Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's continue the story for just a moment in a ridiculous way . |
| 2 | ‘ Three men see a boy for about a second in the dark , in the middle of a lot of smoke and noise . |
| 3 | ‘ But she 's a simple country girl with hardly a thought in her head . |
| 4 | There had been a running buffet in the kitchen and they helped themselves when they were hungry , like gauchos on an Argentine estancia , but meals glued life together for Alan 's family and he could be heard intoning , intoning , instructing , instructing in his foggy monotone with never a word in reply , until the children were able to ‘ get down ’ . |
| 5 | Although it believes it has a technological lead of around a year in the RISC notebook market , Gilkes does n't expect Tadpole to have the ground all to itself for much longer . |
| 6 | Yorkshire Television is apparently going into the new franchise with not a woman in its top rank . |
| 7 | For a Masai a broad , grassy plain with barely a tree in sight is preferable . |
| 8 | Fees are payable , on the basis of Sched 1 , scale A , on the value of the land less charges secured thereon if there is a transfer of the whole and in the case of a disposition of only a share in the land on the equivalent proportion of the value of the land which is the subject of the dealing , after deducting therefrom an equivalent proportion of the amount secured on the land ( by way of mortgage ) . |
| 9 | By contrast , the Conservatives have been able to raise public spending by nearly a quarter in real terms . |
| 10 | He took Kelly by the arm to where a man in dark robes was in earnest conversation with a girl in a skimpy black T-shirt with ‘ BIMBO POWER ’ scrawled in white across her chest . |