Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not at all clear , however , whether the addition of the marginal note in the one , and its incorporation in the other , was prompted by new , and supposedly better , information or rather arose simply through a temporary confusion between father and son ( occasioned , perhaps , by something like the confusing apposition of " Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " in the Turan entry corresponding to 840 ) which was then , possibly , perpetuated through inadvertence . |
| 2 | In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment . |
| 3 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 5 | When invited to lecture at Cheltenham Art Gallery he merely read aloud from a printed copy of his talk , Speculations on the Contemporary Painter . |
| 6 | ‘ I only came here as a consultant and do not want to get deeply involved , ’ he insisted . |
| 7 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |
| 8 | For a boy who only worked part-time in a supermarket he had too much money , and this was another source of innuendo from Mrs Frizzell . |
| 9 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 10 | He only won once as a novice but was very consistent . |
| 11 | Six more joined it , slowly screwing out of nothing , until they suddenly stretched together into a tangled web of pulsating tendrils . |
| 12 | We soon roared away in a cloud of dust , shoulder to ribcage with the largest man I have ever seen in my life . |
| 13 | Because their danger was now different the men no longer walked together in a protective knot . |
| 14 | The project was sold twice more before it finally flew again as a modified two-seater , as N9837A . |
| 15 | Reduced to helpless laughter when the young man a few yards away fell headlong into a gulley , forgetting to look where she was putting her own feet , she trod on something hard — and , to her utter astonishment , found a leprechaun . |
| 16 | When Alain 's mother finally went inside with a few rueful shakes of her head and a pleased look on her face , Jenna decided to risk all . |
| 17 | His candidacy thus went forward to a second round run-off scheduled for June 3 , in which his opponent would be an unexpected late entrant Alberto Keinya Fujimori , 52 , of the newly formed Change 90 ( Cambio 90 ) movement who received 24.62 per cent of the vote . |
| 18 | They stood talking and Joanna soon drifted away to a group near by . |
| 19 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 20 | Holding , and when he finally bowled Amiss for a splendid 203 it was clear that the follow-on would not be avoided . |
| 21 | I just had just over a pound |
| 22 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 23 | I just stood there like a punch-drunk boxer , taking the punishment she was handing out . |
| 24 | I just stood there like a goof waiting for him to introduce her . |
| 25 | She was so startled that she just stood there like a dummy , and then , before she quite knew how it had happened , her wet sweater had been whipped over her head , a dry towel thrust into her hand and she was halfway into the hall . |
| 26 | The young prisoner just sat nervously on a stool watching Athelstan . |
| 27 | Pike just sat there with a toupee and tears all over his face , and we sat there staring at him . |
| 28 | I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something ! |
| 29 | I just sat there like a real prat , and I thought |
| 30 | A few distant correspondents , untouched by time , still asked confidently for a painting of a particular ship . |