Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 2 | She looked so comical he was taken out of himself and stepped inside with a return of confidence . |
| 3 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 4 | For example , if you were thinking of ways of decorating the bedroom of a feminine little girl , you could make a series of miniatures , each bearing a single letter , which when hung together on a wall spelt out her name . |
| 5 | They should be able to grasp a total situation from the fragments presented to them and respond linguistically in a way that would benefit their business . |
| 6 | Then he opened them and kicked savagely at a lump of dried mud , sending it sailing across the yard to explode against the side of the stable . |
| 7 | The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time . |
| 8 | Er , the first , the most straightforward way is to name the feature , if you want to briefly describe it if it 's appropriate , and I mean briefly , then use a link phrase like what this means to you and come out with a benefits statement , something that the client can relate to , and the final piece in the jigsaw is to ask the client how he feels about it . |
| 9 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 10 | We shall not linger in Kursk itself but wander gently down a side road through this part of the Central Agricultural Region until we reach the Nikol'skaia volost' ( cluster of villages ) roughly 40 km. to the south-east ( Roslavl' lay 110 km. from Smolensk ) . |
| 11 | Further , a family member may find it difficult to " let go " of the primary sufferer while he or she is in treatment and may still want to find out everything that goes on in a treatment centre on a day-to-day basis and there by continue to " fix " by proxy . |
| 12 | Oh I like everything that goes off with a bang , Jane ! |
| 13 | It too regards greenfly as a good meal , so do n't go bashing at everything that looks remotely like a wasp . |
| 14 | Stick that lot together along with the teeniest , faintest soupçon of banjo , and you 've got something that sounds almost like a miniature piano . |
| 15 | Behind her , the flat expanse in the centre of the roof was dominated by something that perched there like a gigantic black dragonfly . |
| 16 | ‘ Pop , ’ she continues , ‘ is just about making something that comes across in a simple way . |
| 17 | The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search . |
| 18 | Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves . |
| 19 | " I ca n't just drop everything and go off on a picnic . " |
| 20 | As he came out of the lavatory , Ian slammed the bathroom door behind him and went past in a wave of Old Spice . |
| 21 | He felt his foot slip under him and sat down with a jarring shock , landing uncomfortably on a spanner and a piece of plastic tubing . |
| 22 | They offered him hot wine and canella , surrounded him and talked eagerly in a mixture of Russian , French and Yiddish . |
| 23 | When fitzAlan stepped away from her and sat down on a nearby chair , hooking one booted foot over his knee and regarding her with grimly assessing eyes , her mind was clear once more , ready with the plan Matilda had outlined . |
| 24 | He thanked her but countered cunningly with a query about who her friends might be . |
| 25 | Nor are they as turned on by a woman 's dress sense . |
| 26 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 27 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 28 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 29 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 30 | The pain was so unexpected , so absolute , that he had no name for it and fell over without a sound , like a baby , too shocked to make any fuss . |