Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having served as sort of er apprentice there as an artillery clerk , I was put , posted up to Woolwich to go through a erm clerk 's course . |
| 2 | To stop it from sucking because it dissolves too well It 's like you in there drinking drinking er coke out of a straw if you you suck enough It 'll all end up in your mouth . |
| 3 | Income support makes a person 's income up to a level set by the Government . |
| 4 | Right , the story 's building up to a sort of crescendo erm the the Sanhedrin was saying he heard him say I will tear down this temple which men have made and after three days I will build one that is not made by men with our hindsight , with our knowledge of what went on . |
| 5 | Like James , Simon Peter is at first a devout Jew , who sees Jesus 's teaching exclusively in a Judaic context . |
| 6 | Anthony , recognizing incompetence , grasped Dalgliesh 's hair firmly with a sticky hand and he felt the momentary touch of a cheek , so soft that it was like the fall of a petal . |
| 7 | At the moment of extinction , he had held the young man 's mind up like a pierced coconut and let all the thin milk trickle out . |
| 8 | But at least it had the effect of setting Lucy 's mind back on a more even keel , and she worked steadily until she was disturbed by Doreen sweeping into the office . |
| 9 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 10 | Just about the hardest job in the Commons is making the Opposition 's reply straight after a Government announcement , particularly a financial one . |
| 11 | Keegan returns to the manager 's desk tomorrow with an offer from Jim Smith to take striker Mick Quinn to Portsmouth in exchange for Colin Clarke and Guy Whittingham . |
| 12 | To represent Althusser 's work purely as a ‘ structural Marxism ’ therefore passes over the fact that there were distinct intellectual traditions in France whose difference was particularly pronounced in their respective philosophies of history . |
| 13 | Dyson swerved to avoid a hole in the road , hit it dead in the middle , and brought Bill Waddy 's window down with a crash . |
| 14 | Hibs maybe or move onto the coaching staff ready for Wilko 's move upstairs to a chief Executive thing . |
| 15 | The much-maligned Forest 'keeper literally let two points slip away when he handed Andy Clarke a 12th-minute equaliser after Nigel Clough had got his dad 's team off to a flying start . |
| 16 | Madame Gautier looked up and caught Ellie 's eye just for a moment , and the glance seemed to say , See ? |
| 17 | I see her in my mind 's eye always in a Fair Isle jersey . |
| 18 | The Oak 's room up to a hundred and twenty . |
| 19 | I 'd met Laura 's husband only for a minute or two , but he seemed like a regular guy . |
| 20 | Still , there was something about Maidstone that held Sandison 's attention even after an hour . |
| 21 | There is a card filed under each author 's name up to a maximum of three . |
| 22 | So she 's put Jack 's name down on a new Planning Register . |
| 23 | Neumann 's hanging on to a limited and personalized notion of what constitutes an Allegretto leads him to assume many things for which there is little foundation . |
| 24 | She hauled him out like a conjuror 's rabbit out of a hat . |
| 25 | Some amyl too , which blew Jed 's head up like a mushroom cloud . |
| 26 | ‘ Imagine if Mike picked up the paper and read ‘ Wife lops husband 's head off with a fish slice on a Sunday afternoon ’ and found out it was us . ’ |
| 27 | In some cases , care must be taken not to put ideas into a respondent 's head early in an interview lest these are reflected back at a later point . |
| 28 | He pulled the grey 's head out of a bush and gestured to Isabel to mount . |
| 29 | You ca there 's no sort of questions that sort of s jump out of a text anyway . |
| 30 | The more sceptical see Vercruysse 's defection simply as a private tiff between the artist and Hoet . |