Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can imagine the population of th , of a nearby town , every now and again they would come down and perhaps throw some food over in this man 's direction a loaf of bread , a , a a a a a a , a hunk of meat or , some other food every now and again so he would keep alive . |
| 2 | Horror brings Eliot 's chorus a sense of unnatural reversion which earlier he had found associated with anthropological discussions and had detected behind Lawrence 's ‘ explanation of the civilised by the primitive ’ sending his characters back ‘ to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution ’ . |
| 3 | A few weeks later and quite unrelated to David 's experience a group of children from a neighbouring village made their way over the fields for a walk with their dogs . |
| 4 | So Katie Jane from Daisy Chainsaw has plasters on her newly-shaven head from where she collided with Crispin Gray 's guitar a couple of nights earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ IT IS A REGION more difficult to traverse than the Alps or the Himalayas , but if strength and courage are sufficient for the task , by a year 's toil a concept of sublimity can be obtained never again to be equalled on the hither side of Paradise . ’ |
| 6 | He repeatedly uses the pronoun ‘ She ’ along with ‘ her ’ and describes the train 's movements such as ‘ bouncing ’ which one would normally only connect with human activity but here it enables one to envisage in one 's mind a picture of a regal figure ‘ gliding like a queen ’ down the tracks of the railway . |
| 7 | Early on in the present government 's administration a representative of Fabius warned that if research was to get the money it required , other ministries would suffer . |
| 8 | By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table . |
| 9 | Under Henstock 's guidance a group of local historians plotted information from the 1851 census enumerators ' books on the near-contemporary tithe award map and filled out the picture from newspapers and other sources . |
| 10 | MacLachlan successfully obtained through Milton 's aid a delay in a foreclosure by the Royal Bank , and the freeholder hoped to persuade the politician to continue to stand between him and his creditors because of the value of his vote to the Argyll interest , arguing that |
| 11 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 12 | In the case of Re Pogue , the court declined to make the patient 's refusal based on her belief as a Jehovah 's Witness a basis for declaring her incompetent to decide for herself . |
| 13 | The Conservative 's plan a continuation of current training programmes for the long-term unemployed together with a new initiative in conjunction with the Training and Enterprise Councils giving people a voucher with which they can buy a ‘ skill check ’ , providing guidance on how to make the most of their working lives . |
| 14 | In Paul Guillaume 's gallery a book on African sculpture was selling for fifty francs in 1917 ; it was a book Modigliani would have prized , but at the cost of three days ' subsistence plus one meal , it was out of the question . |
| 15 | Since Ebrahimi was decided , s 459 of the Companies Act 1985 has added to the minority shareholder 's armoury a claim of ‘ unfair prejudice ’ , but only in so far as the conduct ( actual or threatened ) that he complains of is prejudicial to him in his capacity as a member . |
| 16 | The woman was reprimanded for " a heap of lies " and told she was entitled to nothing unless " we liked to give her daughter 's child a pair of shoes " . |
| 17 | The most spectacular example of the stage depicted in Fig. 9.12A is provided by Symond 's Yat on the northern margin of the plateau , but comparable conditions occur within the gorge itself , at Tintern Parva in the middle of the gorge and near Wintour 's Leap a couple of miles north of Chepstow . |
| 18 | He pushed across Wickham 's desk a scrap of paper on which he had jotted the number of the building the man went into . |
| 19 | Following Bennett 's withdrawal a number of other candidates had been unsuccessfully approached until Yeutter was offered the post on Jan. 3 . |
| 20 | Already there existed in Braque 's work a dialogue between objects and the tactile space in which they were embedded ; now , in Picasso 's work and subsequently in Braque 's , there was initiated a dialogue between the subject matter and the highly abstract way in which it was rendered . |
| 21 | He wound up at Kemp 's place a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | England last played Poland in Poznan last November , when Gary Lineker 's goal 13 minutes from time earned Taylor 's team a place in the European Championship finals . |
| 23 | Injury and suspension could now give Walter Smith 's team a vulnerability on two fronts that tests even their noticeable capacity for ignoring logic and achieving results that fly in the face of realism . |
| 24 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 25 | Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes , and stuffed omelettes , and steak pies with lovely gravy:I have in my mind 's eye a picture of her , sitting in a corner with some child on her lap , and the usual dreamy expression on her face . |
| 26 | It was of no help to her inner disquiet , as she left her room , that she saw in her mind 's eye a picture of the aristocratic-looking Ven Gajdusek . |
| 27 | After fierce and bloody struggles on sea and on land in which much noble blood was spilled , alas , we were able to declare the day ours and the Battle of Sloop 's Bight a chapter in the history of God 's kingdom come . |
| 28 | May I draw to my hon. Friend 's attention a report in the Sunday Express pointing out that paramilitaries convicted of bombing and murder are sheltering in the Republic are drawing more than £2 million per week in dole money and social security , paid for by the British taxpayer , while many would face reconviction if they returned to Ulster ? |
| 29 | At the time of Chamlong 's announcement a number of other opposition figures had launched hunger strikes in protest at Suchinda 's appointment , but none were of Chamlong 's stature . |
| 30 | As the pick-pocket 's hand pulled out his victim 's wallet a voice from the caravan behind Estabrook said : |