Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Developers Lakewoods got the go-ahead almost a year ago but delayed starting work because of the recession . |
| 2 | Chief Supt Strange , once a likeable fusspot , seems to be going round the bend , and Morse got the answer wrong a whole reel before the end . |
| 3 | Happily he missed , tried the shot again a few minutes later , and middled it . |
| 4 | Quasi-syntactic ambiguity : The astronaut entered the atmosphere again a red pencil |
| 5 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
| 6 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 7 | His departure came the day after a " frank " meeting with President Corazon Aquino with whom his relations had become increasingly strained . |
| 8 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 9 | In fact , now you 've rumbled me , may I , would you mind if I postponed the coffee just a few moments more ? ’ |
| 10 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 11 | opened the door about a minute ago . |
| 12 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 13 | Collected the photos about an hour ago . |
| 14 | BANNED motorist Andy Lewis , 25 , mixed up his dates and hit the road again a month too early . |
| 15 | PhotoFinish was well received when it first hit the market under a year ago . |
| 16 | Erm because it crossed the Trent quite a number of times , and quite a number of trestle er wooden bridges were involved in that construction . |
| 17 | The House debated the issue about a year ago and reached the conclusion , on a free vote , that that issue was not the highest priority call on the NHS budget . |
| 18 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 19 | With a new lease of energy I reached the top only a minute or two after them . |
| 20 | So she eased the car forward a few inches more — but forgot to take off the lock . |
| 21 | I believe if you took a referendum today a majority would agree that television should be stopped forthwith . |
| 22 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 23 | There has been strong speculation that Pepsi Cola are putting up the money but David Murray , Rangers ' owner and chairman who bought the club exactly a year ago yesterday , is giving nothing away . |
| 24 | ‘ You left the surgery nearly an hour ago . |
| 25 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 26 | they had a barn just a little way from the house , you could see it but it |
| 27 | We had a secretary here a fortnight ago and said how good it 'd been . |
| 28 | Oh yes , yes you know where you work in the Derbyshire Peaks , I had a guide here a few weeks ago , and I kept it , it 's upstairs , and it actually put the English Channel going up there , the Peak District . |
| 29 | He succeeded his brother as viscount on 14 December 1812 , but held the title only a few weeks before his own death . |