Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [noun] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 2 | Some said the sport came from the Norsemen , others muttered about the Romans who after all had been in the area for several centuries and left little else but stone , and one literary aficionado had just written a treatise tracing it back in direct line to Jacob 's wrestling with the angel . |
| 3 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 4 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 5 | As there was little justification for the lengths to which these itinerant justices went , when a vigorous protest was made to the king he promptly issued a writ ordering them to refrain from hearing testamentary , matrimonial and moral causes ; these matters were confirmed to fall exclusively within the competence of the church courts . |
| 6 | I usually leave a message saying I 'm having sex at the moment ring back in about three seconds . |
| 7 | Did I send a message to them , erm , I , I did n't send a message , no I 'm sure I did n't send a message chasing them saying how about a fresh order or whatever . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 9 | A few days passed , then came a letter instructing me to join my unit at Enfield , London . |
| 10 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps somewhere in the back of Edward Crumwallis 's brain there ran a murmur telling him that Dr Frome had every right to be . |
| 13 | It supported a resolution opposing war by ‘ organizing working-class action , including the general strike ’ and yet accepted a resolution committing it to a general reduction of armaments within the security of the League of Nations 's commitment to take action against aggressor states . |
| 14 | Colorado airport officials recently passed a resolution denouncing it . |
| 15 | They had an interest in playing golf together so specifically formed a society giving it the name of the road they happened to be in at the time — Worple Way , Harrow . |
| 16 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |
| 17 | Yeah , I mean I 'm I 'm very lucky because my parents are very liberal , and I mean they discussed sex with me quite early on and I 've never had a problem discussing it with them . |
| 18 | Yeah but if we charge twenty P each we 're actually making a profit selling them . |