Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [det] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was like a young dog , the kind her mother scorned , and she could only leap and lick after a blow such as he had fetched her . |
| 2 | In the case of a patient such as you describe , this can be done by providing community nursing care to the patient 's own home , by providing in-patient care or by a contractual arrangement with an independent sector home ( ie paid for in full by the health authority ) . |
| 3 | She was aware of a past neither of them had spoken of much — at least , not while she 'd been there . |
| 4 | Erm , in terms of communication up an organisation if that does n't sound to rude but erm okay , from the bottom of the organisation to the top of the organisation , there 's a hell of a lot less of it , okay ? |
| 5 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 6 | I do not like to think of an intelligence such as yours being wasted , Mr Arkwright . ’ |
| 7 | John Craddock Ltd ( 05435 77207 ) are the only people I know who manufacture forward facing rear seats for a vehicle such as yours . |
| 8 | Why is the case for a Parliament such as we propose now so strong ? |
| 9 | The Scat , Scatophagus argus , is adaptable to all water types , but would be unsuitable for a system such as you suggest , for they prefer hard , neutral , to strongly alkaline water . |
| 10 | For a moment neither of them spoke . |
| 11 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 12 | Well for a start half of them , the shape of them is n't very conven it 's not very good for ar arranging things . |
| 13 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 14 | As a result much of it had to be stored in a continuously digesting system , so a large torso was needed . |
| 15 | ‘ This man Siward : how can he hope to hold Lothian , so far from York and from Durham , with a strength such as yours massed to the north of him ? |
| 16 | Tomorrow Aileen Taylor begins a two part investigation into a problem many of us have encountered . |
| 17 | Preparatory men in because if you took a body of men into a bakery half of them would be standing looking about doing nothing until something was prepared . |
| 18 | I feel sorry for people that are dumped into a civilisation such as ours and they are taking the sticky end of the stick in these low-rated factories . |
| 19 | Yes , surely the shot putt would be the ideal event for an athlete such as me . |
| 20 | well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ? |
| 21 | The omission of the verb gives an immediacy which would be missing from a construction such as It is a virgin scene ( where the present tense is a direct attempt to make a coding time and content time the same ) . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ In a company such as ours there is a huge reservoir of potentially valuable information simply lying around untapped , maybe in someone 's head or gathering dust in a file somewhere . |
| 23 | . ’ Her words were cut off when his mouth covered hers , but when she clawed at him , one of his hands caught her wrists and held them and in a voice such as he had never used before , a deep moaning voice , he said , ‘ It 'll be all right . |
| 24 | In a society such as ours , populations more likely to be controlled in part through criminalization , |
| 25 | In a society such as ours , based on oral tradition , we must use our cultural expressions as a means of getting messages across and transform attitudes on basic issues . ’ |
| 26 | Does the Minister understand that what he has just said underlines the public 's high regard for search and rescue services provided by the Royal Air Force , particularly in a constituency such as mine , where RAF Leuchars is situated ? |
| 27 | " in a school such as ours where the teaching has distinct literary and mathematical pretensions and in which school hours are shorter than is the case in some parts of the country there is not , under present conditions , sufficient time for the proper development of both subjects : and experts are nearly unanimous in the opinion that Physics affords a better intellectual training than Chemistry , and the expense and risk in maintaining a Physical Laboratory is also distinctly less . " |
| 28 | You have to remember that in a school such as ours the children are not as ready and willing to learn as in schools in middle-class neighbourhoods . |
| 29 | Also , when describing the work in a bookshop few of them mentioned the fact that the bookseller had to decide what books to buy for his stock and few realized how much financial expertise was needed . |
| 30 | New , covered shopping centres — for all their obvious advantages in a climate such as ours — tend to be aimed at established shops with a brand name , which can pay a good rent . |