Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | quite a coincidence your experience of working in a children 's home |
| 2 | The first project was a film on Scapa Flow made with a director whose talent in obtaining striking images of light on water , cloud formation , or reeds bending in the wind I had greatly admired in his previous work . |
| 3 | Consider the case of a person whose reason for accepting his friend 's advice is that the friend will be hurt if he does not . |
| 4 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |
| 5 | The young Russian trader with his brown holland suit almost obscured by coloured patches , a youth whose courage in venturing into the dark interior of Africa is viewed with astonished admiration by Conrad 's foremost narrator , Marlow , belongs to the familiar heroic convention : |
| 6 | The cultural practice of imitation which Herbert so confidently exploits ( note how the Jordan poem above skilfully employs Sidney 's first sonnet in Astrophil and Stella was rendered very difficult for a poet such as An Collins whose scope for enjoying the educated attainments open to a Renaissance gentleman was negligible . |