Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 2 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 3 | Over Adam 's shoulder , she watched as the couple moved to stand together in a quiet corner , deeply engrossed in each other . |
| 4 | Half of these mothers said they smacked only in anger ; the remainder used smacking deliberately as a disciplinary technique . |
| 5 | Caspar was slowing down , his eyes on a dip towards their left , where the road seemed to fall away into a natural valley . |
| 6 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 7 | At first glance , the head seemed to consist solely of a long nose protruding from a tangle of hair , thereby resembling the countenance of a maned vole , though considerably larger in size . |
| 8 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 9 | The suburban road , narrow and deserted , seemed to stretch onwards towards a narrow cone of light that never enlarged , never diminished . |
| 10 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I moved out , came to live here in a rented house I ca n't really afford , Susan sold the flat , which seemed a bit more than a symbolic act , I continued to love her and miss her , I tried to understand what she felt and hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through so that we could be together again . |
| 12 | As Ryker came careering into the kitchen , Julie threw back the cellar hatch and came hurtling forth like a maddened trap-door spider , brandishing the hammer . |
| 13 | She sank down on to the bed and glanced at the writing pad that she 'd tossed there after a brief effort to write to Arnie . |
| 14 | BRITAIN Rugby League international winger Martin Offiah prepared to return home with a serious shoulder injury yesterday , admitting that he was unlikely to play club rugby in Australia again . |
| 15 | BRITAIN Rugby League international winger Martin Offiah prepared to return home with a serious shoulder injury yesterday he admitting that he was unlikely to play club rugby in Australia again . |
| 16 | He seemed to have let out sufficient steam and resentment for the moment and turned to flirt obligingly with a middle-aged woman who touched his arm in pleased anticipation . |
| 17 | Next moment every head turned to gaze skywards as a brilliant red star flared into life high above Bethlehem House . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the graph on page 44 shows that homelessness has become an ever-increasing feature of the Tory years , Homelessness began to hit home in a big way when the property-owning democracy started suffering at the hands of the repo-man . |
| 19 | Furthermore , in November 1970 , following the ‘ Davignon Report ’ , the foreign ministers of the Six began to meet together in a European Political Co-operation body . |
| 20 | Britain began to slip badly as a competitive producer of films , and the national market was increasingly ceded to imports from France and America . |
| 21 | We began flying together in a Raven flew-wing microlight that we owned , and spent two very happy years flying around Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire in her . |
| 22 | He began to do so with a desperate vigour . |
| 23 | He began to cry fitfully with a keening sound . |
| 24 | ITALIANS began voting yesterday in a general election billed as one of the most decisive for decades . |
| 25 | He strode to the counter and began talking earnestly with a burly man dressed in white house-painter 's overalls . |
| 26 | At eight he began working part-time on a local farm , and three years later left school to go there full-time . |
| 27 | The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education , which represents staff in both sectors , last night rejected an improved offer for further education staff and decided to go ahead with a one-day strike tommorrow and to begin boycotts of marking and examination setting . |
| 28 | By then , such gestures were not enough to placate the civil rights supporters who decided to go ahead with a proposed march through Armagh City on 30 November . |
| 29 | His red Renault 9 , which he bought just the week before , was seen by truck driver Mr Burrige to indicate as it slowed to turn right from a central refuge . |
| 30 | Bennett raced away down the right , cut inside and crossed to Ventham who managed to shoot home from a narrow angle . |