Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months ago she sent me a letter , informing me that during a recent visit to All Saints church , Gresford , she had discovered that the church contained a standing stone . |
| 2 | I er I can only write it from a Jewish perspective , it 's the perspective I stand at , but it seems to me that beyond a few superficialities there is no such thing as Jewish spiritual truth any more than there is Jewish mathematical truth . |
| 3 | Ferguson explained : ‘ Lawrie told me that under a new regulation Ince must join the squad anyway . |
| 4 | On one occasion a man sat next to me and after a preliminary bit of footsie , he invited me to slip my hand into his pants . |
| 5 | These were doubtless satisfactory for the individuals who had collected them and for a short period of time , until perhaps superseded by rulings that were seen to be more appropriate . |
| 6 | The generations of Marxists who have lived through the grievous experience of Fascism and who , in another order of things , have experienced Stalinist degeneration , appraise the concept of democracy in a different way [ from Lenin ] , and not in opposition to socialism and communism , but as a road towards them and as a main component of them . |
| 7 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 8 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
| 9 | There is no liability under Sections 2 and 3 of this Policy for loss or damage by theft or attempted theft from the Home unless the following requirements are met by you or by a responsible person acting on your behalf : |
| 10 | Alcohol is a poor way of getting a long sleep as its diuretic effect wakes you because of a full bladder . |
| 11 | You are allowed to keep them but in a centred box . |
| 12 | He says it 's entirely the fault of the green man and he does n't approve of his ideas at all really and only backs them because of a natural wish to support his daughter . |
| 13 | You had no business to talk to her except through a qualified Steward … |
| 14 | Apart from reviews , nothing seemed to have been written about her except for a sympathetic article by Richard Strachey in the London Mercury . |
| 15 | Until Margaret 's frantic visit four days earlier she 'd resolved to apply herself assiduously to her job in an attempt to exorcise Marcus Pritchard from her memory entirely , and Denmark had meant nothing to her except as a dark finger of land on a map pointing upwards into the North Sea . |
| 16 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 17 | For Emerson I972 was a fine year : with a full season in FI behind him and with a winning car , he drove with assurance , confidence and verve , though still finicky if conditions were not favourable to him , as at Monaco in the rain . |
| 18 | Panic seized him and with a sudden curse he turned away from the wicket-gate of Clark 's Wharf and gestured at the others to get away . |
| 19 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 20 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 21 | The monument to Chaloner Chute , also designed by him and in a seventeenth-century classical style , was eventually erected after his death by his cousin T. L. Chute . |
| 22 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |
| 23 | Camb opened the door for her and with a crisp ‘ Good afternoon ’ she took her leave of them . |
| 24 | A loose stone unsteadied her and with a little cry of surprise , she fell . |
| 25 | He 'll have it off her and into a good Catholic home quick as blinking , the poor little basket , and you 'll not have sight nor sound of it , and nor the mother , I should n't think . ’ |
| 26 | Her best hope of surviving it successfully lies in your maturity and willingness to act as a temporary crutch for her and as a quiet stabilising influence until she learns how to walk alone and unaided . |
| 27 | I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street . |
| 28 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 29 | Whatever the reasons for these changes , be they because of a hostile government , new technology or the European dimension , we must respond and change if we are to survive as a creditable organization . |
| 30 | Therefore property passed to him when after a reasonable length of time he had failed to object . |