Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours . |
| 2 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 3 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 4 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 5 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 6 | ‘ Have you seen owt of a black dog ? ’ said Jack to Philip . |
| 7 | Their doctor had murmured something about a weak heart , but Lord Grafton had dismissed the warning , saying the physician was an old woman . |
| 8 | Overdoing a successful method of defence , Charity nearly ruined everything by a palpable display of innocent formality . |
| 9 | Kylie , who 's undergone something of a radical image change in the last few months , has just released her new album , ‘ Let's Get To It ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've done something with a western that I 've never see before . |
| 11 | Unlike the skin-heads and punks of a later generation , or the teddy boys who preceded this era , many ‘ flower children ’ were non-violent and in their communitas even exhibited something of a constructive element . |
| 12 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 13 | The only human explanation was that one of us had said something in an unguarded moment . |
| 14 | And she had rarely met anyone with a sharper eye , or a truer judgement on people . |
| 15 | No one had said anything for a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid this dog affair has got everyone in a nasty mood , ’ Uncle Alfred explained . |
| 17 | Clydebank have had nothing but a damaging effect on Aberdeen , however . |
| 18 | ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd unwittingly bought one by a rival historian and you should have seen the way she turned her nose up at it . |
| 20 | Thirteen were recorded as not using an intelligence test as a determinant , though some of these used one in a few individual cases or as a qualifier . |
| 21 | I do nt think they ve had one for a few years . |
| 22 | Got one with a bigger bit gave . |
| 23 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 24 | ‘ Though I 'm surprised you have n't got something on a grander scale . ’ |
| 25 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't expect anything in the nationals , of course , ’ he said , frowning , ‘ but I thought one of the local rags might have had something about a missing boat . ’ |
| 27 | A planner , Colin Buchanan , who during the 1950s had had somewhat of a chequered career as an inspector in the Ministry of Town and Country Planning ( Bruton , 1981 ) , argued that a new situation had arisen which called for a fresh approach . |
| 28 | THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend . |
| 29 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 30 | It has also developed something of an international character ; not only does it attract a proportion of its students from overseas , but it also has strong links with overseas institutions . |