Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what seemed like only a doze she woke to daylight , the wind driving hail against the window with a force which threatened to break it . |
| 2 | Certificates were awarded to 63 girls who all passed 93pc of them passed with either a merit or distinction . |
| 3 | We have the freedom to travel nearly anywhere in the world , English is a language that is widely spoken and understood , most of us have at least a basic secondary education and we have the training resources and ability to go , we do not take full advantage of it . |
| 4 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 5 | I did choose it in my first book , The Selfish Gene , so I thought that here I would fly a kite for a somewhat less-fashionable theory ( although it recently has started gaining ground ) , which seems to me to have at least a sporting chance of being right . |
| 6 | Borrowing or buying on credit tends to he seen in quite a different light from other consumer transactions . |
| 7 | And , while I was not in possession of definite proof , my money was on it coming from somewhere a little further away than the Fulham Palace Road . |
| 8 | the Mass in C is a more successful performance , much less soporific , though again I am occasionally bothered by what sounds like rather a rudderless account . |