Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 2 | Whether this charm was involuntary , or used deliberately as a mask to hide his real feelings , she could only guess . |
| 3 | The remainder either stayed at home or moved voluntarily to a relative , neighbour , or friend . |
| 4 | Cash is paid in , drawn out or paid away to a third party by means of cheques . |
| 5 | Besides these major product innovations , the eurobond market has seen a plethora of subsidiary innovations , many of which have been one off or flourished only for a time . |
| 6 | In precisely the same way , when we use the word property it will mean an element of this domain used by speakers in constructing their acts of linguistic communication , and not a property as perceived or conceived extralinguistically in a real or imaginary world , unless we specifically state that the latter is intended . |
| 7 | Bulkier things like sofas can be delivered or whisked away on a rented roof-rack . |
| 8 | But this indeterminacy should not , and ultimately can not , be hidden or brought together under a single overarching account . |
| 9 | The research seeks to assess how much of the business guaranteed by government export credit agencies would be declined by the private sector or accepted only at a higher price . |
| 10 | It can be torn up and stuffed into awkward shapes ; cut to size and layered ; and used on the horizontal or held vertically in a grid . |
| 11 | I imagined it all dissolving in a white heat , or swept away in an enormous wind . |
| 12 | There were the usual pairs of opening lights over each saloon window , all each side being opened or closed together by a small lever . |
| 13 | Providers will be able to offer these HN Units as part of an HNC or HND course , as free standing units or grouped together in a way that will meet a particular local or individual need . |
| 14 | Ambiguous words spoken in anger , or intended merely as a reprimand , may in your eyes amount to words of dismissal , even if there is no constructive dismissal . |
| 15 | Service changed hands eight times and there were four lets in between until Soutter broke the deadlock with a tight drop that created an opening and a lovely cross-court forehand slice that zipped away for a winner . |
| 16 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 17 | Sometimes , when they crossed a run that led upwards to a hole , he could hear the rain outside , still falling in the night . |
| 18 | I can indeed mean the thought that occurred there , rather than mean the thought that occurred nowhere on an occasion when my location was Venice . |
| 19 | The dawn played strange tricks with the pond : it was no longer a muddy puddle , less than ten yards in diameter , but a shining expanse of water , tinted red and silver , and fringed by a belt of trees that seemed more like a forest than the overgrown shrubbery it really was . |
| 20 | A day that seemed more like a dream than real life . |
| 21 | But all that seemed almost like a simple happy life , now that he knew the real questions . |
| 22 | In the late eighteenth century this symbiosis of peers and paupers is revealed in the fashionable aping of lower-class mores and dress , a version of the return to nature that came naturally to an upper class lacking a culture of its own . |
| 23 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 24 | Behind her , the flat expanse in the centre of the roof was dominated by something that perched there like a gigantic black dragonfly . |
| 25 | ‘ About our business and the Lord Owen 's , ’ said Julian , with a vicious snap that belonged rather to a wife than a daughter , ‘ and worse pressed than we are , very likely . |
| 26 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 27 | A long quarter swell built up and for four days and nights the carrack raced along , slipping backwards down each wave as it overtook her , wallowing heavily as the next one came up astern , and making a dazzling white wake that trailed astern like a huge , ragged scar across the aquamarine ocean . |
| 28 | This wistful elegy to the post-Bomb small-town America , The Last Picture Show was probably the first film that pined nostalgically for a generation 's lost innocence , soundtracking Hank Williams ' lonesome holler to great effect . |
| 29 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 30 | At about 10,000ft ( 3300m ) we broke out of the trees into an area of grassland that looked vaguely like a Scottish moor and decided to camp for the night . |