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 Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room .
5 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 .
6 Use water wisely , putting it exactly where you want it with a Soakerhose .
7 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 .
8 Or she zips herself into a black evening gown and she 's a sophisticated 30 year old .
9 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 .
10 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 !
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 . ’
13 Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past .
14 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 .
15 Azhag fought the Troll , and eventually chased it back to its lair where he slew it after a bloody struggle .
16 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 .
17 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
18 Send an emissary , or yourself approach him under a flag of truce .
19 Although I tease it with a tender rage
20 I was so surprised that I followed him without a word .
21 The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink .
22 Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’
26 But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’
27 It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice .
28 ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’
29 Now that I seek myself in a serpent
30 I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now .
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