Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely , they followed a route now reduced : like Kipling 's road through the woods , ‘ weather and rain have undone it again and now we shall never know there was once a road through the woods . ’ |
| 2 | Arguments about the quality of particular animals in a payment scarcely arose when the payment was in a standardized currency : no one asked , ‘ Well now , which of these dinars do you promise me ? ’ |
| 3 | A late stimulus for the evolution of distinctive mammals was the Pleistocene Ice Age , although a variety also became extinct at this time . |
| 4 | A Squadron certainly did keep up the pressure and achieved the desired result , mining and ambushing merrily . |
| 5 | The issue of standards of evidence arises now because of a case just argued before the US Supreme Court over whether data do or do not support the allegation that a drug called Bendectin , once widely prescribed to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women , causes limb deformities in newborn babies . |
| 6 | Only that , he says would ensure that such disputes over legal procedure were sorted out before a case ever went to trial . |
| 7 | From the first moments , when my brothers and I stood there incredulous as Blyth screamed and jumped and tugged at his leg , to the tearful farewell of Blyth 's parents and Diggs taking statements ( a bit even appeared in the Inverness Courier which was picked up for its curiosity value by a couple of the Fleet Street rags ) , not one person even suggested that it might have been anything other than a tragic and slightly macabre accident . |
| 8 | Things seem to be a bit more relaxed here compared with Sian , where we were shepherded around with great ceremony , had to make formal speeches etc. , and attracted crowds of astonished bystanders whenever we appeared in public . |
| 9 | Got through quite a bit yesterday did n't we ? |
| 10 | They left it a bit late did n't they |
| 11 | Give it away a bit really did n't he ? |
| 12 | Cos we had Linekars , course they 've gone out of business , but when he came , when the boss came to this one he reckoned one of these was a bit out did n't he ? |
| 13 | ‘ The effect of looking a bit deeper made more difference than anyone thought , ’ summarises Peter Frey , a psychologist at North-Western University who has written the basic text in the field , Chess Skill In Man and Machine ( Springer-Verlag 1977 ) . |
| 14 | And you said you was feeling a bit better did n't you ? |
| 15 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 16 | The election of a successor eventually took place in February 1752 , when two candidates presented themselves , the Rev. William Jackson and the Rev. John Chorley Knowles . |
| 17 | Workhouse visiting committees composed of middle class ladies tried to place unmarried mothers as domestic servants and increasingly strove to keep mother and child together , but , as Mrs Hardie of the Manchester Ladies ' Health Society commented , their task was difficult : a mistress usually feared the presence of a young woman of immoral character in her family . |
| 18 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 19 | A FOOTBALLER deliberately struck an opponent in the face with his elbow , shattering his cheekbone and fracturing his eye socket during a match , a court heard yesterday . |
| 20 | A FOOTBALLER deliberately struck an opponent in the face with his elbow , shattering his cheekbone and fracturing his eye socket during a match , a court heard yesterday . |
| 21 | Ballysillan Leisure Centre has had to spend over £2 , out of a budget already pared to the bone repairing windows smashed in a spate of weekend attacks over the past month . |
| 22 | it fell by a thread then hobbled off , |
| 23 | A gang also razed the village of Gorsky , in the west of the Ferghana region . |
| 24 | Statutory town planning of a kind therefore got under way after the hiatus of war , with only limited experience to guide it , as summarized by Adshead ( 1923 ) . |
| 25 | A slogan above said ominously : ‘ My mother killed my last boyfriend . ’ |
| 26 | Modrow entitled his proposals " For Germany , united fatherland " , using a slogan often chanted by East German demonstrators . |
| 27 | Cliftonville , with a defence well marshalled by Marty Tabb , a strong running mid-field and dangerous strikers just about deserved to win this one and top the group . |
| 28 | Norman Crawford 's men have a point advantage , a defence superbly marshalled by Stephen Martin and which has conceded just six goals in 17 games , and an attack led by the prolific Kenny Morris . |
| 29 | or about five minutes earlier on the motorway and they drove over a part of the barrier , and they got a blow out did n't they ? |
| 30 | It had long sleeves ; a tightness above imprisoned her neck with its white linen collar . |