Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] i [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lots of times I think a president seems so out of your league as far as knowing somebody . |
| 2 | For the first couple of years I shared a flat with a friend , then my paternal grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy . |
| 3 | Among the crowd of pedestrians I glimpsed a creature , whether boy or girl , and suddenly had the breath taken from me as though I had been punched , hard . |
| 4 | In 1799 he wrote , ‘ With a pair of tweezers I placed an ant upon the middle of the leaf of Drosera rotundifolia but so as not to disturb the plant . |
| 5 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 6 | Through COPPES I learnt a lot about the political situation of our country and understood the need for an armed struggle against our dictatorship . |
| 7 | A girl I was seeing pretty regularly had gone to France on an exchange visit to Tours I took a job for a couple of weeks in a lino warehouse with the idea of getting some money together |