Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh was watching them suspiciously from a nearby table . |
| 2 | Puritans like Harley and Dowsing regarded altars , statues , paintings , and stained glass not as aids to religious devotion , but as positive dangers to men 's souls , and they reacted to them rather as a modern-day Jew might do to a beautifully sculpted or painted swastika . |
| 3 | His doe has a litter and she was making a noise over them rather like a robin in autumn . |
| 4 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 5 | She turned Florence into the field and stood over the milk pails , stirring them slowly with a hazel stick . |
| 6 | It is also quick enough to get me somewhere in a hurry if I 'm called out on an emergency . |
| 7 | I think things have changed quite dramatically in the last few years certainly , we admit very few people and we see them mostly as an outpatient . |
| 8 | This was to draw the ‘ poor ’ and ‘ middle ’ peasants away from the private trade of the ‘ rich ’ and to turn them eventually towards an alliance ( smychka ) with urban inhabitants . |
| 9 | I was a convent-educated girl and he teased me mercilessly with a string of sexual connotations . ’ |
| 10 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 11 | I 'll judge marmosets if you catch me nicely in a weak moment on the end of a moribund week . |
| 12 | Sun readers will not become Times readers simply because the latter is somehow ‘ superior ’ ; they are Sun readers because it ‘ serves ’ them better in a complex social and psychological way . |
| 13 | Many have a dread of something happening that will plunge them suddenly into a situation of near-poverty , and a few also unconsciously use their financial problems as pegs on which to hang their much deeper fears concerning their health and their future , which they may find hard to face . |
| 14 | Her youth blazed at them suddenly like a torch kindled , a thin , bright , deeply-moulded face all pearl-tinted skin over abrupt , burnished bone , with a wide , firm , full-lipped mouth , and dark eyes . |
| 15 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 16 | He went into the kitchen and returned with a plate of local delicacies which he offered me together with a little plate , a napkin and a finger-bowl . |
| 17 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 18 | Communication policies are changing rapidly , yet there is a need to assess them constantly from an ethical perspective . |
| 19 | The size and weight of the larger models would suit them only for a fairly hefty boat . |
| 20 | When , and only when , the paper and the paint have completely dried , I emphasise the highlights by rubbing over them gently with a typewriter eraser , the variety which can be sharpened to a point to increase accuracy . |
| 21 | When , and only when , the paper and the paint have completely dried , I emphasise the highlights by rubbing over them gently with a typewriter eraser , the variety which can be sharpened to a point to increase accuracy . |
| 22 | He took off his spectacles and polished them thoughtfully with a red snuff-handkerchief . |
| 23 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 24 | ‘ I said to Bernie if they were mine I 'd want to take them inside on a night . |
| 25 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |
| 26 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 27 | If they are smaller , staple them together as a pad for rough calculations . |
| 28 | They are given a time , but they never do , if you er , there 's no way you 're gon na get them together as a group for that time |
| 29 | In competition a sailor has to perform a three minute routine , performing as many tricks as he can and linking them together with a smooth flowing act . |
| 30 | He watched Tom lift two more saucepans from the range and empty them together with a handful of salt into the tub . |