Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think he was quite so committed to your sister as she wanted us to believe , and , talking of that lady , how dare you leave me to cope with an hysterical female on my own ? ’ |
| 2 | The centre , which cost nearly £1.5 million to build , offers people with learning difficulties the chance to learn skills which can help them prepare for an independent life in the community . |
| 3 | It is possible for us to image a society of saints in which no one committed what we see as crimes , in which everyone behaved in an impeccable manner . |
| 4 | In 1986 the Eurotunnel prospectus was published and some of £206m of private money raised in what is generally termed Equity II , Equity I consisting of an earlier placement of £57m by the founder shareholders of Eurotunnel . |
| 5 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 6 | Now what I mean by an easy question something like |
| 7 | How can I think on an empty stomach ? ’ |
| 8 | I argued in an earlier section of this Chapter that questions of value have always had an uncertain place in institutional literary study , and Catherine Belsey explicitly seeks to banish them . |
| 9 | I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel . |
| 10 | It was like watching someone push at an invisible turnstile . |
| 11 | I qualified as an enrolled nurse in 1977 in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Usually someone sneaking towards an artistic niche does so in a sideways , disguised fashion , and under cover of darkness , like a smuggler . |
| 13 | a whole bowl of clean water over his nappy so if you wonder why I got through an extra nappy cos it was n't |
| 14 | I sank into an exquisite passivity staring ahead as dazzling colours flushed and flew , metamorphosing into duck elephant cat dog house . |
| 15 | ‘ But will my lady allow me to share her bed tonight if I smell like an unwashed ram ? ’ |
| 16 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 17 | I was a late and I changed to an early and back to a late . |
| 18 | People living alone are particularly at risk if they smoke because , as I mentioned in an earlier chapter , it is a considerable fire hazard in the home . |
| 19 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 20 | My brother and I behaved with an immune princeliness that was galling . |
| 21 | I stopped until an urgent , ‘ Go on , lass , go on , you 're doin' fine , ’ from the organist prompted the next line . |
| 22 | For a moment I thought the heat from the bung-hole might incinerate my brows , but when I squinted beneath an outstretched palm the sight stole my breath . |
| 23 | I was arrested for riding a bicycle without a rear light ; I woke as an enraged policeman took me by the throat . |
| 24 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 25 | In the past , people have destroyed their documents on aeroplanes and in one case someone came with an outdated passport . |
| 26 | ‘ WHEN clearing-up a glory hole , viz the cupboard under the stairs , I came across an anonymous parcel . |
| 27 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 28 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 29 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 30 | So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water . |