Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just limped around gaining more sympathy from his students by hinting what a brute his wife was . |
| 2 | In such a case your report should be prepared at once , and the original instructions and any other documents sent to you by your mortgagee client , as well as your notes on title and the replies to requisitions , should be carefully perused . |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , it never occurred to the defendant that the victim was young or mentally abnormal , and he was not aware therefore that he was in a situation of potential risk , he should not be liable for rape providing that he took reasonable steps to ascertain that she did agree to vaginal penetration , for in such a case his conduct is reasonable in the light of the facts as he perceived them to be . |
| 4 | you can a bit its sort of it , you know the pub on the other side |
| 5 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 6 | A bit His Master 's Voice is n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ Anyway , I think it was a bit our fault , like . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it was after we 'd talked a bit and then played a bit our personalities seemed to go well together and our playing did as well . |
| 9 | The palace was several miles from the Legation and every time they topped a rise my parents saw the whole procession spread out in front and behind . |
| 10 | To Masters , this film is a vivid parable of the very notion of contamination and a badge our species wears with shame . |
| 11 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
| 12 | Liam made a debut his dad will have admired at Abergavenny earlier this month when he wrecked Wales schoolboys with a five-wicket haul in the first innings . |
| 13 | Each time a worker ploughed a field his status and even his self-respect could be at stake . |
| 14 | In a flash his hand had reached out to catch her chin again . |
| 15 | I 'm in bondage to him to the tune of three hundred guineas which he 's squeezing me for , crushing me to death like a snake its prey . ’ |
| 16 | A story my family loved ! |
| 17 | You will almost inevitably find , as you begin to think what sort of a story your police procedural might have , that if will have to be set in a city of some size . |
| 18 | When a group of female mice is placed with a male their oestrus cycles become synchronized and the majority of animals will mate on the third night . |
| 19 | quite a coincidence your experience of working in a children 's home |
| 20 | Although when viewed as part of a spectrum their distinctness is questionable , they typically function in widely different semantic fields , and within these their discreteness and stability are not in question . |
| 21 | A change your mind |
| 22 | And what a script our man on the Maastricht case came armed with … |
| 23 | And I heard how the music acquired a force his understanding lacked . |
| 24 | With a splash his hand left the whisky and found that of the intruder , arresting it in a grip that made the girl in the bath beside him wince . |
| 25 | If a character rides a monster its points value counts towards the army 's character point allowance and not the monster point allowance . |
| 26 | Note especially that if a character rides a monster its points value is included in the Character point allowance and not the Monster point allowance . |
| 27 | If a character rides a monster its points value is included in the points you are allowed to spend on characters and not the points you are permitted for monsters . |
| 28 | Does it throw a light your story needs on to her character ? |
| 29 | As a result their ex-pupils may compete better for those elite jobs which demand scientific credentials , while retaining the general socialisation we have described . |
| 30 | As a result their work required very little skill . |