Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So including them here on a stock instrument represents something of a treat for the would-be vintage guitar purchaser who has been otherwise stopped in his tracks by the silly money habitually demanded for early '60s Strats . |
| 2 | The Doctor flung himself down beside them just as a final blast scattered small chips and stone fragments over them . |
| 3 | He hunkered down beside her just as a flaming beam from the ceiling crashed to the ground only inches away . |
| 4 | I 'll catch up with you again in a few minutes . |
| 5 | The major Western degenerative diseases do n't happen in an instant — like infective diseases — but appear to creep up on us slowly as a result of years and years of bad eating . |
| 6 | ‘ An accountant came up to me once at a party and said , do n't you find it boring doing the same thing night after night . ’ |
| 7 | Another waiter came up to him then with a bundle of letters and cash that he had left behind in the foyer and forgotten . |
| 8 | She looked up at me steadily for a moment before she spoke . |
| 9 | Squinting up at her out of a pair of rheumy eyes , he addressed her , his voice cracked and senile . |
| 10 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 11 | If he had n't known that fact himself , Devlin Parnham had pointed it out to him repeatedly with a self-satisfied little smirk . |
| 12 | It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date ! |
| 13 | He takes a long draw on the J , while I sit there thinking , Oh shit , then he hands the number back to me again with a big grin on his face . |
| 14 | Pickwick came back to him dimly as a Dickensian character . |
| 15 | He had thought that he must come back to her now as a stranger , learning afresh the shape of her wide forehead and tapering face , and the way she had of opening her eyes wide to take in entire the person to whom she spoke . |
| 16 | The autobiography — Sins of My Old Age and Earlier he had already dipped into , and he went back to it reluctantly for a more systematic reading . |
| 17 | His first words were a salute to the people of South Africa , to whom he declared : " I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you , the people . |
| 18 | ‘ Not your day , is it , Duvall ? ’ said Jimmy , and Duvall glared hard at him again with a look that spoke again of reckonings to come after the nightmare was over . |
| 19 | D c c could you have visualized any way in which production could have been controlled apart from his down about a certain amount ? |
| 20 | I 'm afraid I have n't a spare copy to forward to you even on a loan basis , one never allows for the contingencies which arise . |