Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point at issue is that what is happening is not only a tragedy of today but a portent of tomorrow . |
| 2 | If he still appears a hero to some , that may be something the world can live with : for all his defiance , he will have thrown away everything Iraq gained from its eight-year war with Iran , and swallowed many mouthfuls of words about Kuwait remaining Iraq 's 19th province for ever and a day . |
| 3 | I looked up again , and now her perfect form lay in his arms , and her lips were pressed against his own ; and thus , with the corpse of his dead love for an altar , did Leo Vincey plight his troth to her red-handed murderess — plight it for ever and a day . |
| 4 | Because we could row for ever and a day , so we 've decided not to . |
| 5 | The agreement purported to grant a term of uncertain duration which , if valid , now entitles the tenant to stay there for ever and a day at the 1930 rent of £30 ; valuers acting for both parties have agreed that the annual current commercial rent exceeds £10,000 . |
| 6 | But if she were to look for ever and a day , she would not find it . |
| 7 | I suspect that these matters will be discussed on a number of occasions in the future , but the Opposition should not be too complacent about the attitudes and voting patterns of those north of the border for ever and a day . |
| 8 | so be aware that you do n't want to ramble on too long or this appointment could go on for ever and a day . |
| 9 | It lives with you for ever and a day . |
| 10 | The tariff problem was dealt with separately and a tariff convention was subsequently negotiated , but tariff autonomy was not achieved until 1911 . |
| 11 | A loose leg on a dining-chair was dealt with immediately but a charge of two spiders in the bath was met with , ‘ Have you made a mistake in booking ? |
| 12 | What I 'll do for you deliberately er if the situation changes between now and a fortnight 's time after you 've sp spoken to your accountant , I 'll probably look at twenty , thirty and forty just to give you an illustration of what the expectations er are by , by putting a sum in there . |
| 13 | If a church finds itself divided but comes together in spite of this to pray and fast and repent and seek God for a renewal of love , then unity and power can be restored from within and a breakthrough occur . |
| 14 | The conjoint condemnation of enlightened reform from above and a radicalism which derived from doctrines of popular sovereignty was useful because it allowed conservatives to discredit any effort to reform traditional society ; it was possible because the generation of 1760 included pious bureaucrats like Floridablanca , esprits forts like Aranda , and cosmopolitan experts like Olavide ; it was made plausible by the Janus-like face of reform itself . |
| 15 | Whether the picture is seen as a staircase viewed from above or a staircase viewed from below seems to depend on something other than the image on the retina of the viewer . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 17 | There was a table in there and a Windsor chair . |
| 18 | that we had that like a little sitting room , I just had a settee in there and a couple of chairs , it was lovely and cosy in there |
| 19 | Went in there and a Mr , he was the headmaster then , nice chap . |
| 20 | A minor bird in there and a chinchilla , who looks so miserable . |
| 21 | This car drew in there and a chap got out and I thought , what dog 's he got ? |
| 22 | Now look we 've got a fish in there and a fish in there Tim so we must be careful now because otherwise we 're gon na hurt them . |
| 23 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 24 | Geoff 's giving us a really really positive nod over there and a lot of very very suspicious people round the table , Geoff who do n't agree with you I think . |
| 25 | A separator and trivet mean you can cook more than one thing at once and a Rise'n'Time indicator lets you time the cooking process by telling you when the right temperature is reached . |
| 26 | Celebrations include a hymns and psalms flower festival from June 26 to 28 , with a preview next Thursday attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Stockton ; a concert by pupils of Our Lady and St Bede School on Sunday , June 28 ; a concert by St Mary 's Sixth Form College , Middlesbrough , on Tuesday , June 30 , at 7.30pm and a performance by Teesside Appollo Male Voice Choir on Thursday , July 9 . |
| 27 | These methods of construction , notably turf on a stone platform , employed at two of the three sites , timber gates at one at least and a palisade at the third , possess a martial appearance which remains unmatched at any other towns in Britain , where earthwork fortifications were normally of unrevetted dump construction , using material either scraped up from the surface or derived from digging ditches . |