Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 2 | He was always impressed with Leonard 's room , which he found to resemble more a study than a youth 's bedroom — already the style was evident . |
| 3 | I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink . |
| 4 | Damory was present at Lancaster 's assembly at Sherburn , Yorkshire , in June 1321 , when the earl tried to put together a coalition against Despenser and his father . |
| 5 | Last year , health scientists at government agencies tried to put together a paper outlining the state-of-the art of identifying possible carcinogenic substances . |
| 6 | Martin then remembered some chocolates he 'd received anonymously a month earlier . |
| 7 | ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town . |
| 8 | I was about to respond that she 'd added quite a lot to the letters , but Masha came out of the bathroom . |
| 9 | But it was that 's what it that 's where er you know , there was he had been quite successful in this lawsuit you know , he 'd made quite a bit of money . |
| 10 | Anger was n't something he 'd felt even a flicker of . |
| 11 | Events in Vietnam , in many ways comparable although obviously complicated by the factor of French colonialism , were of infinitely less interest and for the moment seemed to require only a definition of attitudes rather than acts of policy . |
| 12 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 13 | The day had been warm , and since it was n't , he decided , an occasion for dressing , he settled for a light linen suit which he 'd worn rather a lot ten years ago in New Zealand . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 15 | More Antony 's personality seemed to change quite a lot in the play , his true , selfish colours came out in this speech . |
| 16 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 17 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 18 | But , in fact , he seemed to have quite a campaign going against the staff , so he might easily have said something . ’ |
| 19 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 20 | He 'd cleared away a lot of last autumn 's leaves . |
| 21 | I feel certain that many non-disabled adults would find some of the journeys the students learnt to undertake quite a challenge with only rural public transport to depend on . |
| 22 | In time ‘ yeoman ’ came to mean primarily a farmer who had raised himself out of the ruck of common husbandman , ‘ such as be exempted out of the rascalitie of the popular bee called and written yeomen , as in the degree next vnto gentlemen ’ ; and while careful to avoid making wealth appear the sole criterion , Smith adds that ‘ these tende their owne businesse , come not to meddle in publike matters and iudgements but when they are called and glad when they are deliuered thereof ’ . |
| 23 | The French arrived carrying only a doctor and two other medical staff and safely evacuated 21 wounded Muslims . |
| 24 | Alan Sked put forward a plan for European union , endorsed by the Group 's council , that eschewed bureaucratic federalism . |
| 25 | Then , Poland might just surprise themselves and a crowd expected to fill only a quarter of the 72,000-capacity stadium . |
| 26 | For example , asked to draw accurately a triangle with all the sides 6 cm long , 52 per cent of the boys were judged to have done so compared with 30 per cent of the girls . |
| 27 | Gingerly she backed the old Mini away from the Bentley , then pushed the gear lever into first and began to drive forward a couple of feet . |
| 28 | He began to fantasise quite a bit about this as he walked down Kensington Church Street . |
| 29 | Jessamy finally began to relax just a fraction . |
| 30 | While waiting he brought out a penknife and began whittling away a table-top . |