Example sentences of "[noun] in a [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know it might land on her her bed , see if it landed on our bed at least you can chuck the blankets off and protect her and take her out of the room , but when she 's in her own bedroom in a single bed you ca n't , you ca n't do things like that . |
| 2 | His mouth opened slightly , her tongue touched his upper lip once , then slipped away again ; she kissed him quickly on the cheek and turned , walked to a doorway , fumbling for a key in a small purse she took from her old fur coat . |
| 3 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 4 | The dark cream also sets off the bright red roses well — had I chosen a white satin , card or fabric in a similar shade it would have been too bright and could have detracted from the frame . |
| 5 | India has a number of diseases all her own , but if there is any suggestion that a foreign filly has been on the loose in a British stud she is rejected as unclean . |
| 6 | He points out that when John uses that term in a negative sense it is with ‘ specific reference not to the whole of culture , but to a particular use of that culture by the forces of evil . ’ |
| 7 | If a church has grown to a membership of 300 and wishes to send one of its leaders and several of its members to start a new and similar flourishing work in a neighbouring area it may meet with problems . |
| 8 | When people move house to take up residence in a new community they are likely to be more open to change in other areas of their life . |
| 9 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
| 10 | She put four mince pies in a little basket she 'd decorated earlier when she made the other table decorations , put on her coat and was out of the back door in a flash . |
| 11 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |
| 12 | When kept as individuals in a mixed community they can bully other smaller species but they are in the main more peaceable than the average marine fish . |
| 13 | Hiding from the rain in a smoky bar we missed the twelve o'clock chiming of the Town Hall clock . |
| 14 | He checked her name in a large directory he pulled out from under the desk . |
| 15 | The course involves a range of physically challenging activities including a gruelling assault In a follow-up programme they go potholing , canoeing and parachute jumping . |
| 16 | In addition , if a property owner is manufacturing and selling goods in a competitive market he will be obliged to produce any given level of output of those goods at the lowest cost possible . |
| 17 | I hypothesise that if I move and turn the lamp in a particular way I will get the result I want . |
| 18 | And hopefully the business as a whole in a competitive environment they can be more responsive more flexible to new requirements as they come along . |
| 19 | Private ownership is also justified because by permitting individual property owners to pursue their own self-interest in a competitive market it is argued that we achieve an optimal allocation of society 's resources . |
| 20 | Twenty-two women , eight washbasins , two toilets , it 's just impossible ; twenty minutes to do all that and bunk your bed as well , and if you 're sleeping in a bunk in a crowded room you 're falling over each other trying to fold your sheets and blankets at the same time . |
| 21 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 22 | But the target of Mrs Thatcher 's wrath was equally well known when the day after the budget in a public speech she said : ‘ Now what really gets me is … that those who are most critical of the extra taxes are those who were most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure . ’ |
| 23 | A DRIVER drank so much beer and whisky in a day-long binge he was still five times over the limit 24 hours later . |
| 24 | Many couples continue to enjoy sexual intercourse once or twice a week into old age , but some people have neither the inclination or ability for this , and of course in a long relationship we do adjust to our partner 's needs . |
| 25 | He at least , unlike his superiors in ideology in Moscow had the courage to revise his stereotyped class views in a second book he published in 1924 . |
| 26 | Having just finished a talk to a class of candidates for the ministry in a major denomination I was ‘ verbally assaulted ’ by the principal of the theological college concerned who picked up on a brief reference I made to Creation and Evolution and proceeded to state in the strongest possible terms that many true Christians believe in the theory of evolution and reject the biblical account of a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis . |
| 27 | Furlong is correct , however , in suggesting that anxiety was rife , and because of this and establishment obsessions with a belief in a statistical truth we were constantly being asked to give numerical estimates of how many there were ‘ out there ’ who were ‘ fixing ’ , ‘ using the weed ’ , or ‘ dropping acid ’ . |
| 28 | But if we try to use the same two adjectives with the same two nouns in a predicative construction we shall find that the result is ungrammatical : ( 49 ) that rival was possible those two sailors are occasional As in other instances , it is not enough merely to record that possible , occasional and certain other adjectives are ungrammatical in predicative position when constructed with certain nouns . |
| 29 | The second problem was her aversion to handing out money to charity ; although she enjoyed being able to help specific ventures in a practical way she hated the idea of charity balls or making large cash handouts . |
| 30 | Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover . |