Example sentences of "[pron] a [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had another week before the Festival and we figured we could hitch ourselves a ride the last leg of the way on a fast freight loader from Exalfa City . ’ |
| 2 | The development of participative popular democracy both ‘ at work ’ and in a broader social context — in itself a distinction the sharpness of which socialists wish to reduce by such means as Marx 's ‘ polytechnic ’ education and the creation of closer links between industry and community . |
| 3 | It did sting me a bit the first time I used it but has n't since . |
| 4 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 5 | I do n't mind whether I 'm English or Irish , but the thing about this is that as I was there till I was about fifteen or sixteen , it rubbed off on me a lot the whole atmosphere of Ireland . |
| 6 | ‘ You called me a dog the first time you saw me , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ He gave me a fright the look of him . ’ |
| 8 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 9 | He send 's me a paper the old boy |
| 10 | When she had booked herself a room the clerk had suggested taking either a water-taxi or a vaporetto to the hotel . |
| 11 | On one occasion he suffered an uncontrollable ‘ outburst ’ during his sleep and reckoned it cost him a masterpiece the next morning . |
| 12 | I sent him a fax the next day and never heard from him again . ’ |
| 13 | Moynihan , once a junior minister , who had lost his seat at the election , had had the good fortune to buy her a drink the evening before and had suggested ‘ an exquisite light lunch ’ at Macau , the town 's only Portuguese restaurant . |
| 14 | But Guy dropped her a note the next day , inviting her to a reception at the mess . |
| 15 | He had told her a lot the previous night , too much for her to take in , but the salient points stuck out clearly in her mind . |
| 16 | Mandy Yachad and Mark Rushmere made half centuries and when both sides agreed to call it a day the Invitation XI had reached 129–1 . |
| 17 | Alright it you wan na call it a business the business is about provide social housing to answer housing need in this town . |
| 18 | Connoisseurs who heard tape copies were also suspicious of the vocal mannerisms ; but engineers at the National Sound Archive were able to declare it a forgery the moment they heard it , for an unassailable technical reason . |
| 19 | WHAT a spoilsport the Queen is for objecting to the Spitting Image royal puppets being displayed in the window of Liberty in London . |
| 20 | Miriam knew that people can die of erysipelas and when she saw what a state the Collector was in , rolling on the floor in delirium , his face red and swollen , she received an unpleasant shock . |
| 21 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 22 | Daunting as that may sound , it 's nothing to what a maker the size of Rover must go through to get an average family car into fully type-approved production . |
| 23 | What a busybody the man was ! |
| 24 | What a pity the ‘ off ’ switch does n't blank out the viewfinder — a fail-safe reminder adopted by most camera designers . |
| 25 | What a pity the local library did not have a record of the evening 's discussion . |
| 26 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 27 | What a pity the management allows bombers to ski out of control and spoil serious skiers ' pleasure by crashing into them ! |
| 28 | What a pity the vehicle has only two wheels . |
| 29 | What a pity the invitation had not been extended to someone more congenial , such as the ubiquitous Austin Mitchell . |
| 30 | Bingham 's men had reigned in the rain ; what a pity the deluge of good results had come too late to save the harvest . |