Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Social Democrats analysed Russia as partly an Asiatic mode of production , a position denounced by Lenin , who insisted on the fully capitalist character of the Russian economy and hence its ripeness for socialist agitation . |
| 2 | Dos Passos described Madeira as both a Paradise and a prison . |
| 3 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 4 | ‘ I still think you should try marrying Peg , ’ Fred said , starting for the door and giving Arthur as sharp a seizure as he had ever had of longing and hatred for an ally who was deserting him to go to sleep . |
| 5 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 6 | Matiba , a former Cabinet minister , had left Kenya after almost a year in detention [ see p. 37603 for his arrest in July 1990 ] . |
| 7 | So make London as nice a place to run as it can be to visit . |