Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complete the following : ‘ a ? \ @*; £ ! % beats as it sweeps as it cleans ’ ; ‘ a \ @*?; & a day helps you work rest and play ’ . |
| 2 | Similarly there is no liability if a railway company , acting upon A 's directions , carries B's goods , honestly believing that A has B's authority to give such directions or , of course , where a finder removes them to a place of safety . |
| 3 | There are seven discussion lists on the network including RESPONSE where a child makes her or his first introductory contact , and KIDCAFE and KIDACT where the discussion and dialogue occur . |
| 4 | People do not always observe the principle , of course , but where a speaker flouts it , the hearer will suspect she has a reason . |
| 5 | She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming . |
| 6 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 7 | Before they were due to begin , Eliot travelled once again to America — first to his birthplace St Louis , where a heatwave affected him disagreeably , and then on to Cambridge where he spent two weeks with his relatives before travelling to Connecticut and New York . |
| 8 | Children were carried shoulder-high to the road , where a bus took them to a seafront hotel . |
| 9 | Fr Cunningham was born in India and went to school in the North-East , where a priest suggested he consider going into the ministry . |
| 10 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 11 | A demand is made when and where a letter containing it is posted ( Treacy , by a 3:2 majority ) , and probably continues to be made until it is read by the victim ( Treacy 5:0 , but obiter ) . |
| 12 | A ticking off at school , or a beating left me encrusted with guilt . |
| 13 | When they 're still children a mother or a whore gives them a piece of broken mirror in which they trap a ray of the sun and reflect it into one of the Palace windows . |
| 14 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
| 15 | Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that . |
| 16 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 17 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 18 | These committed groups , or a committee to represent them , could appoint the auditors and receive their report . |
| 19 | " Not a town or a village have I missed , but nowhere have I found a twin boy and girl named Stoja and Stojane . |
| 20 | Or a bomb blew it off . ’ |
| 21 | Your determination to ‘ get it right ’ will impress far more than a false sense of confidence or a reluctance to admit you could do with assistance . |
| 22 | It is only when an action or a meeting moves us that we can find joy . |
| 23 | It was a command , not a question ; or a refusal to believe I could refuse again . |
| 24 | even if the church was And they 've cut all the side , the other side , Church Street they 've cut all the hedge of the church down there and dumped all the grass inside , no not the grass , the branches , inside well you 'd think they 'd get a blooming lorry or a van to take it all down the blooming tip would n't you ? |
| 25 | Intransigent as always , she had refused to allow either her maid or a groom to accompany her . |
| 26 | I do n't know if he hit his head or a bullet hit him . ’ |
| 27 | It may be lack of understanding of the appropriate diet or an inability to put it into practice . |
| 28 | Cos she was trying to find a , a reason or an excuse to sue them for it . |
| 29 | Whether he wanted to be hurt and suffer , or an excuse to hit me back , I do n't know , but I 'm sure he wanted me to hit him . |
| 30 | While there is trouble between Copt and Moslem he can not offer it to a Copt nor a Copt take it . ’ |