Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 2 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 3 | Of course I dealt also with a large number of other factors , highways , environmental considerations , archaeology . |
| 4 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 5 | While Lisabeth was mainlining Cadbury 's Bournville I rummaged around for a sports bag ( one that advertised Marlboro fags , naturally ) and began to pack a spare everything . |
| 6 | Pedalling home , I used to play a game — that with every light I saw on in a house , I would get £1,000 a year . |
| 7 | Birds , snakes , lizards , fish and monkeys are wild animals which adapt badly to a caged life . |
| 8 | But what kind of battle ? she wondered apprehensively , discovering an exit from this bedroom which led on to a terrace , with an archway framing a velvety night sky filled with bright silver stars . |
| 9 | Waves which break vigorously on a steep beach . |
| 10 | The design aim at the beginning of this project was to have a power supply adjustable over a range of about 5V to 15V which regulated well with a maximum current output of about 5A . |
| 11 | He was suddenly shaken from his thoughts by a car which slid silently to a halt beside him . |
| 12 | The rope was knotted round her neck which hung sideways at a bizarre angle . |
| 13 | Death Becomes Her is a glitzy , glossy affair which glides through its paces in vapidly enertaining Zemeckis style , but a movie which starts out with a huge talent to amuse loses its impetus . |
| 14 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 15 | It was one of the three schools which came about as a result of pressure from adult deaf societies . |
| 16 | The joint between the end of the dock and the standing work of the bay end is preferably a direct butt joint between suitable packed or faced surfaces at the leading following and bottom sides of the dock which close simultaneously by a direct butting , as distinguished from a sliding , motion against corresponding surfaces on the standing work . |
| 17 | The spores of these plants develop into a thin filmy plant called the thallus which looks not unlike a liverwort and releases its sex cells from its underside where there is permanent moisture . |
| 18 | Two wires culminate in a snap-on terminal which pushes on to a PP3 or a pod . |
| 19 | There are 14 tie rods which pass laterally through a Merlin crankcase ; two through each of the seven main caps . |
| 20 | It has a single lubricator for the cylinders and a single safety valve which divides out like a Drummond safety valve on top of the dome . |
| 21 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby was full of praise for his reserve side who went down to a single goal defeat to star-studded Manchester United Reserve side at Roker Park on Wednesday evening . |
| 22 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |
| 23 | The rest are occupied by morose couples , mostly women , pairs of widowed sisters or spinster daughters with ageing mothers , and two Golden Wedding survivors who gaze out of a window across the green expanse of Parkers Piece , having run out of conversation years ago . |
| 24 | Twenty five minutes behind Pat at the finishing line was Personnel Training Adviser who came in with a time of three hours 40 minutes . |
| 25 | The fury of the critics was directed at the intellectual poet who wrote deliberately like a simpleton in the Lyrical Ballads and the Poems of 1807 . |
| 26 | West Germany 's defender who played on with a broken collar bone in 1970 ( see taking it too seriously and injuries ) . |
| 27 | Yet such lack of judgement does not justify the thief who breaks into the car and steals the radio or the hooligan who takes off on a joy ride . |
| 28 | And there is no trace left of the gaunt figure who stepped out of a VC10 and on to the tarmac at RAF Lyneham . |
| 29 | Increasing the amount of interview you get through in a day ? |
| 30 | ‘ Proper Darby and Joan Club we run here of a Thursday . |