Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Either the seeds blew in — or someone planted them as a joke , ’ said a senior officer . |
| 2 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 3 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 4 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 5 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 6 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 7 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 8 | Use water wisely , putting it exactly where you want it with a Soakerhose . |
| 9 | If something unexpected happens during an inner journey — perhaps one of your guides will appear when you were expecting your inner child , or you find yourself in a cave rather than on a riverbank — go with your own experience . |
| 10 | Or she zips herself into a black evening gown and she 's a sophisticated 30 year old . |
| 11 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 12 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 13 | Either one of two things : either the period of primitive accumulation is taken just as ‘ pre-history ’ ; in which case it has a strict time-limit … or we see it as a process of ousting ‘ third persons ’ in general — in which case the concept itself has to be abolished , since in that case it does not express anything special , specific , etc . |
| 14 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 15 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 16 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 17 | Azhag fought the Troll , and eventually chased it back to its lair where he slew it after a bloody struggle . |
| 18 | The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar . |
| 19 | Because my one fear is saying , yes we need four per cent thinking that are gon na go for eight , ten or whatever to put us on a par |
| 20 | Send an emissary , or yourself approach him under a flag of truce . |
| 21 | Although I tease it with a tender rage |
| 22 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 23 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 24 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 25 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 26 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 27 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
| 28 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 29 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 30 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |