Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [det] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Suez operation smacked too much of a Normandy-style landing , and too little of the quick military reaction needed in the nuclear era , which is also the era of instant communication and mass-media debate on a world scale . |
| 2 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 3 | It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same . |
| 4 | It came out all in a rush , |
| 5 | ‘ It just seemed too much of a gamble , ’ he explained , and in fact the 22-year-old left-hander turned them down once before temptation overcame him . |
| 6 | Stewart became still more of a national hero when he represented Australia at rowing in the Melbourne Olympics . |
| 7 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 8 | Condemned as cowards , deserters , they were shot by their own side in a war which wiped out much of a generation . |
| 9 | I puzzled over this for a week or so , before a second whisper clarified the message . |
| 10 | Robert Chesterman implied as much in a CBC radio interview with Karajan some years ago . |
| 11 | Even when the houses were brand new , they were suitable only for people who lived very similar lives , and whose conduct varied very little from a fairly restrictive norm . |
| 12 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 13 | ( Seeing Joe Orton 's plays in New York , I could n't understand why English friends thought so much of a self-indulgent , kooky lightweight ) . |
| 14 | The space inside looked as much like a junkyard as the space outside . |
| 15 | The habit of this dominant Quaker in the BFASS of arranging deputations to ministers and approaching kings and emperors brought even less of a result than it had in earlier generations . |
| 16 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 17 | Historically , religion mattered very much at a national level . |
| 18 | She was vaguely aware of being guided expertly away from the crowded floor , and it was n't until they stepped out into the cooler night air that she realised how much of a relief it was to leave the noise behind . |
| 19 | Although Iraqi forces behind the front line put up more of a fight than those overrun in the initial phase of the offensive , resistance remained both light and sporadic . |
| 20 | His speed of thought presented as much of a threat to United as his speed off the mark . |
| 21 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 22 | She learned how much of a lie in August , when she went to Seth 's house and walked in on what she later called ‘ a horror show ’ . |
| 23 | When Mr Shamir 's government fell apart , it was closer than ever before to accepting the American terms for talks with the Palestinians , even though in the end Mr Shamir proved too much of a hawk to start talking . |
| 24 | Appearing on the tape proved too much of a millstone for most bands and The Wedding Present were the only ones that carried on developing at a reasonable pace . |
| 25 | But relations between the quiet , let's-get-on-with-it Cooder and the not entirely sane Captain proved too much of a strain , and after this brief walk on the wild side Ry immersed himself in session work — much of it bread-and-butter stuff , although he did play for Randy Newman and Phil Ochs , began to learn about music for films , and became a friend of The Stones , a period he does not generally discuss . |
| 26 | A routine straight sets quarter final victory looked on the cards for Edberg but his serve began to misfire badly while unseeded Morgan 's own delivery proved too much of a handful for the world No 3 . |
| 27 | I wrote as much in a letter to my bishop in Scotland in 1974 or 1975 , at which time I was asking that he ordain me . |
| 28 | And Robert McNamara , the new US Secretary of Defence , had even less of a feel for the special relationship than the President . |
| 29 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 30 | You operated very much as a self-contained individual . |