Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 2 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
| 4 | He 'd already burned quite a few wallfuls , and had come down , under protest as much to keep Ajayi happy as anything else . |
| 5 | She was surprised how much the gardens were used ; they 'd always seemed just a square on a city map before , not a three-dimensional patch of wildness surrounded by traffic . |
| 6 | He recalled excitedly bringing home a drawing from school , which a teacher had praised . |
| 7 | ‘ He showed up wearing only a backpack and a devilish smirk , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 8 | The people who lived here moved away a couple of years ago , so I was told . |
| 9 | Who then went on to win quite a lot of money , cos he could |
| 10 | But it was n't like the long white er the wild white clover but it did only did maybe a year or two . |
| 11 | The liberals of Cadiz , therefore , did not represent merely a minority group within the political nation in spite of their imperfect election credentials ; as far as there was a political nation , it was reformist . |
| 12 | The latter airlifted $2.2 billion worth of weaponry to prevent Israel 's defeat but on condition that it did not press home a counter-attack . |
| 13 | The highwayman was guilty of an aggravated form of stealing and did not obtain even a voidable title . |
| 14 | Firth may be generalisable : a person can obtain by deception even though he did not put forth a misrepresentation , when he is under a duty to disclose . |
| 15 | This would enable a tough general manager to ensure that medical audit did not become simply a talk shop or token activity . |
| 16 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 17 | Nevertheless Mark wondered why , since he was in the trade , Mr Mallory did not own even a modest vehicle . |
| 18 | Simmons seemed saved shots from Herbert and Aries and did well to turn away a goalbound shot from Appleton . |
| 19 | Thinking that if he ignored her , did n't show even a whisper of interest in her , she would give up and go home under her own steam , thereby allowing her to rescue some of her dignity . |
| 20 | For the next few days Shelley did n't catch even a glimpse of her chief . |
| 21 | He did n't seem quite a man , standing stiff and awkward in his ill-fitting uniform . |
| 22 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 23 | David Leadbetter stated that Ballesteros was brooding , that it had all become quite a grind for him . |
| 24 | It was not going to be possible to keep from Olga the information that her son had suddenly become quite a well-to-do youngster , though he had warned Hank on no account to tell her how much he had made out of his book . |
| 25 | However in East Anglia the South Downs group still supplied a large proportion ( this time somewhat under 50 per cent of the axeheads ) , whereas East Anglian sources , such as Grimes Graves , had apparently cornered only a small proportion of the market . |
| 26 | The duke had already sent forward a large detachment under General Humphrey Bland to the Strathbogie district , the principal town of which was Keith , seven miles [ 11 km ] east of the Spey , but they were surprised by a far smaller fighting patrol of 200 rebel foot and 40 horse , who had crossed the Spey under cover of darkness . |
| 27 | Tall , slim , elegant , and totally dominating at centre-half ; Jimmy joined the Palace on 2 October 1928 and for his debut was plunged into the testing FA Cup-tie against the Southern League ( Eastern Section ) Champions , Kettering Town whose centre-forward had already gained quite a reputation — one Peter Simpson , no less ! |
| 28 | We had already amassed quite a pile of seizures following irregularities uncovered during the previous week 's work at Ullapool , and we returned with Reg Clarke on board to have another bite at the cherry . |
| 29 | He faced the challenge of Dunluce , a 6860-yard , par 73 giant that had already brought quite a few players to their knees , among them title favourite Phil Tataurangi . |
| 30 | The blow was so crippling because confidence had already taken quite a few knocks . |