Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technical department provided a base for him in order that he could pursue Technical Studies over and above normal classes . |
| 2 | You may find it helpful to make a chart about her like the one below . |
| 3 | He well recalls a couplet about him in The Times : ‘ He was right , dead right , as he walked along ; but he was just as dead as if he 'd been wrong . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I kept a lookout for you on the ship . |
| 5 | Mr Sisulu , now 77 , was six years older than Mr Mandela and became something of a mentor to him on his arrival in Johannesburg in 1941 . |
| 6 | Eleanor was a bit of a trial to him at times . |
| 7 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 8 | It will simply be a case of which of the two areas can muster the greatest amount of support in order to secure the development for their own area ! |
| 9 | The motherboard can take a full 66MHz DX2 chip but there 's no easy upgrade socket — it 's a case of our with the old and in with the new . |
| 10 | There is n't the ghost of a case against me in anything you have . |
| 11 | For some reason , William sought to get rid of Adelizia and he began a case against her in the church courts which ended in a declaration by Pope Innocent II that his first contractual marriage was binding . |
| 12 | ‘ My mother 's very interested in it , and I have to know a bit about it as a florist . |
| 13 | ‘ Actually , I already know quite a bit about it from the guide-books , ’ she began . |
| 14 | So why , why , why ca n't you just erm why ca n't they just take a bit off everybody in that case and , and inflict the same degree ? |
| 15 | There 's a bit of everything in there and David is a very important part of it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have a bit of everything in me . ’ |
| 17 | a bit of something on it just |
| 18 | Mind you , us kids often used to sneakily eat a bit of it on the way home — happy days ! |
| 19 | She says she 's spent her life living modestly , as Eric wanted , but now she wants to blow a bit of it on some fun … |
| 20 | There was silence at the table for a moment , until the old lady spoke again ; ‘ You 've all forgotten the Boer War , ’ she said , ‘ although Hughie 's carrying a bit of it in his leg . |
| 21 | So that , that 's a bit of it in there . |
| 22 | Yes and er I er they got me on that and I 'd er seen a bit on it before hand one way or another , but I went to a place and , and asked them if I could er see and er they showed me and explained it , the er the way to er . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't be ungrateful , ’ said Caroline , who was a bit above herself at the best of times . |
| 24 | He said he does n't look a bit like he in real life what he does in that film does he ? |
| 25 | On the subject of the draft union treaty , Gorbachev introduced the idea of holding a referendum on it throughout the country . |
| 26 | If we plan a burglary between us at least it makes us think about the , the sort of things that we need to look at our houses , to stop that burglary from |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll be doing a runner on me in a minute , wo n't you ? ’ he said . |
| 28 | On one occasion my father sent a runner to him in the Danakil country with an important letter . |
| 29 | The trustee must not , except with the leave of the court , proceed to declare a dividend whilst there is pending any application to the court to reverse or vary a decision of his on a proof or to expunge a proof or to reduce the amount claimed ( r 11.5(2) ) . |
| 30 | He came to a decision to which on the evidence before him he was entitled to come , and it was not a decision with which the court could properly interfere . |