Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You looked beautiful , ’ he said after a pause that agonized them both . |
| 2 | The question really means : What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment ? |
| 3 | You can remove poor Flora from that sink of a school and send her to some nice nuns . ’ |
| 4 | You can either record this and play it back or stand in front of a friend and let them criticize and make helpful suggestions . |
| 5 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 6 | I WOULD rather take my children into the main bar or lounge of a pub and expect them to sit sensibly and reasonably quietly so that we can all relax , drink , talk and eat in a proper pub atmosphere . |
| 7 | Roman exclaimed in satisfaction and , turning into a wide drive , pulled up in front of a building that said it was a motor halt . |
| 8 | If you took all the cells of a swallow and put them together at random , the chance that the resulting object would fly is not , for everyday purposes , different from zero . |
| 9 | ‘ Stand in front of a mirror and rehearse them , ’ he instructed . |
| 10 | Jinny was so amazed that she stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence and let him say goodbye and make their apologies all over again . |
| 11 | A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea . |
| 12 | Then I would be an artisan , quietly learning my trade at the feet of a master and passing it on in turn to my apprentices . |
| 13 | Well I hope she 'll be interested enough to , but , not really before she 's six , cos I asked him last couple of times ago , he said , what sort of age , cos obviously the size of the hands comes into it , they ca n't do too much , but he said he would n't consider before six and you ough t 'a have to take the parents into consideration , of a child that age you got ta have a parent who 's prepared to sit there and make sure the child does what he 's set them to do , because , oh Amy , you not getting any out of that . |
| 14 | What is more , de Man argues , metaphor overcomes the opposition between inner repose and outer action because Marcel 's imagination gives him access to the outside world ; of a kind that allows him to possess it " much more effectively than if he had actually been present in an outside world that he could then have only known by bits and pieces " ( 1979 : 60 ) . |
| 15 | Did you have any experience of a kind that helped you before you came to drama school ? |
| 16 | For instance , you may like the look of a sofa but think it too small ; it may well come in other lengths from 137 cm to 229 cm ( 54 to 90 in ) . |
| 17 | In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 . |
| 18 | Oh he 'll get hold of a hedgehog and shake it and with that he 'll come out with prickles all on the end |
| 19 | They use a colourless paste which has no effect on the skin but has the peculiar property of altering the molecular structure of a metal and making it malleable . |
| 20 | In 1989 , a resident of Penghu , disgusted at the continuing slaughter of dolphins , had purchased some victims of a drive and released them . |
| 21 | ‘ Sometimes she says she 'll take the kids out to the middle of a lake and drop them in . |
| 22 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 23 | It was not the thought of a fall that worried her . |
| 24 | You then place it in the neck of a balloon and blow it up and tie it with the piece of paper inside . |
| 25 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 26 | Bring back Diary Of A Game and leave us poor old 64 owners alone . |
| 27 | InConcert automatically prompts and tracks all tasks in the workflow process to locate the right documents and software tools for each step of a project and deliver them at the right time to the right people . |
| 28 | Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer . |
| 29 | He 'd like to get hold of a gun and blow them all away . |
| 30 | But even on the floor , he can still take command of a situation and turn it to his advantage . |