Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some district council 's elect all their councillors once every four years — others elect a third of them each year with a year off while the county council elections are held . |
| 2 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
| 3 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 4 | But I thank You for giving me this sight of a life of Truth . |
| 5 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 6 | This puts them half way between a drug and a health food . |
| 7 | Yes , er er I mean I agree with you Chairman entirely , I mean the arguments have been made before and I will just say them again , that I think the District Council are quite remiss er in asking for this sum of money , particularly in view of the reason that the , the , the field is there , which is for the recreation of the people who live in the estate , and the back end of Southwell , and it always has been , er and that is a responsibility that has been taken on by this Parish Council , and if , if , if they feel that they , they wish to persist in asking an unreasonable price , and let's face it , the District Council is in a position to look at this situation and say , the Parish Council is doing an excellent job , we will sell them this land for a figure that they can afford . |
| 8 | Dent is so refreshingly different from the city environments of most of the visitors that it would be churlish to deny them this glimpse of a way of life that belongs to history . |
| 9 | Targets , give me another name for a target , hands up , another name for a target . |
| 10 | I have in front of me some photographs from a collection of settlers ' memories . |
| 11 | Please could you give me some information on a fish called Bitterling , or Chinese Bitterling ? |
| 12 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 13 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 14 | There is a close link between my own experience as a learner and the experience of my pupils . |
| 15 | Commenting on the recent claim by junior schools minister Michael Fallon that " governors , not councils , now run our schools " , Ann Holt writes " My own experience as a governor , and as one who meets other governors , makes me less sure about the feasibility or desirability of Mr Fallon 's ambitions . |
| 16 | And now at last I feel that I am emerging from the defilements , I have reached my own self as a swimmer reaches the shore . |
| 17 | Let me be personal here , for coming to grips with this has been an important milestone in my own life as a Christian . |
| 18 | The latest of SAVE 's publications is Bright Future : The Re-Use of Industrial Buildings , written with the architect Francis Machin , who is best known for his futuristic conservatories , but whose conversions include the transformation of my own barn into a library and office . |
| 19 | Ironically , because having shown me what he termed ‘ retroscendence ’ , The Fat Controller was content to let me stew in my own juice for a while . |
| 20 | ‘ It may seem so to you , but you can take my word for it , if I were in the business of prowling around car parks looking for innocent Bentleys to wreck , I most certainly would n't use my own car as a battering-ram . |
| 21 | ‘ I am ready for the challenge and a chance to stamp my own authority on a team . |
| 22 | The improvement of the quality of work performed by criminal justice personnel through improved training has been much talked about and advocated since at least my own days as a trainee assistant governor almost thirty years ago , and probably well before that . |
| 23 | And I think it 's time I slipped off to my own room for a while , to look in on Rainbow via the remote . |
| 24 | In the latter I was shocked to find letters from contenders for the distinction of Nottingham 's oldest graduate who were only a year or two older than I. Maybe I ought to record some of my own recollections as a student in the Physics Department of University College Nottingham during the academic years 1928 to 1932 . |
| 25 | I slipped from my own chair without a word , kicked away the detritus of my previous life which was posing as champagne foil , and followed him to the Gents . |
| 26 | She said , ‘ Do you think I 'd arrange to meet my own father in a place like this ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I see myself as a guardian , although I 'm making my own marks with a herb garden and wild flower garden . ’ |
| 28 | I must choose between Dana 's love and my own identity as a person and as a poet . |
| 29 | If I ca n't look after my own son for a couple of hours while you go shopping , heaven help us . ’ |
| 30 | Another experiment carried out by Forster and Olbrei ( 1974 : Experiment 5 ) used a rapid serial visual presentation ( RSVP ) in which each word of a sentence is presented successively at an extremely rapid rate ( 16 words/second ) . |