Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was completed by 457 B.C. , for Pausanias saw on the apex of the east pediment a golden shield or bowl with a Gorgoneion and below it an inscription ( still partly preserved ) saying that it was dedicated by the Spar tans , a tithe from the spoils taken from the Argives , Athenians and their allies at Tanagra , a battle which took place in that year . |
| 2 | The barrage intensified : the explosions merged into a continuous crackling rumble of noise , the clifftop where Daak had stood was turned into a firework display of blinding flashes , and below it an avalanche of smoking rocks . |
| 3 | Imagine a space capsule in free fall near the Earth : inside it an astronaut strapped to one wall shines a beam of light horizontally at the opposite wall . |
| 4 | Are not they an example to us ? |
| 5 | Is not it an example of what is wrong with the country that the Prime Minister was promoted for trying to reinvent the Lady Bountiful in his first major act as Minister in 1988 ? |
| 6 | Well you an hour are n't you now ? |
| 7 | ‘ Were n't you an attachment ? ’ |
| 8 | Ruth , have n't you an ounce of self-respect ? |
| 9 | Was n't he an actor ? |
| 10 | ‘ Sure and was n't it an act of God that you came at all ? ’ |
| 11 | Were n't it an estimate last time ? |