Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was doing a little more manipulation of the bones before the plaster set , she got ready an injection of antibiotic and he took it from her with a nod of approval . |
| 2 | Belinda risked a cautious glance at him , but met only an unreadable profile . |
| 3 | But the bulk of it was done by way of the tutorial , a weekly session in which the pupil read aloud an essay of some three thousand words to his tutor and they then discussed it . |
| 4 | Open champion Faldo threaded together an immaculate last round of 67 , including four birdies and not a dropped shot , to finish joint second with three others on 281 . |
| 5 | Some of his achievements are cheered by all , or nearly all : the way in which he stitched together an international coalition against Saddam Hussein ; the way he managed to use the United Nations to prosecute American policy ; his courage . |
| 6 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 7 | They found only an empty shop when they turned up at Star Cast Promotions , Inner London Crown Court heard . |
| 8 | She closed her eyes , desperately trying to find the anger which had protected her from him so far , but found only an overwhelming longing to simply lose herself in his arms . |
| 9 | The zip gaped open an inch at his waist , which was cinched in far too tightly by a fake crocodile belt . |
| 10 | Marc wore a non-commital expression , and as soon as they were seated he reached inside an inner pocket and drew forth an envelope . |
| 11 | IDEAL HOME 's Assistant editor Helen Barnett spent a day relaxing at Henlow Grange Health Farm in Bedfordshire where she tried both an aromatherapy and a reflexology massage . |
| 12 | Yusupov had prepared an unusual opening variation : taking only six minutes over the first 14 moves , while Karpov used almost an hour . |
| 13 | One final question seems pertinent : What would the response have been had Mr Brettell 's offence involved instead an undercover policewoman ? |
| 14 | She tried again an hour later with the same result . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union proposed instead an agreement on consultations on Maltese security , which would not involve the establishment of a base and would include Soviet recognition of Malta 's status as a neutral country pursuing a policy of non-alignment . |
| 16 | Actor and acted-upon were either human ( e.g. , a girl , a milkman ) , animal ( e.g. a cow , a horse ) or inanimate ( e.g. a bicycle , a ball ) and the depicted action involved either an actor and acted-upon of the same class ( e.g. two humans ) or a different class ( e.g. a human and an animal ) . |
| 17 | But that broke the spell , of course , and the lovely fairy tree became just an ordinary baby fir . |
| 18 | As seen in the preceding chapter , the struggle between Jew and Arab for Palestine became largely an inter-statal one from 1945 onwards . |
| 19 | Then the door creaked open an inch or two . |
| 20 | It seemed rather an odd thing to do , but perfectly in tune with the occasion . |
| 21 | It seemed rather an historic moment , but I put the thought aside ; one must not get sentimental , and everything had been done properly , had been left in order and as it should be . |
| 22 | Boxing Day seemed rather an anti-climax . |
| 23 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
| 24 | He alleged that when he asked Scott about the planning , he received only an off-hand reply . |
| 25 | Although he sailed over with King George , as some twenty-five years previously he had accompanied the Prince of Orange on his voyage to claim the crown , he received only an annuity of £400 from the new monarch , was soon deep in debt again , and ended his days in a debtor 's prison . |
| 26 | Opened in 1846 this section had been early superseded and closed and in the time of Mr Mester 's childhood comprised only an overgrown formation . |
| 27 | It meanwhile was still being printed letterpress and seemed more an arts magazine than a product of any new movement , and put together by amateurs with leather arm-patches on their tweed jackets . |
| 28 | There were lots of dealers there and lots of dope going around and David , to some extent anyway , seemed slightly an outsider , being very quiet and just arranging the gigs , but he was never really a part of what was going on . |
| 29 | It assumed also an absence of political interference . |
| 30 | Although the journey from Ludlow , accomplished in record time , had been arduous in the extreme for one of his years , the yearned-for reunion with his family seemed now an anti-climax . |