Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 2 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 3 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 4 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 5 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 6 | I have always been very conscious of this because the last aircraft I flew as a regular airline pilot were the old Douglas DC-6 B and the Convair 340 . |
| 7 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 8 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 9 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 10 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 11 | One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe . |
| 12 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 13 | He smiled , a gleam in his eyes she recognised with a sharp pang . |
| 14 | Her cheeks were rosy from the exercise ; with her pointed features and sparkling eyes she looked like an amiable , wholesome witch . |
| 15 | The Niue People 's Action Party ( NPAP ) , Niue 's only formal political association ( which was strongly opposed to the leadership of Sir Robert Rex who had dominated politics since Niue became self-governing ) , made gains with the victory of sympathizers including Tauveve Jacobsen , who retained the seat she won in a 1989 by-election , and Sani Lakitani , the founder of the NPAP . |
| 16 | On one side we looked into a vast ravine . |
| 17 | The day after the Dent Blanch we indulged in a prolonged breakfast of copious coffee , yesterday 's paper and a plateful of croissants before joining the tourist throng on the Montenvers railway . |
| 18 | To Joseph 's startled ears they sounded like a simultaneous volley of a thousand rifle shots . |
| 19 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 20 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 21 | He thought always much too easily , in highly unrealistic terms , of the peoples he ruled as a mere aggregate of individuals face to face with an absolute State . |
| 22 | As he reached the parked sports car he went into a rolling dive , still clutching his leg , and bounced himself off the bonnet and over the other side . |
| 23 | To his right wing the Zoo stretched away in the distance ; Three Island Pond he recognized as a paler shape than the rest with lights on the paths around to mark it out ; the Cages were in front of it with several Men around them . |
| 24 | In 1979 , he was elected MP for Putney , south-west London , the seat he held with an increased majority last Thursday despite predictions that he faced defeat . |
| 25 | After tea he dozed through an old Peter Sellers film at the King 's Road Classic , dined off a biriani , dozed through an old Tati film at the Baker Street Classic , and crept upstairs to his flat just in time to meet Mounce coming downstairs from his den . |
| 26 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 27 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 28 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 29 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 30 | From anger and animosity he turned in a split second to a benevolent caring brother only here to see justice done . |