Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling . |
| 2 | I was taken away from the school by my father and tutored in a caravan by an eccentric ex-priest . |
| 3 | To assess whether the failure of Myc or Max alone to transactivate was due to an inability to bind DNA , we tested their function when fused to a heterologous transactivation domain ( VP16 ; Fig. 2 b ) . |
| 4 | On her way back to the surgery , Sophie glanced at her watch and realised with a start that she had left Joanna on her own for nearly two hours . |
| 5 | But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph . |
| 6 | Mortified at what she had done she leapt out of her seat and collided with a waiter , sending the plate of egg fried rice he was carrying flying through the air . |
| 7 | The sweet scent of her native land came back to her , but she also began to remember the terror she had felt when she was wrenched from her home and transported to a place beside the sea . |
| 8 | Once through the hall door , massive under its fanlight and fitted with a brass lock as big as a bible , and down the steps on to the gravel , Nicandra changed back into whatever sort of purposeful animal all the long-sustained acts of kindness and thoughts for the happiness of others had left in her . |
| 9 | Disciplinary action loses its point when imposed in a clumsy , high-handed manner . |
| 10 | He told Lisa that before the operation , and for a few months after , she would have to wear a steel frame pinned to her head and connected to a rigid plaster jacket to hold her damaged neck in place . |
| 11 | Shown as a woman with a vulture skin on her head or identified with a lioness , particularly as Sekhmet . |
| 12 | On the front , you have a picture with a jigsaw-shaped piece missing which you have cut out and either put it on their back or hidden in a little flap on the costume , which can be seen if people lift the flap up . |
| 13 | Six months later she went to prison as a suffragette , having lied about her age and enrolled as a militant . |
| 14 | Miranda slipped from her bed and wandered to a window ; leaning out , she smelled rosemary and eucalyptus as she watched the summer storm approach from the distant cobalt-blue mountains . |
| 15 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 16 | She went back to the car , put away the camera , fetched her book and settled in a chair by the pool to wait . |
| 17 | In both cases students and colleagues of those detained have campaigned vigorously for their release and called for a removal of the intellectual straightjacket , but without success . |
| 18 | She was not clad in the garb of her order but attired in a pale blue dress trimmed with the copper hue of squirrel fur . |
| 19 | Like most snakes it can disarticulate its lower jaw from its upper when confronted with a particularly large meal , but it does more than that . |
| 20 | Feminists in the 60s and 70s deconstructed out culture to find their way and called for a non-hierarchical theory . |
| 21 | Left to die — five tiny puppies separated from their mother and dumped by a busy roadside . |
| 22 | This is made on LR form 63 , signed by the cautioner or his or her solicitor and accompanied by a statutory declaration ( printed on the same form ) . |
| 23 | Large-patterned fabrics will lose their appeal when combined in a complex swag , and should certainly be avoided for bias-cut swags . |
| 24 | She was small , obviously frail , with silvery-white hair drawn back from her face and secured in a knot at the nape of her neck . |
| 25 | Her hair is tied back from her face and held by a long white lacy ribbon , but tumbles down loose behind . |
| 26 | She 'd powdered her face and put on a dab of lipstick . |
| 27 | A thin splinter of moonlight caught the blond stubble of his beard and sliced like a glistening needle across the snout of a .45 revolver . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , all right , spoilsports , ’ he said , feeling disgruntled , and he sat down , missed his cushion and landed with a painful thump on the floor . |
| 29 | Her husband was knocked of his bike and killed by a drunken driver , who was later sentenced to twenty one months in prison . |
| 30 | He lost control of his car and collided with a van being driven by self-employed glazier Stephen Whitehead . |