Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for . |
| 2 | Widmark had recently joined John Ford 's repertory company and so Wayne , who was producing and directing as well as starring as Davy Crockett , was delighted when Widmark accepted the role of Jim Dowie — so much so that he took an ad in the Hollywood Reporter reading ‘ Welcome aboard , Dick . ’ |
| 3 | She did n't know what she had meant , only that she felt an uncontrollable urge to thwart him . |
| 4 | She could n't remember now how long he had held her imprisoned , only that it seemed an eternity of immeasurable time . |
| 5 | This seems to have sobered him somewhat and he became an assistant in A. W. H. Kolbe 's laboratory in Marburg , but his contract was not renewed . |
| 6 | All the same , it was an unusual situation they were in and they wanted an answer , said Phil Jordan to John Coffin on the telephone . |
| 7 | I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio . |
| 8 | a lovely cottage , thatched roof cottage they lived in and it had an apple tree in the front , and a pear tree down the back , and all fruit trees . |
| 9 | The existence of a second decaying solution , which would occur on its own only if one had an initially large disturbance of just the right configuration , is irrelevant . ) |
| 10 | oh yes , but not in the ordinary er there was a huge place , where you could put tables all round the tables , you see , and , and er it was a and er I liked it , I , when they were busy , you see , I used to , especially if they had an order for these hundreds of cups of tea , er , you see , I used to go down and give a hand then , I used to like it , you see , somebody would give a shout and I would come down from the office and and left them anyway and then er I heard of this job . |
| 11 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 12 | Waiting impatiently while he found an International Dialling Code leaflet , Gina tapped her fingers in a nervous tattoo against the wall , her previous euphoria shattered by the welcome but unexpected news . |
| 13 | She let the men dressed in yellow safety hats and donkey jackets in after they showed an apparent ID card . |
| 14 | Craig McLachlan could be very easily dismissed as just another soap star turned muso , but Craig was playing guitar in bands long before he became an actor . |
| 15 | Prior Robert was conscious of his shadow only when he had an errand for him to run , or need of his obsequious presence to restore a balance when someone had managed to scar the priorial dignity . |
| 16 | At Tain the ancient stones in the graveyard above the railway line looked in as I ate an apple bought in Ness in Lewis that had come from Spain . |
| 17 | Sir Henry Bessemer suffered so badly that he designed an anti-seasick steamer whose saloon was supposed to stay on an even keel even if the ship rolled . |
| 18 | And er wash the cups and And he used to have to go running er down with messages down to or down to the head office rather that we had an office in where where our fitting shop was where there was a draughtsman 's office . |
| 19 | Like Lotus 1-2-3 and SuperCalc , Quattro Pro 's printer support is very good — although having to tell all these programs individually that I had an HP LaserJet IIIsi made me realize how easy it is telling Windows just the once for all your applications . |
| 20 | The most astonishing aspect of the case was not that she had an understandable desire to disport herself in space , but that under the law as it stands a major general had to offer her an abject apology for the recruiting sergeant showing a welcome piece of common sense . |
| 21 | By this time , Malc 's Gran was living with his parents and the rift between him and Pop was too great to overcome , so we lived separately until we found an over-priced flat in a none too salubrious area of Sheffield . |
| 22 | ‘ Thanks to Mrs Ashley we employed more people , the weavers were paid overtime and we enjoyed an Indian summer for a good few years . |
| 23 | Most groups form after a shared devotion to the works of some particular group or an affinity for a particular style-sound-wash , but Guy ( keyboards ) , Fraggle ( guitar ) , Carl ( bass ) , Henry ( drums ) and Fil ( vocals ) hatched their idea whilst squatting a disused dole office in Peckham , South London , just because they had an attitude in common . |
| 24 | How she hated calling him that , not just because she had an American 's disdain for such outdated nonsense but because Nicolo obviously relished the title . |
| 25 | Retail Week the other day gave a flavour of the debate elsewhere when it published an editorial declaring that it was ‘ Time for honesty on Sunday trading ’ . |
| 26 | Rather than expand the PSW to hold such a set of miscellaneous registers , we can replace them by an array of control registers , just as we introduced an array of accumulators . |
| 27 | Just as he maintained an interest in psychological theories of childhood , such as those of Iovetz-Tereshchenko , so he continued to take an interest in some of the anthropological material which came his way . |
| 28 | He reached her just as she made an attempt to stand , and caught hold of her upper arms . |
| 29 | On his return he puzzled me by behaving exactly as I expected an S.S.O. to behave . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's exactly as I imagined an old family home , ’ Sir Henry said . |