Example sentences of "[be] [verb] and [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danny confirmed that a room had already been booked and soon a porter , who wore a badge saying , ‘ Hello my name is Peter ’ conveyed the rucksack of Mr Cornelius Murphy and his companion , Mr Howard Hughes , up to their room . |
| 2 | To escape from such a condition it must first be recognized and then a strategy to move backwards a step at a time until a new route is found must be followed . |
| 3 | The Law Commission in their Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) , recommended that s15(2) ( b ) should be deleted and instead a reference to the buyer having a reasonable opportunity to compare the bulk with the sample should be inserted into s34 . |
| 4 | Of course there is a deterring-effect if one knows that one 's going to go not into a discussion where various points of view will be weighed and gradually a view may be achieved , but into a huge argument where tremendous battle lines will be drawn up and everyone who does n't fall in line will be hit on the head . |
| 5 | Indeed both women and men were so baptized and entered the people of God which was the church — in differentiation from the Jewish background in which only men were circumcised and fully a part of the religious people of Israel . |
| 6 | The building is being restored and recently a garderobe was found . |
| 7 | A muddy substratum is recommended and therefore a mixture of clay and peat is satisfactory . |
| 8 | Tilting back my head , I saw shrouds and regimental colours hanging like winter leaves when the flesh is gone and only a gauze of capillaries remains , scab of red , mothwing of gold . |
| 9 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 10 | Nobody was hurt and luckily a picture was taken of the offender who is being actively sought . |