Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 2 | Much more closely associated with the state than was the case in the Christian churches that owed their allegiance to Rome , Russian Orthodoxy helped to promote both a more communitarian form of politics and a feeling that Russians were a ‘ special people ’ with a particular destiny to fulfil in terms of world civilisation . |
| 3 | With the partial exception of Durrell , however , none of the writers mentioned carried forward an energy for experiment into a later age by working in Britain . |
| 4 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 5 | He was always impressed with Leonard 's room , which he found to resemble more a study than a youth 's bedroom — already the style was evident . |
| 6 | I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink . |
| 7 | Last year , health scientists at government agencies tried to put together a paper outlining the state-of-the art of identifying possible carcinogenic substances . |
| 8 | Damory was present at Lancaster 's assembly at Sherburn , Yorkshire , in June 1321 , when the earl tried to put together a coalition against Despenser and his father . |
| 9 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 10 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
| 11 | Martin then remembered some chocolates he 'd received anonymously a month earlier . |
| 12 | He had a clear picture of a sad and lonely man , deeply concerned about his health and dwelling on a future which seemed to promise only a fairly rapid decline into senility . |
| 13 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 14 | ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town . |
| 15 | I was about to respond that she 'd added quite a lot to the letters , but Masha came out of the bathroom . |
| 16 | But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not |
| 17 | But it was that 's what it that 's where er you know , there was he had been quite successful in this lawsuit you know , he 'd made quite a bit of money . |
| 18 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 19 | And er we 'd done quite a l we 'd he 'd refurnished his who Th You know they got the contract to furnish the whole house and it was beautiful you know . |
| 20 | Anger was n't something he 'd felt even a flicker of . |
| 21 | Events in Vietnam , in many ways comparable although obviously complicated by the factor of French colonialism , were of infinitely less interest and for the moment seemed to require only a definition of attitudes rather than acts of policy . |
| 22 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 23 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 24 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 25 | The day had been warm , and since it was n't , he decided , an occasion for dressing , he settled for a light linen suit which he 'd worn rather a lot ten years ago in New Zealand . |
| 26 | Passing a street-light came to seem quite an event ; one watched their brave little sulphurous smudges receding with a feeling akin to despair , as if we might never find another . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 28 | Come to think of it , he 'd seemed rather a decent chap , someone it might be worth getting to know . |
| 29 | Riding a numerical surge of dissent , provincial abolitionism came to distrust even an antislavery politics practised with any ease within the confines of Westminster and Whitehall . |
| 30 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |