Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to get teased about it quite a lot . |
| 2 | She was remembering the revelation that had come to her just a few short moments ago , in what seemed like another age now , before Alexander had kissed her . |
| 3 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 4 | He finds , in talking to Candice 's friends , that collaboration during the war has become for them either a means of attacking the government or a subject of high-minded discussion . |
| 5 | Without this loss an equilibrium would be reached in which only a small proportion of the water in the atmosphere would be dissociated . |
| 6 | Mug up on a few details : whether they called the masters ‘ beaks ’ or ‘ dons ’ ; whether sweets were referred to as ‘ tuck ’ or ‘ sock ’ ; where you would have slept , in a ‘ house ’ or ‘ dorm ’ ; what barmy school game was played on them once a year . |
| 7 | Mary Estlin 's Bristol and Clifton Ladies ' Anti-Slavery Society also warmed to the changed tone of Broad Street although they had broken from them barely a year earlier . |
| 8 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
| 9 | The fund of goodwill , of love even , which she had brought with her just a year ago , must be almost exhausted . |
| 10 | Questions of religion mattered so much to the leaders of the colony that arguments in favour of religious toleration would have seemed to them simply a new onslaught on the purity of religion . |
| 11 | And the passion with which the surviving English monks defended their past and resisted change must have seemed to him simply a final proof of mental and spiritual decay . |
| 12 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 13 | Her mother had checked on her only a few minutes earlier , and found her sleeping soundly . |
| 14 | The directorship , for which he had struggled for years , represented to her only a house in Vanier Heights . |
| 15 | Well , as you know , she did n't have a sweet tooth , not her , but I — They were sent to her twice a year for as long as I can remember . |
| 16 | Was the reservation letter received by him merely a promise as to the future or was it a statement of present fact ? |