Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |
| 2 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 3 | And then I just never understood a word of what he said . |
| 4 | ‘ I hardly ever saw a doctor . |
| 5 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 6 | During my time as a gamekeeper I almost always had a supply of fresh meat available to give them . |
| 7 | I could not go inside B.P. , as I no longer had a security pass . |
| 8 | I never even saw a bath till I got to America ! |
| 9 | Only trouble was I had so much to do ; I never even had a chance to snorkel . |
| 10 | I never really had a mother either , did I ? ’ |
| 11 | I very deliberately wanted a mix of interests . |
| 12 | For many seminary-trained churchmen this was a radical change in both direction and spirit after some eighty years of official censures and directives , which too often saw a danger of heresy whenever the human part in the dialogue of revelation and the development of doctrine were explored . |
| 13 | When we consider the regulation that will be imposed and the rights of consumers in Northern Ireland , my hon. Friend will find that consumers will be much better protected and safeguarded under privatisation than if they had been left to continue with a publicly owned monopoly which too often had a life of its own and was not subject to the outside pressures that consumers have a right to bring to bear . |
| 14 | She obviously just had a thing about men who wore glasses . |
| 15 | She only just missed a donkey cart that was too far over to the left . |
| 16 | During the May to August breeding season , she found that three quarters of perch nests along a 150-metre-long stretch of the stream were parasitised by schools of minnows ; during the same period , she only once saw a minnow laying its eggs away from a perch nest . |
| 17 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
| 18 | She once again showed a maturity way beyond her 16 years and put in a fantastic bike of 53.16 and run of 32.48 to win in a time of 1.39.13 . |
| 19 | The officials of the chapel were the arch-chaplain or arch-chancellor , its honorific head , who was always an archbishop , and from the late tenth century always archbishop of Mainz , and the chancellor , who nearly always became a bishop and commonly an archbishop . |
| 20 | There was , however , one man she regarded perhaps more highly than any other , and that was the retiring , talented and very muscular boxer Marcel Cerdan , who unfortunately already had a wife and three sons . |
| 21 | The cake I had eaten ( thoughtfully , and in the true spirit ) had been meant for someone no longer able to make cake for herself ; the apple for someone who no longer had a garden . |
| 22 | The widow had lost ; she had to pay the costs and the fine and she began falling behind in the rent to the landlord since she no longer had a cow and its milk to sell . |
| 23 | Then Adam quietly explained that she no longer had a job . |
| 24 | She never actually gave a price for that table . |
| 25 | She never dropped out of University and she always worked ( when no-one was looking ) , but she never really felt a part of the University itself , so much as a part of Bristol the city . |
| 26 | I mean , I was one of those kids who never even saw a mirror until I was about thirteen , and by that time it was too late . |
| 27 | Cos I so , we so desperately wanted a baby . |
| 28 | But we still always had a problem finding somewhere to rehearse . |
| 29 | ‘ We very nearly had a marmalade tablecloth then ! ’ |
| 30 | We very quickly had a woman Head of Marketing , a woman in charge of publishing , a woman Head of Presentation , a woman Programme Manager , another woman commissioning editor , Sue Woodford , in charge of multi-cultural programming , Carol Haslam in charge of documentaries . |