Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you collect a wide range of them , some of them or just a few of them ? |
| 2 | It seems to me that quite a few of our senior British players have had to put up with more than their fair share of criticism in recent years , when perhaps a bit of encouragement might have been more appropriate . |
| 3 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 4 | When I reminded them that only an hour ago they were saying they did n't fancy any more , they looked genuinely irritated . |
| 5 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 6 | That 's one house that adjoins them and then a little further on it 's a lane . |
| 7 | Well , there are next door neighbours , who I think are very nice , but I do n't think that Jackie and Ned got a lot in common with them that 's , tha that 's one house that adjoins them and then a little further on , its a lane , its about as wide as this Brenda . |
| 8 | During the trial seven other women revealed that he had also assaulted them and afterwards a senior detective said that Courtney could have abused 100 women . |
| 9 | It is great to be around friends who have never had a weight problem and find that I have a lot more energy than them and certainly a lot more breath ! |
| 10 | There was a buzz of expectation about them and quite a few seemed to be smiling and jolly . |
| 11 | Alyssia took a deep breath to steady her nerves , and then said unsteadily , ‘ Nicole is more to you than just a friend , is n't she ? |
| 12 | Newspapers , journalists do n't just work office hours , I know they 'd like to but they , they I do n't let them but also a tremendous problem that they that that that you are always tied up in meetings and things during the day , you know , so make sure , try and develop personal contacts so you 've got a decent personal contact when you do n't mind giving your home number to someone . |
| 13 | It was almost directly in front of them but still a good distance away . |
| 14 | He remembered the admiring glances of the other boys , and the expression of ineffable contempt on the face of the young Hilary Frome , an expression that told him that even an eleven-year-old could see through him , could tell he was no good . |
| 15 | But at 17 stone , the health authority 's told her that only a 20-inch chair will do . |
| 16 | Rourke was more to her than just an employer . |
| 17 | Wilson saw Henry Barrett in him and even a flash of his Grandfather Barrett . |
| 18 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 19 | Hrun heard the scrabble of claws behind him and then an ominous thump . |
| 20 | He had not realized the impact on him until nearly a year later he found himself shaking and crying and saying to himself , ‘ I was nearly killed there ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , we waited for him but then a pedlar brought in his corpse . |
| 22 | I know that girl , know her as only a mother can , and I know she 's not well . |
| 23 | He had thought of her as essentially a private woman who would be very little concerned with her neighbours or their problems . |
| 24 | He gave him as sharp a look as he dared . |
| 25 | There was more to it than just a change of style . |
| 26 | It implies there 's something more to it , more to it than just a standard bug I must say . |
| 27 | And carpet all round it and just a |
| 28 | When the fins of fossil specimens are carefully dissected , the lobes at the base are found to be supported by one stout bone close to the body , two bones joined to it and finally a group of small bones — the pattern that is found in the limbs of all land vertebrates . |
| 29 | So be it and probably a very good thing . |
| 30 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |