Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 2 | It results from a transfer which in bringing the beneficiary 's total of votes up to the quota almost inevitably provides him also with more votes than he needed . |
| 3 | But I have never shown a woman anything but respect . ’ |
| 4 | The loss of an efficient officer , however , was not to be accepted without protest by the captain who lost his services , and Captain Robert Digby , for example , protested in strong terms the impending transfer of Midshipman Callender from his ship to Captain Keith Stewart 's Berwick in 1778 , pointing out that ‘ this Mr. Callender I made a midshipman myself upon finding Sir Lawrence Dundas was his friend ’ and complained of ‘ Scotch captains being allowed to pick the quarterdecks of other ships without the captain 's consent … ’ |
| 5 | It was just that she was making a statement herself in dressing up . |
| 6 | Here is a Messiah who by becoming one of us knows all about human weakness , about human life and development . |