Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 3 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 4 | ‘ No-one goes into a loose scrum with the intention of inflicting injury on an opponent . |
| 5 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 6 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 7 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 8 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 9 | We have two grown-up children and one grandchild and I enjoy big family gatherings — the Italian influence again — with everyone seated at a round table . |
| 10 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 11 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 12 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 13 | The Prince wants me to go to a bloody ball . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They want me to go to a mental hospital , Mum . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was a psychological tonic which helped me to cope with a silent Parliament . |
| 16 | In 1987 there were 3,500 new recruits , each of whom passed through a formal selection process . |
| 17 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 18 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 19 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 20 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 21 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 22 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 23 | There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small . |
| 24 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 25 | The heading ‘ Letterman productions , Hollywood , London , paris ’ , with a movie camera logo , seems to me to come from a comic book , but it obviously reminds Mr Shah of his brief association with Ava Gardner , Clark Gable and John Ford . |
| 26 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 27 | ( 1981 ) also shows how positive measures to meet the needs of visually handicapped pupils can help them to flourish in a happy community atmosphere . |
| 28 | ‘ Everyone lives on a neighbourly basis with each other . |
| 29 | Of course , not everyone lives in a nuclear family , and there are families where the costs are shared equally or nearly so , or where the housing tenure is held jointly by both partners , but they are not the norm . |
| 30 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |