Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered a night by the river when daylight faded , darkness fell and the moon rose at once with a new light and I had thought I understood everything and that everything was good . |
| 2 | For he moved at once to a post-natal , ecological sorting wherein individual adaptive variants are retained , while the maladaptive are eliminated in the Malthusian crush of population . |
| 3 | and it about five minutes , five or ten minutes before we left off , actually been doing a great , getting a machine in Jack , we dropped in there for a cup of tea and er I goes in |
| 4 | Now — he came in there with a letter . ’ |
| 5 | GEORGE BELL drove in the last of three runs in the eighth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays came from behind for a 4-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in the SkyDome on Saturday and reached the American League championship series against the Oakland Athletics . |
| 6 | McCluskey , a summer recruit from Portadown , scored two tries as Instonians came from behind for a comfortable win . |
| 7 | The sentiment backfired at once with a sharp reminder of the hopelessness of her own dreams . |
| 8 | Mary 's confirmation of her intended marriage reached Coleridge just before Christmas , and he replied at once in a letter which was his brave and gentle farewell . |
| 9 | The inquest opened at 2.45pm in a small court in Dukes Street . |
| 10 | He withdrew at once to a gracious distance , not to disturb in any way the privacy and composure of the next contender , and his two young squires , well trained to be equally unobtrusive in attendance , drew in silently at either shoulder . |
| 11 | Henri returned from inside with a bottle of Clairin and two mugs . |
| 12 | John Major 's announcement — which left him obviously shaken — was the culmination of a day of behind-the-scenes constitutional drama which began at 10am with a crisis meeting of the Government 's top ministers . |
| 13 | On October 13th 1933 , railcoach 200 was seen in St. Annes Square for the first time , when it operated from there on a private hire to Fleetwood . |
| 14 | Even as her mother watched , a fourth man swooped from nowhere like a bird of prey and snatched the girl into his arms . |
| 15 | ‘ City of Truro ’ was in light steam for the last time on the WSR as a static exhibit but upstaged for once by a host of traction and ploughing engines , vintage vehicles and other displays ! |
| 16 | The cash that buys the unwanted computed tomographic scanner , or furnishes the nice new empty waiting room , on the other hand , is money lost for ever from an already inadequate central pool . |
| 17 | Well you could of done really , I mean you could of fucking rang in , rang in here on a Friday and |
| 18 | A Coventry couple with two children : she has never had a paid job , he worked until recently in a Birmingham car factory where his last take-home pay was £65 . |
| 19 | Robert Sheldrake called in here with a proposition . ’ |
| 20 | And I started from there as a forester . |
| 21 | In the light and shifty winds which Conner enjoys , because they give him ‘ leverage on the opposition ’ , Stars & Stripes came from behind on the third leg to gain 65 seconds on Koch 's America to take the lead which Conner clung to tenaciously for a 1min 56sec victory . |
| 22 | But that was that was quite a good school , went through there via a Mr , he was a very nice teacher , very efficient , and he did n't believe in the cane , he did n't . |
| 23 | Yeah , erm when we went in there for a few times used to get headaches and that . |
| 24 | went in there with a twenty cigarette box erm two twenty cigarette boxes yeah ? like when you see cigarette and they pull out their fag , have you got a cigarette and hold out the box forty two cigarettes . |
| 25 | He went from there to a café called Café des Beaux Arts , decorated inside with rather dismal and bad frescoes . |
| 26 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 27 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |
| 28 | However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something . |
| 29 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
| 30 | The Holy Land , in Jesus 's time , was literally swarming with different religions , different sects and cults , a great number of them imported from abroad as a result of the Roman occupation . |