Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | er we had a lovely one but frost got that a couple of years ago . |
| 2 | I made half a pint of white sauce in the measuring jug I |
| 3 | I drunk half a pint of rum , half a pint of vodka and three or four cans of |
| 4 | On the contrary , for all the general flow of tranquillity and prosperity , a number of specific themes consistently emerged which made this a time of anxiety , even torment . |
| 5 | The official citation , more dramatic , states that under his command the remnants of II Company retook half a mile of what were once trenches , ‘ lined up as for a tattoo , singing and laughing , and saved the 151st Regiment ’ |
| 6 | In another cupboard they found half a bottle of whisky and a dribble of brandy in the bottom of a Courvoisier bottle . |
| 7 | I pulled on my shorts , sank half a pint of yoghurt , and grabbed my crippled Excalibur . |
| 8 | According to the theory , the people who used such a system of terms did not themselves , however , practise such a type of marriage but actually practices the next stage . |
| 9 | There were several reasons why Adenauer pursued such a line of argument : it might be a way of helping the new West German state to achieve equality in the international order ; it might placate West German annoyance over the role of the International Ruhr Authority ; and it might in time offer an opportunity for West Germany to regain sovereignty of the coal and steel producing Saar , which still remained in French hands . |
| 10 | We might imagine a project in which a coordinating team was actually hampered by rules of procedure which became such a straitjacket of red tape that , for example , otherwise admirable proposals might be unacceptable on a technicality . |
| 11 | He constantly came across people who adored his father and he could n't think why they did when he was such a silly little man who made such a fool of himself . |
| 12 | Some 400 million years ago , they found ways of surviving out of water and made such a success of life in their new surroundings that they ultimately gave rise to the most numerous and diverse group of all land animals , the insects . |
| 13 | I think they 're too alike but after saying that , they 're quite nice and he made such a bugger of them ai n't he ? |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry I made such a spectacle of myself . ’ |
| 15 | I made such a mess of things … ’ |
| 16 | Well they made such a mess of this ring ! |
| 17 | Gurdon has , on occasion , made such a clone of 10 toads . |
| 18 | I wonder why he made such a thing of that . |
| 19 | Everyone made such a fuss of him , ’ Andrew said . |
| 20 | Mary Ann was blind during the last few years of her life , and it had the quite understandable effect of making her very emotional ; she only had one set of grandchildren , and she made such a fuss of them : ‘ My Siddy ’ , she would say , as she stroked her young grandson 's cheek with tears in her eyes . |
| 21 | And he was going round and they made such a fuss of him cos he was Philomena 's husband |
| 22 | ‘ What I never could understand , ’ said Gerald , ‘ was why Steen , who was so good with money , made such a cock-up of that final will . |
| 23 | Robert Bisset ( 1800 ) produced such a defence of his hero Edmund Burke . |
| 24 | That I avoided such a course of action is because of my own understanding of what the institution would allow before it swung into action . |
| 25 | From her came such a whiff of defeat that Alice had to force herself to stand up to it . |
| 26 | It is sometimes said that Watkins adopted such a variety of markers , including features of all types and ages , that his ideas can be discredited on this point alone . |
| 27 | Grenada had withdrawn in 1981 from membership of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court ( ECSC ) , which automatically granted such a right of appeal , and the government was thought to have deliberately delayed re-entry to ECSC membership , originally scheduled for Aug. 1 , to obstruct this process . |
| 28 | This caused such a burst of indignation from the players that I drew stumps swearing to myself that I 'd never umpire again — and I have n't ! |
| 29 | But it seemed such a peach of a way out of trouble . |
| 30 | He poured half a glass of neat Scotch , raised it to Leonora who had seated herself in an arm chair , erect and elegant . |