Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1914 saw the first axiomatic declaration of exactly what constitutes a ring . |
| 2 | cos in New York they sort of like they have a chat and the wo they 've got some nice looking bird , right , and some sort of normal bloke off the street and they just sort of talk about New York and show lots of pictures of it |
| 3 | Now that 's not every word , this is what happens when you start doing the apostrophe , that , there 'll then be a spate of whenever you see a word ending in s , ah , word ending in s , use an apostrophe , regardless of whether you should use one or not , now you are a lovely think about it . |
| 4 | So we now have two possible answers to the problem of how we recognize a stretch of language as unified and meaningful . |
| 5 | The story — accompanied by more than 150 colour paintings — of how they find a land where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony is an imaginative and interesting read , although adults may baulk at the price . |
| 6 | Confronted with data of the following sort , an extract from a private diary only intended to remind the elderly writer of how she passed a day in January 1982 , the discourse analyst may not be able to proceed very far in his analysis . |
| 7 | What kind of answer do I want to the question of how I use a map in my head ? |
| 8 | Give a brief desista , description of where you get a pint of petrol from . |
| 9 | For once he felt a sense of purpose enlivening his existence . |
| 10 | I simply regarded these absences as a lesson , a foretaste of what it would be like when they became a permanence . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like when one sees a snake . |
| 12 | It seemed like when I heard a saxophone player like Sonny Rollins the sound seemed to come from all over the place — it did n't come from this one little spot . |
| 13 | Most of the time it will be alright , like when you get a present for your birthday from your granny . |
| 14 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 15 | Wrapped and cordless multifilaments , hybrids , notching — what do they have to do with how you hit a tennis ball ? |
| 16 | I grew up with a thing about alcohol — I think that 's got a lot to do with why I preferred a line of coke rather than a drink . |
| 17 | But from somewhere she heard a calling that whispered the sacred word ‘ Callanish ’ and said that no Callanish eagle could die here so far from home where no eagle ever flew . |
| 18 | Before long they opened a grocery-cum-delicatessen in a good position as far as passing trade was concerned . |
| 19 | James 's original idea was for a short sea crossing from Ambleteuse near Calais , where he had landed at the start of his exile , and from here he proposed a descent on Kent . |
| 20 | From here he controlled a web of spies and informers that ran from Madurai to Attock , from the beaches of Malabar to the mangrove swamps of Bengal . |
| 21 | From here you follow a tractor track climbing the opposite slope which passes through a gate and continues through the birch woods beside Allt Gleann Chaorachain . |
| 22 | Was there anybody in here who plays a recorder and has some knowledge already of music and would be interested trying for the violin ? |
| 23 | And the award was a certificate from the home secretary a very treasured certificate from a highly respected member of the cabinet , and erm where it 's gone from there we had a meeting at the home office |
| 24 | I went round all the hospitals in Edinburgh and Leith all the doctors surgeries and there was nowhere and I ended up at the the women 's unit in Edinburgh City Chambers and I got help from the women 's unit and er from there we started a pressure group to get more literature to people , you know to get them into doctor 's surgeries so as they would know what to do , what to expect . |
| 25 | From there he got a taxi home , arriving at 2am . |
| 26 | From there he fly a Learjet , acting as pathfinder for the Skyhawks , and I believe once for the Super Etendards . |
| 27 | From there he begged a lift in a bomber belonging to the Desert Air Force , and the crew flew him to Udine — he had been very glad of his sheepskin coat and boots . |
| 28 | From there I found a ship which was returning to England . |
| 29 | From there she managed a number of CCG units including STV 's Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh , something of a challenge as Mrs Lawson explained . |
| 30 | Erm from then we got a council house which is where the wife 's living at the moment . |