Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not new to us , it is a connected memory that we are trying to revive to popularise its varied usage . |
| 2 | It was a moody holiday and I followed the roads ; some of them led me aright and some astray . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , he had cast the Marshal a grateful look when he saw him standing there as promised , watching with his big , slightly bulging eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ It 'd be a historic showdown and I 'd love to take part in it . |
| 5 | It 's very important to recognize that York although a historic city as I mentioned er in the previous discussion , erm is a er is an industrial city with a significant number of employment problems , in particular in the rail engineering industry where we see a rapid er contraction of er what was Brown which is now A B B , clearly continuing problems in the rail industry with the er problems most certainly caused by privatization and also major job reductions in er firms such as Rowntrees and Terrys in the confectionery industry . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant thought that he could have been listening to , and taping , our conversations . ’ |
| 7 | To start from Dalwhinnie means a huge walk along the northern shore of Loch Ericht , and possibly an overnight stop at Culra bothy at the base of Carn Dearg , not a pleasant thought when you remember that bothies are always full of smelly men , in even smellier sleeping-bags . |
| 8 | The police driver asked for her documents but the woman explained , with a pleasant smile that they were at her home nearby . |
| 9 | The road heads north-west following the coast of Loch Torridon and passing occasional habitations and the village of Kenmore ; this is situated on a pleasant bay where there is another fish hatchery . |
| 10 | It was a pleasant afternoon and my thoughts were on In Salah one hundred and eighty miles away . |
| 11 | Well , no smugglers on Fair Isle but it had been a pleasant interlude and we headed back to Venturous with yet another " first " notched up in our visitor 's book . |
| 12 | young fawn — a pleasant moment till I saw |
| 13 | And er it , it 's much pleasanter to work and to look at a pleasant environment than something that , that is n't . |
| 14 | His voice was now re-forming into a pleasant tenor and his clamp of a memory could breeze him through Welsh songs and hymns , music-hall ditties and comic specialities half the night . |
| 15 | Let's hope it 's still a pleasant place when we leave it . ’ |
| 16 | Let's hope it 's still a pleasant place when we leave it . ’ |
| 17 | It was genuine amusement , and rather a pleasant sound if you were in the mood for humour . |
| 18 | The might before in the hotel lounge , with his wife , Lonnie , beside him , bemusedly aghast , he grilled a pleasant waitress until he knew how many tips she got each week , how many children she had , the frequency of men hitting on her and the general contour of her reality . |
| 19 | She believes that there is nothing worse than marry without any affection but on the other hand it would be very absurd Lady Bertram points out to Fanny that it is every woman 's duty to marry a rich man but she is blinded to the fact that this is not the only improvement that can take place in a marriage . |
| 20 | ‘ I would be a rich man if I could . |
| 21 | How do you know he 's a rich man and what do you class what do yo , what do you base in rich ? |
| 22 | Toulouse would be a rich prize and it would have been foolish to allow the claim to drop . |
| 23 | So much so that I was ready for a rich joke when my family got home from their various doings that birthday evening . |
| 24 | ‘ Is it because she 's from a rich family and my brother 's only a mechanic ? ’ |
| 25 | It is not easy to identify , because it lies in a rich area and there are no convenient guides to it . |
| 26 | The Charter is obviously a catch-all instrument and you will appreciate that not all of the clauses can apply to a Regional Council . |
| 27 | A bus firm 's had to cancel services because its drivers are too ill to work … and Swindon Town have called off a reserve match because they 're down to just 6 fit players . |
| 28 | In the studies with gastrin and its analogues an often uncontrolled variable has been gastric acid secretion , although the presence of gastric acid is not essential for a colonic response as it is not abolished by total gastrectomy . |
| 29 | People all the time wish to pigeon-hole you … to say that I am totally a chat-show host or I am entirely a serious headmistress figure . |
| 30 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |