Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 's , it 's failed at the moment , but as , you know , if you 've seen on television , or read a paper lately , you know , you 've got ten days to go |
| 2 | Newcastle had the best of the chances or looked a shade more dangerous in front of goal , but a draw was the right result . |
| 3 | Even if a historian has expressed an idea or answered a question exceptionally well , it is still better in the main to put the same point into your own words . |
| 4 | Button up shirt & secure tie & put a tiepin just above where jacket or waistcoat lapels meet . |
| 5 | It is hard to think of any comparable figure in medieval English history who lived so long , travelled so widely , or had a career so diverse and adventurous . |
| 6 | Having thundered 116 from 109 balls against West Indies last year , he had a ball against the Pakistanis , threatening a twist to a predictable tale with 74 off 44 balls in a one day warm-up that became a tad too hot to handle . |
| 7 | The apology followed that made a year earlier to South Korea for Japan 's colonial subjugation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945 . |
| 8 | A survey conducted in the United States in 1981 revealed that directors considered the feature that made a company most attractive as a take-over target was that it had ‘ excellent management ’ and the majority of respondents regarded management inefficiency as something which would actually put them off . |
| 9 | We could clean swiftly and efficiently by now , and knew the special little ways that made a lavatory really white , or a tiled floor that bit more gleaming . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's the matter with him ? ’ demanded Perdita , who was busy trimming the hairy fetlocks of a gelding that resembled a Clydesdale more than a polo pony . |
| 11 | CRUNCHED : Gilbey 's Montego ( left ) and the cameraman 's Golf after the head-on crash that followed a chase yesterday |
| 12 | Levels of chlorine monoxide , a particularly destructive compound of ozone-degrading chlorine , together with colder atmospheric temperatures that persisted a month longer than last year , pushed ozone levels down by as much as 20 per cent in some Arctic areas . |
| 13 | I mean that looked a write-off so I do n't know |
| 14 | As time has progressed I have produced a bit more and I have been prepared to show things that went a bit further back ; I have extended the oeuvre at both ends . |
| 15 | Without actually opening it , which would have been to examine the beast physiologically , Hull inferred numerous relationships between levels of motivation ( drive ) and the extent of learning ( habit strength ) that rendered a response more or less probable . |
| 16 | The new government brought in to replace the one that resigned a month ago turns out to be little more than a royal-family reshuffle . |
| 17 | She said nothing , but only arched back against the soft leather , lost in the tantalising , agonising pleasure of his hands — a pleasure that lit a fire deep inside her , but did nothing to quench it . |
| 18 | We looked in the area of the fault and indeed , there was one needle that had a latch so stiff that it could n't open freely and also got stuck when you pushed it right back . |
| 19 | Several years previously a fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , J. J. Thomson , had demonstrated the existence of a particle of matter , called the electron , that had a mass less than one thousandth of that of the lightest atom . |
| 20 | Or at least , it is as if the Lugbara had read the great French social philosopher 's work and devised a religion faithfully mirroring their social structure . |
| 21 | HE was at his best and became a farmer once more . |
| 22 | The final realization of the New Depression , brought quietly into the world in May 1979 , with the unsuspecting British electorate as midwife and the Thatcher government as proud foster-parent ( the natural parents are holed up even now in the boardrooms of the multi-national corporations ) , coincided with rumblings of some significance from the separate continental plates of the fashion world : after a decade in the doldrums ‘ fashion ’ was born again and became a word once more in general use . |
| 23 | As a skilled shipwright he was invited by the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629 to settle in New England , and became a freeman there in 1631 . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've quit , ’ said Hank absently , and realized a second too late what he had said . |
| 25 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 26 | A letter to Peter Davall Esqr. in the Temple , London , written 1753 and read a year later , points out that seeds exhibited at the Society did not fit the description of a particular species of Bauhinia . |
| 27 | He gathered all the renegade magicians together and revealed a plan as mad as it was bold . |
| 28 | The two children were of equal height and made a pair pretty enough for a Victorian painting , the boy dark and vivid , the girl fair and withdrawn . |
| 29 | She had not realised that some of the horses had been ‘ jazzed up ’ and made a bit more fearful or anxious , so that the horse had extended its top lip through tension . |
| 30 | ‘ The FA should have been brave and made a decision either to eliminate Peterborough or allow the 9-1 result to stand . |