Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [pron] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm he come in about that so we wrote a letter saying that I wo n't do the job for ninety pound , but I 'll stick to the original |
| 2 | And of course I er wirelessed the office headquarters in Edinburgh told them about this so they sent a mine sweeper out from Tobermory . |
| 3 | According to his own account , as soon as he was brought to Rome as a hostage in 167 B.C. he became a friend of the two surviving sons of Aemilius Paulus by sharing some books with them . |
| 4 | He secured his most spectacular coup in 1872 when he won a concession from the shah of Persia covering the exploitation of all industrial and mineral rights . |
| 5 | In Fig. 16.4 above we observed a switch from direct to indirect taxation since the late 1970s . |
| 6 | The Duke of Montrose ran into this difficulty in 1725 when he obtained a crown presentation for a minister named Smith to serve the parish of Cardross . |
| 7 | ‘ The idea came to me during September 1991 when I saw a pile of waste paper being loaded into a contractor 's vehicle at the back of 36 St Andrew Square . |
| 8 | Although the VP won local elections in February 1991 , there was evidence of increasing discontent within the party over Lini 's leadership , accentuated in May 1991 when he suffered a heart attack . |
| 9 | He became interested as a boy of six when he discovered a set living just a few hundred yards away from the wooden bungalow in which the family then lived . |
| 10 | From 1250 onwards he received a number of ad hoc commissions to act as a royal justice and was regularly commissioned to act as a gaol delivery justice at Newgate and elsewhere . |
| 11 | She shows me my fault , that ever I trusted a liar and thief . |
| 12 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 13 | Success came for Charles Tennant in 1798 when he patented a chlorine liquor bleaching agent and was made doubly secure in the following year with an improved agent in powder form . |
| 14 | Three years after giving all that up he had a heart attack . |
| 15 | Instead , she was wondering what kind of remedy Kate Adie used whenever she got a head-blocker , and whether she 'd ever had to read over livestock prices to what was probably a total early-morning audience of three men and a dog . |
| 16 | Mr Kinnock knew all along he walked a tightrope . |
| 17 | In the Shropshire parish of Myddle between 1541 and 1701 nearly everyone found a husband or wife within a 10-mile radius of his or her dwelling and most partners came from within the neighbourhood that was centred upon the market towns of Shrewsbury , Ellesmere and Wem ; only the gentry sought wives or husbands from a slightly wider area . |
| 18 | He first appears acting under Richard 's orders in February 1184 when he led a force which sacked Excideuil — a stroke directed against Aimar of Limoges , who was presumably hoping to profit from the quarrel between Henry I ] and his son . |
| 19 | Viv Richards has been rated the world 's number one batsman since 1976 when he scored a record 1,710 Test runs in the year . |
| 20 | Valerie taught languages in schools until 1964 when she became a Lecturer in the Department of Education at Keele University . |
| 21 | No that 's where it went a bit wobbly so I made a hook on it for a carriage . |
| 22 | However , a year or more later I got a note from Colonel Leslie Glass saying that in a report received from an officer dropped behind the Japanese lines there occurred the statement , ‘ ’ I think I ought to add that I owe my life to a little booklet entitled Rubbing Along in Burmese . ’ |
| 23 | Cut-price Then she used a consultant 's ‘ thank you ’ letter to back her cheeky scam — even hiring the Santa outfits at half-price for her ‘ good cause ’ . |
| 24 | He began fantasising and had to take avoiding action 81 when he took a corner too wide . |
| 25 | Do you know what Gary yesterday at about nine o'clock he fancied a pizza , he said that he fancied a pizza , er Aaron come on in , pizza and erm garlic bread to go with it , well I thought I 'm going in town so he 's got that for tonight now |
| 26 | The film was black at first then it turned a sort of brownish colour , getting lighter but still weird colours , browny yellow , till we could see it was water , a river or something , and its bank . |
| 27 | Earlier a trio by their fellow countryman Valen , Opus 5 in E Flat , seemed to derive much from Schoenbergian romanticism : intense and impassioned yet it lacked a variety of pace . |
| 28 | The identity badge and pass issued to Coleman in 1987 when he taught a course in audio and video surveillance at the National Intelligence Academy in Fort Lauderdale , Florida . |
| 29 | that 's fair enough I said a thing . |
| 30 | His break into showbusiness came in the 1930s when he joined a novelty act called Joe Boganni and the Crazy College Boys . |