Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
2 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
3 | However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers . |
4 | And the nearly murdered baby , how was it , where was it , Liz wondered , and found herself involuntarily doing a head count of her own stepchildren and children : she could see Jonathan , Alan and Sally ; her younger daughter Stella was away in Florence studying Italian , for her A levels , and staying safely and respectably as paying guest with art-historical friends of Esther ; but where was her middle stepson , Aaron ? |
5 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
6 | Sitting at breakfast on the verandah of Bombay 's Sun'n'Sand hotel , some while after reading Philip Callahan 's Tuning in to Nature , I found myself quietly observing a highway of tiny , high speed ants as they took a specific path to and from their nest under the edge of the patio , gathering up enticing goodies from further down the flowerbed . |
7 | I found myself constantly making a connection between what new families were saying to me about what they found most helpful from a social worker and what I as a social worker find most helpful from a team leader . |
8 | So seriously , too , did I take myself in it , that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions — of a man , or a place , or a walk — in a manner largely founded on Jefferies ' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley 's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight 's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats , and later on by Ruskin , De Quincey , Pater , and Sir Thomas Browne … |
9 | Well , there was a silly ole cow workin' in the office an' when I went in there she give me a dirty look an' told me ter take a seat . |
10 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
11 | When we were asleep , it had ceased to matter , but when we ate it still remained a bore . |
12 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
13 | I never bothered much about Allie , and most of the time I forgot I even had a brother . |
14 | But he said he reckoned they probably shot a bit wide , and anyway the officers would see that they tried , and it was better to be shot by the other side rather than your own . |
15 | As the show opened they even enjoyed a beer with the first day crowds . |
16 | Some shepherds who observed one regularly using a boat to cross a river , and removed the boat , reduced the nightmare to wailing pitifully and threatening them , demanding the return of the boat . |
17 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |
18 | On the verge of tears , Mr Wolk went on television to appeal to people to refrain from taking to the streets , and urged them instead to keep a lit candle in their window . |
19 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |
20 | I could not see , then , how I might press on with this bantering ; in fact , I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and , pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to , excused myself , leaving my employer looking rather bemused . |
21 | Nobody wished me goodnight , as Zillah took me upstairs to find a bed for me . |
22 | Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set . |
23 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
24 | I thought I just had a voice . ’ |
25 | A few years ago this was only available in specialist nurseries , but I thought I recently caught a glimpse of it in Geoff Hamilton 's ornamental vegetable garden on the television , so I suppose it has come of age . |
26 | For the first time since she iced her Dad , Jazzbeaux felt she really had a purpose on this dull earth . |
27 | I knew she now had a boyfriend . |
28 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
29 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
30 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |