Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got through quite a few bits and pieces that was |
| 2 | At first the Palace asked for just a thousand exclusive ties to be made . |
| 3 | And I read for about an hour . |
| 4 | Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective . |
| 5 | It also made for quite a wet ride as the Seayak ‘ bobbed ’ downwards . |
| 6 | He hummed and hawed for quite a while about it , but in the end I asked him if you were getting any visitors , and if not , I said , must n't you be feeling pretty lonely , and that did it . |
| 7 | Yet I tried and tried for over a week thinking I ought to for his sake . |
| 8 | He fled with just an ornament . |
| 9 | THOSE GUITARS have been pretty quiet since October last year , when the lackluster ‘ All Over My Face ’ sank with scarcely a ripple . |
| 10 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 11 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 12 | Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago . |
| 13 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 14 | Goosebumps coarsened his sleek skin , and he tried to still a trembling in his limbs . |
| 15 | Large libraries were just as likely as small ones to want more training officers ' time , even though they were far more likely to employ a designated training officer ( or someone who devoted at least a quarter of their time to training ) . |
| 16 | THE North American arm of BMW , the German motor manufacturer , announced yesterday that sales in March rose by nearly a fifth from the same month last year to 5,500 cars . |
| 17 | Russell estimated the population of England at just over 21 million in 1377 , and suggested that it rose by nearly a million between then and 1545 . |
| 18 | Last year it made a FFr10m ( $1.9m ) net profit on sales of FFr175m , and the number of visitors rose by almost a third , to 1.3m . |
| 19 | But the illness lingered for over a year , and in the end the doctor decided that she must be suffering from depression . |
| 20 | The images lingered for only a brief time before changing , the Retreat demolished in the storm of stones and a new structure raised in the whirl : the Tower of the Tabula Rasa . |
| 21 | In fact , Royal Oak equalised after only a minute when Finch 's cross came to Clinton Ford who scored with a snap shot . |
| 22 | After what seemed like only a doze she woke to daylight , the wind driving hail against the window with a force which threatened to break it . |
| 23 | Teesside counsellor Cricket Kemp tells of a couple who suffered from just a simple misunderstanding . |
| 24 | The Celts has been established for centuries before the Romans came in 60BC an built a military camp . |
| 25 | The High Court in Dublin adjourned until today an application by the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child for a permanent ban on Irish student union leaders distributing information on abortion facilities in Britain and a related contempt hearing . |
| 26 | It seems likely that the masonry of the chimney 's lower section came from either a demolished house or another mill , as the quality of workmanship is of a higher standard than would have been strictly necessary . |
| 27 | ‘ Lomax ! ’ she snapped , her voice sounding as if it came from inside a biscuit tin . |
| 28 | He was born in seventeen sixty , in the middle of France , really , erm , and he came from quite a large family . |
| 29 | came from quite a wide area way up in the hills Airedale and all that area , at the foot of the Cleveland hills |
| 30 | You seemed to rather a lot for her . |