Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procedure followed ensured that only a certain response would disambiguate the message . |
| 2 | He said within minutes Hawkins and Talbot started to argue and then a fight broke out . |
| 3 | But when a crowd of equally hardened bearded old prisoners from another Oflag appeared on the other side of the gate , the inmates of the camp felt rebuffed and even a little concerned . |
| 4 | The neutron production rate appeared to rise after about an hour of electrolysis and then dropped dramatically after eight hours . |
| 5 | It had come as quite a surprise to discover he was charming , very generous , and enormous fun to be with . |
| 6 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 7 | Last year when one of them had left after only a fortnight she had given Nurse Rose a travelling clock and a nearly full bottle of Rochas ' Femme . |
| 8 | Angry John refused to pay and yesterday a spokesman for the bank at Ashton-under-Lyne admitted : ‘ There was a bit of a mix-up . ’ |