Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 2 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 3 | He was the supreme arbiter of protocol and courtly behaviour , and it was likely that he would be put out , to say the least , by the notion of a Kha-Khan who behaved with such a lack of reserve . |
| 4 | To contemporary commentators like Fyvel , the only other section of the population who behaved in such a way were the homosexuals ; what he did n't know was that this pursuit of pleasure , and concentration on self , were exactly those traits that would become desirable , and eventually , socially acceptable , with the extraordinary success of Elvis Presley and the Teen age that followed . |
| 5 | Here they behaved in such a way as to convince the ASS officers that their lives and those of others were under threat , hence the decision to fire . |
| 6 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 7 | The temperature change would bring a marked reduction in the biodiversity of Tibetan Alpine ecosystems , and hundreds of thousands of hectares of the east China plains would be flooded if sea levels rose by half a metre , a change which would place the country 's major coastal cities at risk . |
| 8 | Have you have you got any er idea of how i it came about that a group was so organized ? |
| 9 | That 's why Keegan 's swoop came as such a shock . |
| 10 | All this came as such a shock . |
| 11 | I have long dream 'd of such a kind of man , |
| 12 | President Gorbachev and other Politburo members have angrily , and at times desperately , appealed against such a move , for fear it would lead to a breakup of the Soviet Communist Party and , ultimately , of the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Few countries in the world — certainly not economic sloths like Japan or West Germany — came near such a rate of progress . |
| 14 | I was perking up under the influence of what seemed like half a ton of protein . |
| 15 | 17th century male dancers were trained to dance female roles and were often called upon to do so in serious works , costumed in such a way as to disguise their gender . |
| 16 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 17 | The smell was so all-pervasive that nothing consumed within half a mile of it could taste of anything not pertaining to dog . |
| 18 | The victim had 15 stab wounds , including one to his neck which came within half a millimetre of severing a major blood vessel . |
| 19 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 20 | It came as a shock to Stella , learning that educated people like Dotty Blundell and Meredith adhered to such a faith . |
| 21 | Speaking at an analysts ' breakfast in Chicago last week where Comdex Spring took place , Pieper alluded to such a breakthrough as ‘ removing the firewalls ’ between the various microprocessors . |
| 22 | He thought and meditated ; filled them out by experience of pastoral care and by writing ; and came to such a unity that all his later life he had a coherence of outlook , in thought and devotion and ethic , which was an anchor to the Church of England in difficult days . |
| 23 | An 11-pounder I caught came to such a bite , and four others around 9lb on the same day to similar bites . |
| 24 | In 1832 a young Englishman , Charles Darwin , twenty-four years old and naturalist on HMS Beagle , a brig sent by the Admiralty in London on a surveying voyage round the world , came to such a forest outside Rio de Janeiro . |
| 25 | Now you admit that all your fundamental objectives and ambitions which flowed from such a strategy are themselves unrealisable , certainly over the course of this parliament . |
| 26 | It is unfortunate that the team headed by Olive Tunstall feel the need to launch into a personal attack on Heim , however , saying that ‘ we consider that Heim acted in such a way as to reduce the credibility of the profession ’ . |
| 27 | In such situations its decision should only be overturned for bias when it acted in such a way prior to its decision that it could not properly have exercised its discretion , taking due account of its interest in the proceedings . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure ! ’ he replied in such a way it made Maggie giggle again . |
| 29 | This is exemplified by a circular dome-shaped bead from Ur shaped in such a way as to expose one of the pale layers as a ring close to the perimeter . |
| 30 | Polypropylene has replaced nylon in this range and no standard recipes existed for such a blend . |