Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the sea is calm I turn in to a narrow cleft on the headland , cutting the engine and gliding in between the faces of grey rock to let my passengers get the flavour of the sights and sounds of a Shetland geo . |
| 2 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 3 | While in command of Venturous I missed out on a lot of the big drug operations through being in the north of Scotland , but I always enjoyed working as part of a team with the other cutters or any of the shore units . |
| 4 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 5 | Then he worked as garden boy at Ballykilcavan , but in the winter of 1860–1 he left abruptly after a quarrel . |
| 6 | Evans is convinced it ended up with a better dealer than it started with , and has £2m of cash to play with . |
| 7 | Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis . |
| 8 | Christina had n't seen Martin for about six months , since Stephen had made it plain how much he objected even to a friendship between them . |
| 9 | 7 He ends up in a weak position , open to many follow-up techniques . |
| 10 | it 's so inflammable you go anywhere near a naked flame sorry flame |
| 11 | And if you do that you end up with a rhombus which is a squashed |
| 12 | I was lucky I went straight into a trusty 's job , and I could work at weekends as well , and I earned good money : £2.63 a week . |
| 13 | No I do n't think so , everybody 's disappointed , especially after the way we played in the first half , but erm on our second half performance , I suppose we can just count ourselves lucky we come away with a point . |
| 14 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 15 | If you look too hard it disappears altogether into a kind of wistful , disappointed light in the night sky . |
| 16 | By the time he was 21 he worked full-time as a comedy writer , writing material for the American TV show The Smothers Brothers . |
| 17 | In 1904 he met up with a man named Blaney , and Young Buffalo was born . |
| 18 | If he is not the greatest gloveman the game has known , he is a very successful wicket-keeper-batsman ; in his first two Tests in Australia in 1981–2 he appeared solely as a batsman before taking over from David Murray , and by the end of the 1989–90 series he had played in 68 Tests , made 223 dismissals ( a miserly five stumpings tells a sad tale ) and scored almost 3,000 runs at an average of 35 with five centuries . |
| 19 | Of a sudden he sat down in a chair and Joe , looking at him , had a strange thought , for his mind was saying that if men could cry , Martin would be crying now . |
| 20 | The cheesemakers are quite happy to share their secrets , so make sure you come away with a few useful recipes , such as those for making Appenzell cheese tarts , Appenzell Rosti , Appenzell cheese pillows , cheese souffle and Appenzellerei , a luscious blend of ham pork , onions , parsley and cheese . |
| 21 | Make sure you lean back through a curved spine and rock off the heel of your hands for added support . |
| 22 | First of all you started off with a reference to P P G twelve , and I fear my pen was n't fast enough to note down the paragraph number , perhaps you could remind me ? |
| 23 | Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did . |
| 24 | 3 She follows through with a palm heel strike . |
| 25 | 6 She follows through with an elbow strike . |
| 26 | Three twelfths good and can you remember how many twelfths you got out of a half ? |
| 27 | No sulks from United they came back with a bounce … and this should have been 2-1 … the run and shot was down to Chris Pike but the referee gave off-side against Pickard who was minding his own business … bad decision |
| 28 | In Italy his partner was the surrogate Scot , Joe Baker ; at Manchester United he teamed up in a devastating triumvirate with George Best and Pat Crerand , and at international matches he was part of a group of wayward senior players including Billy Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone . |
| 29 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 30 | The cottage was so small it looked more like a doll 's house than a human dwelling . |