Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I loved the ending , ’ she added quickly , turning back to face them with her familiar , brilliant smile in place , ‘ with the hero playing himself for once in a crowd of clowns , as though he could only be real in an unreal world and vice versa … . |
| 2 | I said , ‘ If you want somewhere to use , you can use my flat , just as long as there 's only one of you in there at a time . ’ |
| 3 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
| 4 | And this bloke come in today and erm looked a bit , looked a bit like a tramp did n't quite catch what he said , I 'm sure he said God sent me in here for a cigarette ! |
| 5 | Once they get wind of that they 'll have me in there like a shot — And me hands are getting worse . |
| 6 | Often the height and fast bipedalism of the carnosaurs enabled them to tower over the extremely well-protected horned ceratopsians , and simply seize them from above with a powerfully armed mouth . |
| 7 | He broke through , and was across the clearing that separated him from Yet in a twinkling . |
| 8 | If someone touched him from behind on a crowded Saturday night he would push himself back onto the anonymous hand , just like a cat would , without turning round to see who it was . |
| 9 | He made a lunge towards Rory , but Adam proved too fast for him , grabbing him from behind in a tackle that would have felled an ox . |
| 10 | Mary was still a good looking woman and Sid had admired her from afar for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ I only put her in there for a minute . ’ |
| 12 | On his previous outing , at Ayr , the four-year-old gave Sonilla 17lb and ran her to three-parts of a length , with Ned 's Aura third . |
| 13 | He quickly engineered the overthrow of the Conservative and Anglican majorities on the town council and the school board and put in place a political machine which carried all before it for well over a decade . |
| 14 | The Range Rover left it behind quickly on a steep road which wound up in hairpin bends for a mile before levelling out on the road to Haverfordwest . |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't had anyone in here for a while , ’ she said , semi-apologetically . |
| 16 | and er it 's that warm , it 's got to be really cold , I mean you could n't wear it in here on a Sunday night |
| 17 | If it 's on a solid surface you could light it from above with a downlight or spot . |
| 18 | If an arrangement is on a glass table try lighting it from underneath with an uplight . |
| 19 | Yes only yes you took it I can take it from tomorrow for a week |
| 20 | you realise how important it is , that a , you 've got to learn self control in life , and that 's what Jenny learnt , she , she , never had to learn it , she had it from naturally from a , a little child . |
| 21 | The peers argue that if Britain fails to treat it at least as a basis for negotiation ‘ the other 11 member states may well go ahead and sign the charter without any UK participation ’ . |
| 22 | But erm I feel perhaps we should do it at least over a period , you know rather than |
| 23 | May I suggest that the government abolish forthwith the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , and replace it at once by a Foundation for Gardeners , Handymen , Babysitters and the Arts . |
| 24 | If I ca n't manage it in a quiet room , or a temporary study , I impose it on everyone at least for a short time . |
| 25 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 26 | He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly . |
| 27 | His touch is sure from the start ; Ravel 's L'Enfant et les Sortileges he paces beautifully , and by making his fantastic characters tiny beside a huge , solid door , takes us at once into a child 's world to be thrilled and frightened . |