Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found that quite a hard time erm and especially if you do n't have any family near . |
| 2 | Before the war began , listening to reminiscences of those who had experienced the last war and sensing their dread , I imagined that once a war had started , no one would ever be happy again . |
| 3 | I feared that even an emergency home call might go unheeded . |
| 4 | I thought that rather an inelegant phrase and I shall return to it . |
| 5 | No , I thought that perhaps a stroll down Unter den Linden — such memories for me there — and then I have another idea . |
| 6 | But then I thought that perhaps an accident was awaiting me or one of my relatives . |
| 7 | " And I thought that maybe a few bruises under the seat of your pants might make sure you remember something else that 's important . |
| 8 | ‘ The pike slowly took line off the spool , I struck and then a 15 minute fight began , ’ said David , 15 , from Fyfield , near Abingdon . |
| 9 | Approaching a set of traffic lights where she normally went straight on , and where the queue ahead seemed to stretch into infinity , she realised that only a few cars were waiting to turn left into the Cheltenham road . |
| 10 | You 've just wasted , you finished that quite a long time ago , and you have |
| 11 | She emphasised that only a small proportion of the 30 million eggs eaten daily in the UK would be affected . |
| 12 | She implied that only a fool could allow what was known as ‘ love ’ to enter into consideration in the matter . |
| 13 | Her wings might be old and her talons blunt but strangely her illness had sharpened her mind even more and she knew that somehow a chance would come . |
| 14 | She gave that only a moment 's thought . |
| 15 | The Party wanted ‘ root and branch ’ electoral reform , she said as well a Green might and ( among many other things ) more power for parish councils . |
| 16 | We observed that sometimes a sentiment attributed to a powerful senior member of the county bureaucracy was accepted as sufficient grounds for considering a school more sympathetically ( or more critically ) than would otherwise be the case . |
| 17 | On the other side , ‘ some years ago we observed that quite a large proportion of the concentrated acids we sold was diluted by our customers on site and sometimes in rather unsatisfactory conditions ; small companies did n't have facilities to dilute acid safety — it generates a lot of heat . |
| 18 | Nick and I went to see Canon Oates and we knew after only a few minutes in his company that he wanted to help very much . |
| 19 | We saw that only a few months ago when the right hon. Gentleman vetoed the appointment of a Labour city councillor in favour of the appointment of his Tory placeman . |
| 20 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 21 | The Council suggested the need for independent ‘ unified ’ research to ascertain the size and scope of the heroin problem , as they feared that otherwise a number of ‘ in-house ’ research papers would be produced which would lack coordination and the necessary overview . |
| 22 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 23 | They left after about an hour , without seeing Koffigoh , who denounced their actions in a broadcast later in the day . |
| 24 | The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans . |
| 25 | And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police . |
| 26 | He noted that only a small part of the ancient Sicàn capital , covering an area 1.5 x 1 km , had been excavated so far . |
| 27 | ‘ It came as quite a surprise ’ , said one . |
| 28 | It came as quite a shock to enter the brightly-lit building . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 30 | If disputes within the party over policy and doctrine were one symptom of Conservative confusion , another was the ‘ legion of leagues ’ which appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when it seemed that hardly a year went by without the founding of some new right-wing association . |