Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , this makes fishing for them a challenging business and it is one that absorbs a great many specialist anglers . |
| 2 | He accepts her porno past but demands from her a virtuous future . |
| 3 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
| 4 | And the very fact that the experience will never ever be repeated will make the remembrance burn for her a hundred times as bright . |
| 5 | In Take a girl like you a great sentence falls like the dew from heaven during one of the scenes in Amis when a terminally drunk man endures a sexual turmoil and fiasco , is stunned by a stunning but not very nice girl . |
| 6 | Across the aisle from me a young boy is telling his mother that he does n't like it . |
| 7 | During the meeting with him a few months before his death which was recorded in an article published in the London Review , Philip Roth found him as keen as mustard : here was someone who listened , with the intent stillness of a chipmunk . |
| 8 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 9 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 10 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 11 | I suppose that makes the rest of us a little bonkers . |
| 12 | Presently , as he sat by himself in a remote corner of the banqueting hall , he noticed on the wall beside him an ascending column of white ants ; as they reached the ceiling they spread their wings and slowly drifted down in a delicate living veil . |
| 13 | as much as anything , but it 's only cos you 're writing a letter , and you say oh hello you writing a letter to mum , he says no I killed her to come here , you do n't put your foot in it a big way , but after a while because you know nobody there is nice it really makes a lot of difference people |
| 14 | Suffolk police only discovered the court martial had taken place when officers read details of it a local newspaper . |
| 15 | But she was cooking and she was going you take , she goes , she goes , some people like it a little bit on the side , you know , with their food , some people on the side . |
| 16 | Following the new allegations against her a further action was taken . |
| 17 | Having 2 ex-county players on the team has also been very worthwhile with helpful tips being tried out every week ( as the Institute chaps will tell you , comparing our game with them a few weeks ago and the Charity Match just played — sorry David what was the score … ? ) |
| 18 | There was only one bathroom in the wing , the bath in it a classic example of early plumbing furniture . |
| 19 | During the evening she caught sight of him a few times , always dancing , holding his partners very close , and managing to avoid her eyes . |
| 20 | At first sight , Holly Aylett appears to have stumbled on the ideal Arena subject with her A Spanish Odyssey — A Portrait of Javier Mariscal ( BBC2 on Friday : 9.30–10.30 pm ) . |
| 21 | Steve Harper , haulage contractor , stood outside alone for a grateful crisp smokeless moment of silence , and when they opened the door to him a strange shadow of the night sidled in with him from prehistory . |
| 22 | At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees . |
| 23 | Yet its very pragmatism bears with it an inbuilt limitation . |
| 24 | ‘ I got a letter from him a few days later , sent to the travel agents . |
| 25 | Thornaby skipper Mike Priestley will be hoping he can repeat that feat for him a few times this season . |
| 26 | Social security appeal tribunals are categorized as the least formal of the tribunals investigated , but it is reported that appellants nevertheless found attendance before them a nerve-wracking ordeal . |
| 27 | And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise . |
| 28 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
| 29 | The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied . |
| 30 | If Belinda had been a more devious soul , she might have thought to suggest that Deana 's harping on the subject of Dr Russell spoke rather strongly of a crush on her side as well , but Belinda was n't devious , so she simply blushed even more and found on the desk in front of her a diabetic patient 's chart that suddenly needed her urgent attention . |