Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 2 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
| 3 | The whole complex of events in the Persian wars from the fall of Sardis to the retreat of Xerxes was seen as a unity and formed what Robert Drews has called ‘ one Great Event of awesome proportions ’ . |
| 4 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 5 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 6 | Sister Duggan had Eileen , s few belongings in a case and handed them to Liam . |
| 7 | ‘ He game me a bit of a shoulder into the body which flew me a bit and got me rather p— . |
| 8 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 9 | But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look . |
| 10 | There were dances in the Hut by the Strathmore Arms and when we grew up a bit and thought our fathers would n't find out we would nip into the Strathmore Arms for a pint , on the few occasions we could afford . |
| 11 | I have a , a you know , which was too full , too thick , too full , so I thought I , I open a bit and took it out , so I have to find a place for it . . |
| 12 | She came out with us for two or three days and sort of sat you know up a bit and saw us , but then the next week she was really no good at all |
| 13 | With a sigh , she rolled over and floated on her back for a bit and did her best to talk herself out of her feelings for Guido . |
| 14 | He laughed a bit and stroked his beard a bit . |
| 15 | that the Germans had tidied it up a bit and turned it into a garden . |
| 16 | It denied Mr Yeltsin the right to hold a referendum and accused him of stirring confrontation . |
| 17 | With a tenderness that surprised her the Frenchman put his arms around her and lifted her onto the cot beside him . |
| 18 | They were looking into each other 's eyes with a tenderness that brought her a cruel , twisting anguish . |
| 19 | He took a stick and hit me on the arm . |
| 20 | When she stepped on a stick and snapped it , the sudden noise caused a rook to rise from its nest with a startled beating of wings . |
| 21 | The Warden had said , as he took a stick and pushed it firmly into its prepared hole , ‘ Cut a piece off a tree and you 've got another tree for free . ‘ |
| 22 | Garry wiped his hands on a tea-towel and faced his brother . |
| 23 | The hardware gave her a shell that helped her cope . |
| 24 | In sharp contrast to the revolted and tortured Dubrulle , young Second Lieutenant Campana recounts how , at the end of his third spell in the line at Verdun , he cold-bloodedly photographed the body of one of his men killed by a shell that hit his own dugout , |
| 25 | The minutes crawled like tired snails , but the ambulance arrived before Tom had returned from making his phone calls in the study , and with the compassionate yet businesslike speed that Belinda never ceased to admire , the paramedic ambulance officers slid Faye on to a stretcher and carried her to the waiting vehicle , where an intravenous line could be set up immediately . |
| 26 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 27 | THE flight from Berlin to Cap de la Hague took just over three hours , Asa charting a course that took them over parts of occupied Holland , Belgium and then France . |
| 28 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 29 | Did you have any experience of a kind that helped you before you came to drama school ? |
| 30 | There was a lilt that reminded him of Ella Fitzgerald . |