Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the atom is nothing like this ( for example , electrons are likely to be nothing more than ‘ confluences of probability waves ’ — in other words , totally incomprehensible in everyday terms ) , yet what do you think of when you think of an atom ? |
| 2 | He gave me a sudden grin , purple mouth full of little , ivory bits like when you cut into a pomegranate and he was gone . |
| 3 | For now we see through a glass , darkly : but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then I shall know even as also I am known . ’ ' |
| 4 | What you are under the surface plays an important part in how you respond to a variety of human circumstances . |
| 5 | Oh , apart from when they ask for a ‘ tad ’ more/less bass in the drum monitors . |
| 6 | With these types of horses , try to sit very lightly and note how they work on the lunge without the weight on their back compared to how they work under a rider . |
| 7 | You know how it is on ferries — you get a bit disoriented , you never know if you 're on A deck or B deck , or which bit of the outside you 're getting to when you go through a door — the front , the stern , or the sides . |
| 8 | That brass ring at her neck , attached to the zip all the way down that dress , like the ring you hold on to when you leap from a plane , plunging in free fall till you dare no more , then you pull the ring down , down and float in airy freedom , master of all you survey . |
| 9 | Our views , however , were kept to where they belong in a quality newspaper . |
| 10 | Irritation can also be caused by inflammation such as when we suffer from a cold or allergy . |
| 11 | Every so often , we are startled , such as when we read of an expatriate black South African who longs for apartheid : ‘ At least in South Africa I knew what I was fighting against . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh well , at least I look like a doctor ! |