Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | keeping my mind still as a pool |
| 2 | It was evident that my ideas on semantics needed more careful exploration , so I developed my work further into a monograph . |
| 3 | It sat in my wardrobe malevolently for a while until , out of sheer defiance , I grew two inches in as many months and in most directions . |
| 4 | ‘ I ai n't breaking no law , guvnor , I 'm just borrowing a few pence off my friend here for a drink . ’ |
| 5 | I grew up close to my godmother so as a child I was inoculated with the theatre . |
| 6 | After this I put my name forward as a candidate for the official biography and so informed my editor at Collins , Philip Ziegler . |
| 7 | Now my relationship with David did actually include sex , but it was never initiated on that basis as he 'd come to my flat only as a lodger and during the course of the time he was there , we slept together . |
| 8 | Honecker begs in vain , then finally asks : ‘ Can I at least leave my luggage here for a bit ? ’ |
| 9 | Rome Central is one of the three top postings in the country , along with Milan and Naples , and I 'd worked my way there through a succession of jobs in various provincial headquarters . |
| 10 | I look back on my time there with a lot of affection , but I feel that if a rock writer is doing his job properly , three years is about it . ’ |
| 11 | There 's good sport over that high pasture , I remember it well from my time there as a boy . |
| 12 | In your got my fork instead of a spoon did n't I ? |
| 13 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 14 | failing to adopt a comprehensive equal opportunities policy in relation to its activities both as a provider of educational/vocational services and an employer of staff ( in particular the failure to properly consider the need to employ an equal opportunities officer derived from the ethnic minorities using the GOQ provision of the Race Relations Act 1976 ) ; |
| 15 | failing to adopt a comprehensive equal opportunities policy in relation to its activities both as a provider of educational/vocational services and an employer of staff ; |
| 16 | They even put their ages forward by a year , unknown to their parents , when they enlisted . |
| 17 | For most of the time since 1986 , many parent companies would have done better putting their money safely in a bank deposit than risking it in the securities markets . |
| 18 | Life With Lyle by Sandy Lyle 's caddie , Dave Musgrove , breaks the mould , being a record , kept by Musgrove , of their times together during a period when Lyle won three events in America , including the US Masters , and three events in Europe , including the World Match Play Championship . |
| 19 | Rosheen pushed away her empty plate and wiped her fingers absently on a sheet of tissue . |
| 20 | She dipped her fingers delicately into a dish and , to my astonishment , popped a morsel of food into my mouth instead of into her own . |
| 21 | Jay trembled and clamped her teeth together on a chill sip of wine , the kiss of alcohol meaningless on the tight-lipped blues . |
| 22 | His fingers stirred lazily against her skin , and she clamped her teeth together over a gasp . |
| 23 | With Holderness being very flat land it was often swampy and wet , so people originally tended to build their homes somewhere on a hill . |
| 24 | This review of child-care in Scotland began before the children in Orkney were taken from their homes early on a February morning . |
| 25 | The radical tradition , from the Chartist Sunday Schools of the 1840s through to the WEA and extra-mural department situated its practice firmly within a labour movement paradigm that increasingly placed the organised working class — defined above all as the active members of the trade union movement — at the heart of its endeavours . |
| 26 | She snapped open her handbag blindly with a sense of gathering panic . |
| 27 | He saw clips of them with their heads together across a table in a wine bar , or making love in the garden of a cottage they had once rented in the New Forest , or building a sand castle with the twins on their first family holiday together at the seaside . |
| 28 | After the two cross-examinations , lasting perhaps ten or fifteen minutes in all , the two counsel put their heads together for a minute , and then one of them addresses the rest of the gathering , who have acted as jury , and submits that the alibi has been broken down because of this and that discrepancy . |
| 29 | Many mourners at Père Lachaise made their pilgrimages once in a lifetime — and left eternally inert blooms , the insignia of melancholy . |
| 30 | As Miss Fergusson explained the extent and purpose of their journey , the diplomat studied her : a dark-haired woman in early middle age , with protuberant black eyes and rather full , reddish cheeks which pushed her lips forward into a pout . |