Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |
| 2 | Teacher : Can I come for a ride in your train ? |
| 3 | I 've got some pills but they make me feel like a rag in the mornings . |
| 4 | I have a folding mac that makes me look like a haystack in the rain , I have an umbrella that would fit most of Dublin under it . ’ |
| 5 | How much help will you need as a returner in the management of caseloads and identification of priorities within that caseload ? |
| 6 | Can you imagine down a hill in road roller . |
| 7 | Suddenly struck by an idea , he said , ‘ What do you say to a week in London ? |
| 8 | I was determined that I would not communicate this nervousness to my sons , and so I did my best not to react should we come across a dog in the street . |
| 9 | My mum was wearing a sort of large red sack and a conical hat that made her look like a gnome in a pantomime . |
| 10 | Police saw him go into a flat in West London but by the time they entered he 'd gone . |
| 11 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 12 | By the light of the second lamp , he saw it disappear through a hole in one of the great pictures on the wall . |
| 13 | She had actually thought of asking for no less than John now proposed ; so why did it feel like a slap in the face ? |
| 14 | Does it reek of a principle in the general and musical education of the English that any expression of personal feeling touches upon bad taste ? |
| 15 | The intern cleaned me up then made me lie on a trolley in a curtained cubicle . |
| 16 | Let us look at a sequence in a recent series of lessons with the Vancouver children already referred to earlier in this chapter . |
| 17 | We know that our clock is normally adjusted by various external factors — and now we can use them to help us adjust to a change in life-style . |