operate . |
| 30 | reported that the Authority had met once to discuss a complaint regarding a practical examination . |