Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 2 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 3 | As I was sending a copy of the new book to all those slimmers who were mentioned in the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet , I decided to include with it a second questionnaire . |
| 4 | We are not claiming either that He has somehow implanted in us a sixth sense that gives us certainty He exists whilst our other five senses provide no such assurance . |
| 5 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
| 6 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 7 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |