Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] and [adv] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phoned the squadron at their base and immediately booked a flight to Halifax NS . |
| 2 | Claire offered her cheek and then planted a hard kiss on his . |
| 3 | The Jesuit missionaries were men dedicated to the reform of the native Church , but their very zeal and intolerance defeated their aim and permanently alienated a people justifiably proud of their own Christian tradition . |
| 4 | Mrs Sweeting said her daughter , a receptionist at County Hall , in Chelmsford , has never complained about her illness and always adopted a positive approach to life . |
| 5 | When she arrived at the airport she reached into her baggage and quickly made a phone call to Amsterdam . |
| 6 | Organisms that released spores when they were too young or too old would end up with fewer descendants than rivals that built up their strength and then released a massive number of spores when in the prime of life . |
| 7 | The Princess — looking very thin again — merely toyed with her food and hardly uttered a word during the hour-long trip . |
| 8 | After a bright and purposeful start , Liverpool lost their way and almost paid a heavy price . |
| 9 | Going out to the battlefields , Olid Edis wanted some mark of her identity and so got a badge ‘ NWM ’ which she put on a cap . |
| 10 | Or perhaps the DTI anticipated their wrong-doing and so planted a bug to record the conversation at which the agreement was struck . |
| 11 | We backed Frank Gray as his successor and even paid a record club fee for Nick Cusack . |
| 12 | Papin did not develop his discovery and never produced a full sized working engine . |
| 13 | ‘ I watched him working out his comedy and immediately recognized a considerable talent . |
| 14 | Specifically relevant to Eardwulf was adultery for , according to Alcuin , the king had dismissed his wife and publicly taken a concubine and Alcuin feared that this affront to God would soon cost him his throne.124 |
| 15 | And it was then , I believe , that his lordship said as he looked down again into his volume and awkwardly fingered an entry : ‘ These errors may be trivial in themselves , Stevens , but you must yourself realize their larger significance . |
| 16 | He stood very still for a moment and then lifted his hand and gently traced a line across her swollen cheek . |
| 17 | He burned his letters and even destroyed a picture of the doctor 's dead father . |
| 18 | Although he was strictly fair in his reports and seldom expressed a particular preference , it is clear that one of the Colonel 's favourite restaurants was the Savoy . |