Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pinned old movie stills to the black beams so that the guests could play at guessing what they were from and gazed for too long at a film-still of Peter Finch and a male lover , pondering the nature of sexual passion . |
| 2 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 3 | That came across very strongly at a UNEP conference in Nairobi in 1989 on phasing out CFCs . |
| 4 | The attack happened at about 8.45am at a school in Camberwell , South-east London . |
| 5 | He even acted at least twice as an official British diplomat , once at the behest of George , second Earl Spencer [ q.v. ] , the greatest book collector of his time and a primary customer of Edwards . |
| 6 | If a fella walked in here now with a bloody gun I 'd |
| 7 | Skaller smiled bitterly : surely he sentenced , had to sentence those who were dragged before him because of this love , for the sake of this same love with which he himself once loved — of which he knew nothing more today — which he had forgotten — or which he thought of yet only as an aberration of his youth . |
| 8 | Saw at once how like a machine it was . |
| 9 | It was barely three months after her arrival in the village when her life began to pitch over from an even keel , and it remained from then onwards at a pitched-over angle . |