Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God has placed on my heart a real desire to be involved in training , encouraging and equipping Christians to know their God intimately as a Father , and to share my faith in evangelism , taking the Gospel to the people . |
| 2 | Gradually , over the last few minutes , I had become conscious.of a growing discomfort , a tickling , burning sensation in the face and hands , and even In my hair a stinging sort of unpleasantness that suddenly became insupportable . |
| 3 | In my experience a great number of these are people who lacked little in terms of orthodox belief or depth of experience but who have never understood why their faith is true . |
| 4 | I felt this was totally unjust : the reason I did n't like him was because he was a selfish and violent man who was causing my sister a great deal of misery . |
| 5 | I had failed miserably to give my readers a true picture of the visual delights awaiting those who followed in my footsteps . |
| 6 | Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair . |
| 7 | There is at present in my business a great dislike of the bulk chemical businesses , and a great wish on the part of most people to shift out of them . |
| 8 | I took up my place a short distance in front of the Officer in Command of the parade . |
| 9 | A company my request a one-time exemption for a crop not on the list or it may ask the government to add its crop to a list of those permanently exempted form the permitting requirement . |
| 10 | He had been causing my friend a great deal of trouble , so , to shut him up , he had you make an implant of the man committing a murder . |
| 11 | Pehr Kalm had been a student of Linnaeus , to whom he wrote in March 1747 saying that he had collected a great many seeds from the Essex garden of Richard Warner , a special friend of Miller , who promised an introduction and that he intended ‘ taking up my quarters a little way from Chelsea garden to be always with him ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ In addition , ’ resumed Aycliffe , ‘ and in consideration of certain advice , I leave to my daughter a further sum of ten thousand pounds . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It has n't done my reputation a whole lot of good either , ’ Polly blazed at him . |
| 14 | Excuse me , I must lift my cane and give my chaplain a good thwack across the knuckles . |
| 15 | ( I have just given my chaplain a good rap across the knuckles ; that will teach him to make remarks like , ‘ And Master Daunbey had good knowledge of fools , having you as a servant . ’ ) |
| 16 | ( We often sang in St Mary 's , Ipswich , my bass a good foil to Benjamin 's tenor . |
| 17 | ‘ Characterisation packages ’ are in my view a total irrelevance to drama and to education . |
| 18 | There is in my view a close analogy to the right to recover money paid under a contract the consideration for which has wholly failed . |
| 19 | She is a tyrant who numbers among her possessions a private menagerie of four hundred and nineteen fools , some grotesquely malformed , others as beauteous as the dawn . |
| 20 | There can be no doubt that the climate of Japan imposed on her artists a different attitude towards art problems . |
| 21 | The centre has as its base a large house in the village of Glencoe which is surrounded by fantastic mountains — ideal for skiing and mountaineering in the winter and for hillwalking in the summer . |
| 22 | Her face was flushed , her hair a tumbled mass on the pillow , her breathing quick and uneven , drawing attention to the rise and fall of her breasts . |
| 23 | The young woman opened her eyes and stared vaguely up at him , her hair a spilling mass of deep auburn . |
| 24 | Leonora lay gasping , arms outflung , eyes closed , her hair a tangled mass of damp curls against the pillow . |
| 25 | Her hair a wild tangle around her flushed face , she looked up at him helplessly , and the expression in his eyes made her heart somersault crazily . |
| 26 | And Beauty in her turn was sober , sensible , and one hundred per cent reliable — until the day she carefully picked up in her teeth a full bucket of water , and then just as carefully poured it over her owner 's head ! |
| 27 | Non-cumulative preference shares , by their nature , give their shareholders a preferential interest in the company 's profits for the year , and on liquidation of the company , after settlement of all creditors , entitle the holder to repayment of the nominal value of the shares before the ordinary shareholders are repaid . |
| 28 | The worshipping community here on earth was an outlying colony , its prayer a distant echo of the perfect and unceasing praise offered to God in heaven by his angels and his saints . |
| 29 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 30 | Where there is strong evidence of guilt , defendants given the benefit of the doubt by a jury in a criminal trial will be reluctant to chance their luck a second time by bringing a libel action . |