Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That made me feel a bit of an outsider . |
2 | That made me feel a bit better , so I tottered to the top of the hill and stared bleakly around , in the equally bleak daylight . |
3 | 1926–27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers . |
4 | This led him to write a book which he called A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying , Shewing the Unreasonableness of Prescribing to Other Men 's Faith and the Iniquity of Persecuting Different Opinions . |
5 | This led us to test a model in which cells of both subsets died , but in which cells were also allowed to revert from the CD45R0 to CD45RA phenotype without cell division . |
6 | This led us to identify a number of key themes in the contemporary literature concerning what the Chicago School called the biotic order . |
7 | Searching for fossils on Fitzwilliam 's estates at Castor in 1821 , he discovered a large tessellated Roman pavement ; this encouraged him to conduct a series of excavations , unusually systematic for their time , which continued until 1827 . |
8 | On our return to Abergynolwyn we had a half hour wait to allow the Talyllyn 's vintage train to pass through and this allowed us to get a snack in the refreshment room . |
9 | This prompted him to contact a business acquaintance of his in the Shetlands who kindly offered to enquire about DZ642 . |
10 | It is just that it could have been more meaningful and less unpleasant had it felt a touch more like a pilgrimage than a harsh , faceless drive for productivity . |
11 | A planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1984 allowed us to assemble a group of consultants and an architect to consider integrating these elements . |
12 | Oh you 're lucky had you had a row ? |
13 | Varley 's business success was soon eclipsed by his evangelistic preaching ; his remarkable rapport with the working poor led him to establish a church for his converts . |
14 | It illustrates the pyramiding effect of interbank lending which means that no single customer or bank can be sure of where credit , i.e. deposits loaned , it extends will end up ( Shell 's deposit was loaned by Barclays to Lloyds and the latter used it to grant a loan to BP ) . |
15 | The whole squad was eager because they all thought they had a chance of being involved . |
16 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
17 | Her first encounter with Medau at a rally given by Molly at Reigate in 1958 determined her to become a teacher . |
18 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
19 | When the NI first began it had a series called Myth Exploders which challenged the popular misconceptions about the Third World and our relationship with it . |
20 | I first discovered I had a breech baby at 30 weeks and by 36 weeks it was obvious she had a mind of her own and was going to stay that way . |
21 | with an unbeaten eighty one said it means a lot to me to win here against this team . |
22 | And did they do any Did they do a trade comparable to the Cooperative ? |
23 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
24 | So you 've got nine plus four Did we do a sample all day ? |
25 | Stratus Computer Inc said it opened a Unix Porting and Technical Center in Dublin , Ireland , for customers and applications software developers outside North America . |