Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 2 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 3 | And on this morning , of all mornings , James phoned at the crack of dawn and asked me to preside over a ridiculous Press party . |
| 4 | The patient 's requirement for frequent repetition of the Phosphorus led me to make up a 5ml dropper bottle as the stock bottle i.e. the LM granule dissolved in 5mls of water and alcohol instead of 100mls . |
| 5 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 6 | Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf . |
| 7 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 8 | I bet they asked them to fill in a form for it |
| 9 | SINGER Patty Smyth attacked two policeman after she caught them beating up a friend in New York . |
| 10 | Later we found them chatting over a game of Alma in the Railway Tavern . |
| 11 | The additional energy they enjoyed after following the diet for a few weeks helped them to take on a much more positive attitude towards life — I could sense a really happy attitude in the remarks on the questionnaires . |
| 12 | The keeper excelled himself to keep out an Elliott header , but he was stranded again in injury time when Loram fired in a precise 25yarder which went in off the post . |
| 13 | In seconds he found himself hovering over a group of them which swayed this way and that beneath him in the dark , not nice and firm like the dead branch set in his cage . |
| 14 | Twenty-five minutes later , as he climbed the steps of St Martin's-in-the-Field , he found himself offering up a little prayer , its sentiments not so very different from those of the carols this congregation would presently be singing . |
| 15 | Soon , he found himself standing over a young Dragoon who was lying on the ground . |
| 16 | The old stone walls closed about her , so that at times it seemed to be suffocatingly hot , and she found herself putting up a hand to her throat . |
| 17 | He found her walking along a path through the fields . |
| 18 | Lunch was set on the terrace , as he 'd promised , and Luce let him draw out a chair for her . |
| 19 | Another has been tested by P T Breuer ( 1991 ) , who used it to speed up a game playing program . |
| 20 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 21 | Lipman 's column in the May issue was fetchingly entitled : ‘ I found myself weeping over an economy-sized box of tampons ’ . |
| 22 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 23 | Rush , later to be carried off with what Mr Bonds termed a ‘ bad groin injury ’ , also had a shot turned aside by Flowers , who later flung himself to keep out a stinging shot by Allen . |
| 24 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 25 | She told me to hang on a bit , and then I was talking to this David Kendrew bloke — the one on the programme — the one Mum 's always on about . |
| 26 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 27 | So I opened this one with practised diffidence … and , if it brought neither emotional nor financial reward , it caused me to dash off an angry — ‘ Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — letter within the hour . |
| 28 | When our children say , as they all do , ‘ but my friends are all doing this ’ , parents invariably say , smartly , ‘ and if they told you to jump off a cliff , would you ? ’ |
| 29 | The police advised her to take out a summons against her neighbours . |
| 30 | You ca n't escape the noise in these thin little flats , so maybe he 's lying in bed , staring in the dark , listening to the personal stereo I told him fell off a lorry last Christmas , letting reggae drown the sound of grown-ups talking . |