Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rabbit 's breeding chamber is some 4 or 5 feet ( 1.25 – 1.5 metres ) long and the young are born in a nest of hair where they stay for a month . |
| 2 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
| 3 | Doug reaches intermittently into his crisp packet and feeds them into his mouth where they blend into a rubbery combination of mixed mash . |
| 4 | Consider each impasse that you meet as a stepping stone along the path to eventual happiness and fulfilment . |
| 5 | erm it 's it reminds me of the kind of embarrassments that we experience on a number of levels actually . |
| 6 | Er and similarly the syntax of languages are often said to be oppressive of women , a lot of the way that language is structured and a lot of the words that you get in a language , that 's another thing that 's said . |
| 7 | It was therefore with a quickening of the blood that I read of a builder in Birmingham who has torn down his house in order to erect something bigger , and inadvertently left his neighbour 's previously attached semi teetering sideways . |
| 8 | We suggest that there is considerable evidence in the data that they present for a downward pressure on referral rates , most noticeably in women ( perhaps particularly in elderly women ) and to the specialty of general medicine . |
| 9 | We continue now along the Rua da Carreira , past the many small restaurants and bread and cake shops until we come to a street on the right called Rua do Quebra Costas which will take us to the English Church , hidden behind a high wall in a large garden . |
| 10 | We have to live with uncertainty and we have to a far more adaptable than previous generations . |
| 11 | They are hard up , you know , heavens they 're run they drive a crapped out , clapped out old car and they live in a ghastly little bungalow in the middle of nowhere . |
| 12 | Nursing staff on some of those areas that we would pick out — those would be the intensive care units , the children 's units , the delivery suites and special care baby units — the nursing staff actually have control of permits which they can issue to relatives who are going to be here for a great length of time , and if they so feel that these relatives should n't be charged , they give them a permit and they park in a staff area at no charge whatsoever . |
| 13 | It 's to provide , to provide people with the opportunity use the wipes if they require as a safety precaution . |
| 14 | According to Professor Dick van Velzen , Royal Liverpool Children 's Hospital , UK , these changes may be important in the aetiology of SIDS because they occur in an area involved in the control of breathing , heart rate , and temperature . |
| 15 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 16 | Having consumed two lengthy paragraphs of structural information , the reader is assured , " All this provides useful information which we need to keep in mind as we move towards a more linguistic analysis of the poem " . |
| 17 | Orientate this drawing as you do with a map when flying . |
| 18 | TSB invite readers to attend Saturday 's local County finals , which take place at the Bebington Oval , to cheer on Merseyside 's budding Christies and Gunnells as they fight for a place in the Merseyside team . |
| 19 | you 're always having a fag when I pull into a petrol station |
| 20 | ‘ You 're so beautiful , how can you be so callous of another woman 's unhappiness when you look like an angel direct from heaven ? ’ |
| 21 | Here are some attractive places to bear in mind when you feel like a day 's outing . |
| 22 | You get this effect when you gaze through a file of London trees in winter , and the naked branches criss and cross until only motes of light remain , in peeping triangles . |
| 23 | It is probably the case that we live in a time when the cultural return of homosexuality exacerbates , even intensifies , the psychic return of repressed homosexuality . |
| 24 | A small orchestra was playing ‘ Lights of Moscow ’ and the waiters were clattering metal dishes and semaphoring with table napkins , and there was the air of subdued hysteria that you get in a big theatre when the orchestra is tuning up . |
| 25 | The hours that you put into a case are therefore of the utmost importance . |
| 26 | The next two chapters use case studies to expand the framework that they provide for an appreciation of the variety among places , without explicit recognition of the interactions with the physical and built environments ( although both are implicit , especially in the first ) . |
| 27 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 28 | It will take a matter of minutes once they get into a routine . |
| 29 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 30 | I think we have to remember at all times that we belong to a profession in which there can not be qualifications . |