Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 2 | I wondered if you ever heard of such a thing ? |
| 3 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 4 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 5 | In the first half of 1989 the unemployment rate reportedly fell by half a percentage point . |
| 6 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 7 | Companion never lost through many a league , |
| 8 | I recently listened to such a man curse the government for doing nothing to help his game . |