Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when you had grown enough and mother had carried you there nearly a year , God opened a door for you and brought you out into this world . |
| 2 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |
| 3 | I would remember , against my will , the fragrance of coffee and hot bread , the energy that had possessed me so short a time ago , when I had felt supple as an eel , as powerful as a salmon , as sure and quiet and graceful as an owl . |
| 4 | I have n't seen him in over a year . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't think Billy has even seen her in over a year . ’ |
| 6 | I mean it says it lasts up to two years , we 've only had it on there a year |
| 7 | This morning 's episode at the flat had shaken her up quite a bit , and she needed desperately to have some time to herself in quiet surroundings . |
| 8 | She had glimpsed him afar only a moment or so ago . |
| 9 | I 've labelled you very strongly a scientist . |
| 10 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |