Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum . |
| 2 | Son taught it to me , in case I ever got a Hungarian . |
| 3 | But when I learned to play guitar I just got a book of chords and learned them and just sort of thrashed around . |
| 4 | The dealer moved to another firm and stuffed the client with £12,000 worth of a speculative American stock which ultimately proved a dud . |
| 5 | They lived in a house in the Terrace , and eventually my father was sent to Ampleforth in Yorkshire , a Benedictine monastery which also ran a boarding school . |
| 6 | Unlike the large international headhunting firms , Young never sought to develop as much business as possible , preferring to maintain tight control of a specialist practice which also offered a form of management consultant-type counselling . |
| 7 | Dr Gerard Vaughan , a former health minister , was especially vocal in condemning the action , but others took the view that the ‘ informer ’ in the case had a duty to report an action which possibly constituted a crime against another human being ; |
| 8 | Its small size suggests that it was a so-called ‘ satellite ’ pyramid which probably played a part in the ritual entombment of the pharaoh , although the lack of remains found in satellite pyramids have made it difficult to determine their function . |
| 9 | There was , nevertheless , an unusually large crowd , including one or two golf journalists who rarely saw a golf course . |
| 10 | The immediacy of the job is obviously an attraction to Simmons , born in Merton , south London , and a pupil at Dulwich college who never visualised a career with the AA . |
| 11 | ‘ It probably had a lot to do with his job but he was a fella who always had a word for you , ’ said Mr Lavery . |
| 12 | Osaka Transport Authority operates a ‘ hit-money ’ system that rewards staff who display forbearance when attacked , like the station employee who recently asked a man kicking a broken vending machine to stop , only to be hit on the head . |
| 13 | ALTHOUGH LIVING IN WALLINGTON SHE ALREADY HAD A SENSE OF HER ROOTS IN WALES . |
| 14 | ‘ Instead of a rate for carrying oil throughout to Bedale we just got a rate for bringing it to Middlesbrough for trans-shipment to road , which was illogical to me . |
| 15 | To illustrate good practice we also included a passage from Jerome Bruner 's The Relevance of Education ( 1974 ) . |
| 16 | Amongst the younger generation the arrival of the book in the wake of Penguin 's successful defence met with an enthusiasm which rarely survived a thumbing of its pages . |
| 17 | Fire broke out in an old , litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished . |
| 18 | This latter was a secular convent which always had a lady of the Habsburg family as abbess . |
| 19 | Although by 1989 the height of the economic crisis had passed , the structural effects of the war and the US embargo left Nicaragua with severe internal shortages , drastically reduced production levels and exports which only covered a quarter of the import bill . |
| 20 | ‘ As a child I always wore a jet necklace and cross , ’ recalls Mabel McMillan . |
| 21 | Richard Gould had published a book Yiwara , foragers of the Australian desert which unwisely included a photograph of sacred objects , knowledge of which is restricted to initiated men . |
| 22 | great cricketer who only played a couple of times last season , was Dave . |
| 23 | John Cole who also wrote a memoir of Hester Mulso Chapone , included Leapor in his Popular Biography of Northamptonshire ( 1839 ) , along with Chapone , Mark Akenside , and William Lisle Bowles . |
| 24 | At the same instant , Petion hurled the machete at the nearest Secte Rouge guard who also carried a machete . |
| 25 | Never having run for public office does not daunt this ‘ can-do ’ folk hero who once sent a team of ex-commandos into Iran to rescue two of his employees being held hostage . |
| 26 | The parliaments of 1931 and 1935 contained an unprecedented number of groups and remnants , apart from the solid bloc of Conservatives who always constituted a majority . |
| 27 | My father , a Desert Rat , tells me that in the North African campaign you never asked a man with a shovel where he was going , so I let Nat go . |
| 28 | If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it , and the person who found it was supposed to live for ever . |
| 29 | Jacqui 's occupation had n't improved it ; she was n't the sort of girl who immediately revolutionized a place and gave it a woman 's touch ; she just spread her belongings over the widest possible area . |
| 30 | I want to remember the face of the girl who coldly shot a policeman in the line of his duty . ’ |