Example sentences of "with a [adj] [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regional authorities are much happier with a combined approach and it seems possible to retain our individual identity within this framework , while promoting development education ( and allaying the fear of a hidden agenda for fundraising ) . |
| 2 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 3 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 4 | From the preface it also appears that the design of the book is to assist the reader who is concerned with a specific problem and who ‘ has read carefully and understood ( so far as the draftsmanship will permit him to understand ) the clause on which he requires guidance . |
| 5 | Wycliffe saw a gull which seemed to be standing on the water but as he watched it took off with a derisive squawk and he caught sight of the lattice framework of the Wheel lifting to the swell . |
| 6 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 7 | The treaty , with a 10-year durations and which required ratification by both parliaments , followed that confirming the Oder-Neisse border between the two countries signed in November 1990 [ see p. 37867 ] . |
| 8 | Ten days in an alien village with a total stranger and her totally strange family . |
| 9 | He stared at her with a dead-pan face and she was not sure whether he was serious or not . |
| 10 | It was the political equivalent of a 2ft-long stiletto with a poisoned tip and it delighted the Labour and Conservative ranks . |
| 11 | I am an advocate of an arm 's length relationship with a Labour government and I have no desire to be knocking the door of No 10 on a whole range of issues . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Only one old woman killed , and she with a frightful goitre and her husband long ago disappeared in the hills . |
| 13 | I 'm sitting pretty in a nice house with a successful businessman and you 're left slaving away teaching a lot of nasty little children the ABC . ’ |
| 14 | In the imperfect world , where things get misunderstood , a woman has to realise that when she returns from the kitchen with a toasted sandwich and her man barks , ‘ I said cheese and tomato , not just cheese ! ’ he is probably not so much worried about his stomach as about her hearing . |
| 15 | It already exists — try driving with a defective headlight and you 'll find out . |
| 16 | With a golden tan and her hair sun-bleached rather than bottle-blonde , she looked thoroughly acclimatized , and today had dressed island-style in a bright multi-coloured sarong hand-printed with tropical flowers . |
| 17 | He was not dead ; his lips bubbled with a bloody froth and his eyelids fluttered . |
| 18 | The greatest test of this season has yet to come , when they play an English side with a dented pride and one where many players have still to get over their last defeat by Scotland three years ago . |
| 19 | ‘ The same thing happened to Arsenal last season after Benfica knocked them out , of the European Cup , but they came with a late run and it 's up to us to do the same . |
| 20 | He asked her if she was all right and she said , ‘ I 'm fine , ’ but it was with a weak smile and her eyes barely focusing on him . |
| 21 | This was probably the only one in the shop with a rebellious lid and they 'd had to pick it . |
| 22 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 23 | She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down . |
| 24 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 25 | A Hurley and then A Brush with A Good Band and you Have A Night To Remember … |
| 26 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 27 | With the role of the heavy father properly cast — stumping up the stairs with a desperate expression and his two pistols , he wrote , ‘ this anticlimax , this adding of injury to insult , seems to me irresistible ’ . |
| 28 | Those with a nervous disposition and who are anxious or panicky are more likely to be sensitive to the adverse effects of caffeine . |
| 29 | She changed the subject , just as Piers sat back down , favouring Simone with a broad smile and herself with nothing at all . |
| 30 | At the conference a successful effort had been made to invite informed opinion not only from the educational community but from many interest groups within Nigeria , an initiative which met with a splendid response and which led , with the help of some skilful chairmanship and competent editing to the production of a useful and sensible working document . |