Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 2 | A TEAM of young archaeologists were disappointed when a dig in Darlington revealed nothing more than a Victorian cellar . |
| 3 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |
| 4 | His response was predicated on the idea that he was dealing with an IRA insurrection when he was actually faced with a group of unarmed demonstrators who posed nothing more than a difficult public order problem . |
| 5 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 6 | Constanza found him uncouth and a bore — that was one of the things being with Simon did to one — she broke it off and went to parties again . |
| 7 | She found it strange and a trifle exciting to sit at the cafe tables , and watch Wehrmacht , Luftwaffe and Nazi naval personnel walking in the leafy boulevards . |
| 8 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
| 9 | Until the 1930s a ruling was in force which forbade anyone other than a French citizen from starting a newspaper . |
| 10 | They told us three and a half , but there again a lot of rescue people do cut the ages of their dog , but , but , our , our two vets agreed he was around three and a half , between three and a half and four , look at his teeth and his coat and his bones . |
| 11 | An owl-hoot startled them all and a soldier cursed as the bird sailed low over their heads , plunging in the grass to seize some little creature which squirmed in its death agonies . |
| 12 | when I lost my six and a half stone |
| 13 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 14 | The Greek ideal as founded by Winckelmann implied something more than a purely scholarly pursuit . |
| 15 | They called him Rubberneck because a good third of his height was neck . |
| 16 | Matthew Hunt converted a penalty after five minutes ; then Fowler netted his first after a move started by Nikki Harman . |
| 17 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 18 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
| 19 | It was a last-minute dash that took him five and a half hours to reach Heathrow Airport . |
| 20 | It took him two and a half days to reach Edinburgh . |
| 21 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 22 | It took her less than a minute to pull on her clothes and a couple more to dress the still sleeping Kirsty . |
| 23 | The Special Branch detective was asked whether he thought it probable that a more junior officer in the social welfare wing would call such a meeting and at it preside over ones of much more senior rank from the military wing . |
| 24 | He thought it scandalous that a new type of higher education had emerged ‘ as a result of piecemeal decisions , often ill-prepared , and taken in conditions of near total secrecy , and which is simply not geared to meeting the country 's most pressing requirements ’ . |
| 25 | I thought it likely that an unruly argument would develop between them , with Syl insisting that no woman could get enough admiration and Lili denying it . |
| 26 | It took us One and a half hours to clean up , but my early start gave us plenty of time . |
| 27 | It took us more than an hour to make our way down those 47 double flights of metal stairs , but we were young and healthy and we enjoyed steins of lager when we finally reached a ground level bar . |
| 28 | I it took us three and a half hours coming back from Swansea . |
| 29 | Yeah we 've erm they offered us four and a half percent . |
| 30 | When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss . |