Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 A reformed chocoholic and one who turned her back on butter only a few months ago , I was interested to see if my attempts to live more healthily had borne fruit .
2 She raked and kept the gravel sweep as meticulously as she kept her house — a convenient house , its well of water only a field distant .
3 These figures relate to 1778 when the knitters were seeking a parliamentary regulation of their wages to levels about a third higher , restoring earnings to the level of twenty years earlier before a long decline had set in .
4 More damning evidence came from Polly , who said she had seen her mother in Cardiff about a year previously with three children , and a day later had seen her without any .
5 He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him .
6 Back from Cuba , his belief in non-violence now a fading memory , he fell in with the dope-smoking radicals of the key young radical movement , Students for a Democratic Society .
7 To be honest , ’ she added , ‘ I find your swings of mood rather a pain .
8 Soften hard skin on your feet with pumicestone then a rich foot cream and wrapping them up in aluminium foil .
9 And having raised our banners of church proudly a change is all what changes should have been !
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