Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just stand by me for a little bit longer . |
| 2 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 3 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 4 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 5 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
| 6 | ‘ Suggesting we do n't ride on them strikes me as a whole lot better , yes , ’ said Angalo . |
| 7 | And the sold them for a third profit so what did he sell them for ? |
| 8 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 9 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 10 | Second surprise was the music — a soft waltz coming to her through deep blue dusk , strings and woodwind , as if someone in a grand house up on the hill had just opened the door of the ballroom . |
| 11 | In fact , it was an ‘ A ’ team player who helped them towards a good victory over highly placed Malshanger on Wednesday last week . |
| 12 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 13 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 14 | ‘ You remind me of a wild animal sometimes , poised ready to flee at the first sight of a hunter 's gun . ’ |
| 15 | The Euro-sceptics argue that Mr Major has established himself as a good European merely to carry credibility when he vetoes monetary union . |
| 16 | He would describe himself as a keen engineer rather than ‘ train spotter . ’ |
| 17 | Suddenly a man will see himself as a sexual failure rather than as someone who simply had not been able to achieve an erection on one single occasion . |
| 18 | Holden seemed particularly nervous , repeating his lines over and over to himself like a raw newcomer terribly afraid he might forget how to deliver when the time came . |
| 19 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |
| 20 | But his lordship 's grandfather was a cautious man , and provided himself with a secret way out at need . |
| 21 | ‘ The food would probably be excellent , ’ the novel ends , as Julian the camp-survivor muses happily to himself in a sunlit Paris where he has settled , staring into a favourite restaurant in the Latin Quarter : ‘ He began to examine the menu . |
| 22 | There are other pains still to come , for none can hide himself in a secret place where the deeds he has done will not search him out . |
| 23 | Now er they are then in a situation perhaps often those people who are er less financially well off and sometimes in jobs which this particular might very well lose tomorrow erm their in a difficult situation as far as paying back mortgages is concerned . |
| 24 | The significance of using this starting point , outside of the actors ' consciousness , can not be exaggerated , because it set Marx , Engels , and other Marxists on an analytical course which was fundamentally different from other social analysts of their time , and which to a certain extent still distinguishes Marxist analyses from many others . |
| 25 | They came , with a yell that crossed the fields ahead of them like a sourceless bellow out of the air . |
| 26 | ‘ Though we 'll need to keep an eye on you for a good while afterwards and replenish your fluids thoroughly . |
| 27 | Eight ‘ first ’ books for under one pound will strike you as a remarkable offer right now . |
| 28 | I never thought of you as a proper person before . |
| 29 | The past often appears ideal in retrospect , yet if one looks at it closely it reveals itself as a dangerous place where we laid mines to trap others , and others laid them to trap us . |
| 30 | By 1902 Hardy was working on a project which owed its inspiration to boyhood memories of local stories and traditions of Napoleonic times , but had first presented itself as a literary theme in about 1875 . |