Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Last year , health scientists at government agencies tried to put together a paper outlining the state-of-the art of identifying possible carcinogenic substances . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | More Antony 's personality seemed to change quite a lot in the play , his true , selfish colours came out in this speech . |
| 7 | But , in fact , he seemed to have quite a campaign going against the staff , so he might easily have said something . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Then , Poland might just surprise themselves and a crowd expected to fill only a quarter of the 72,000-capacity stadium . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He began to fantasise quite a bit about this as he walked down Kensington Church Street . |
| 14 | Jessamy finally began to relax just a fraction . |
| 15 | Parapsychology is still trying to answer questions it first began to ask seriously a century ago . |
| 16 | I began to feel more a part of this vast foundation of the great Halton Experiment . |
| 17 | There was Pete in his class who really needed to shave twice a day , who had a deep voice and a very hairy chest , and he was a known bender ; and there was Stuart , who could n't look at a cloud or a diagram in TD lessons or even sometimes a house without seeing a version of the female anatomy , and lie was as smooth as a babe . |
| 18 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 19 | John Bryan had already produced a paper called Open City in San Francisco , but Art Kunkin , a former Trotskyist , decided to put together a semi-spoof , semi-newspaper , the Faire Free Press , which he hawked at the Faire . |
| 20 | It 's such a great book we decided to give away a copy to every new subscriber to Outdoor Action . |
| 21 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 22 | But in 1934 , the District managed to obtain only a promise of a mere £70 in grant-aid from the LEA for those courses provided by Whiteley — a wholly inadequate offer . |
| 23 | ‘ I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River . |
| 24 | Sweetheart sighed heavily as the final credits faded and the lights brightened to reveal only a handful of patrons dotted around the cinema . |
| 25 | The sieving of 80 tonnes of earth failed to recover even a scrap of the missing face , which must have shattered into individual crystals . |
| 26 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 28 | So we had to search quite a time to find these players . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 30 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |