Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb -s] [adv prt] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He befriends a battered child , stays faithful to Tess Truchart despite the show stealing advances of Madonna 's Breathless Mahoney and takes on an all-star super cast of grotesques that include Al Pacino and Dustin ‘ Mumbles ’ Hoffman . |
| 2 | One ingenious aid is Bucket Pockets , a durable nylon band with a double row of pockets that fits around an ordinary bucket to make a carrier for the tools , gloves or other small items you wish to have with you in the garden . |
| 3 | Some of these might , I am sure , change their opinion as Wheen fills in the gaps and rounds off an account of a long career that began in 1920s aesthetic Oxford and finished in a heart attack in a London taxi almost 50 years later . |
| 4 | He delves into his portable coolbox and fishes out an ice cool can of lager . |
| 5 | The cultured , husky voice rises and shakes out an incandescence of brilliant obscenity , of sexual and visceral allusion , the stripped message being that serious work is being interrupted by trivialities which someone else should be dealing with . |
| 6 | ‘ There is a strong culture of control at AT&T that goes back an awfully long way , ’ observes Charles Heckscher , a labour-relations academic who has advised AT&T on its ambitious plan . |
| 7 | The beauty of working on location is that so much is experienced , there is the constant interaction with the people and environment , and a constant stream of information filters into the subconscious and builds up an intuitive feeling and empathy for the country , culture and language , which ultimately influenced my drawings . |