Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 2 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Say you got me to Ireland and dropped me off , then got shot down by a British night-fighter off the French coast on your way back . |
| 5 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 6 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 7 | He 'd met up with a marvellous girl in Munster , anyway ; then a fully consenting Hausfrau from Hamburg … and so it had gone on . |
| 8 | She 'd grown up into a beautiful fair girl , and every lad in the county had his eye on her , as Billy knew from all the women 's gossip . |
| 9 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 10 | But I 'm , but I 'm sure it 'd got up to a hundred and something pounds . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 13 | Mind , it was the surprise of me life to 'ear you 'd teamed up with a fly female pickpocket , I did n't know you was one of the lads . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
| 16 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The company 's shareholders got tangled up in a general bout of profit-taking that hit all electricity shares . |
| 19 | The upright against which he rested stretched up like a great squared pillar into the ceiling high overhead , white-painted , the simplicity of its design emphasised by the seven pictograms carved into the wood and picked out in gold leaf-the characters forming couplets with those on the matching upright . |
| 20 | The puissant alien walked crouched over in a permanent posture of attack so that the horns along its spine projected highest . |
| 21 | Whatever the world had done to the little wide-eyed innocent who got eaten up by a bad wolf in the big city , it had n't taught her much . |
| 22 | until I got fixed up with a private job |
| 23 | Betinna lay curled up like a long-haired cat on the sofa . |
| 24 | He heats each portion in a bowl of hot water kept topped up from a boiling kettle before making the wax balls , the names tightly sealed inside . |
| 25 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 26 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 27 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 28 | It felt strange — no , it felt right that we should all know each other , as it were automatically : we , who had gathered here for a preternatural purpose . |
| 29 | She had used only the top room of the mill which she had furnished simply with a small writing table and chair facing the North Sea , a telephone and her binoculars . |
| 30 | It had developed largely as a realistic response to a political environment shaped externally by the rules and conventions of public accountability and internally by the central position of doctors . |