Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there is that recipe for a sauce for lobster which I came across in a French dictionary of cooking of the 1830s . |
| 2 | I had bought an Afro wig and added hooks on to a charm bracelet , then worked out three minutes of self-deprecating material which I wrapped up in a song — Roberta Flack 's ‘ Killing Me Softly ’ . |
| 3 | At first people were suspicious ; they could not understand why she was so interested in these details , which she wrote down in a schoolbook . |
| 4 | He had quite a cheerful blaze going by the time she came back , with an armful of twigs and berries which she arranged artistically in a vase on the table . |
| 5 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 6 | Then there was one from ‘ R. Ufricks District Postmaster ’ informing residents of his area that pillar boxes with two holes in them had been ‘ put to an improper purpose ’ , which he spelled out in a way unlikely to commend itself to the Royal Mail . |
| 7 | His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner . |
| 8 | Ironically , when it was finished , and it certainly was not ‘ ruined ’ , Lipchitz preferred the drawings to the painting , which he put away in a cupboard . |
| 9 | The road bypasses the viaduct , preferring to cross under the railway at a more orthodox bridge a short distance further on , after which it climbs steadily in a barren landscape to the grassy tableland of Newby Head Moss at an elevation of almost 1400 feet . |
| 10 | From this caricature ( for that is all there is time for here ) , it can be seen that in its empirical tradition , sociology ( and to a considerable extent social psychology also ) deals primarily with western industrial society , which it examines descriptively in a somewhat piecemeal fashion . |
| 11 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 12 | She spotted an identical model to the one she gave back in a cost-cutting gesture this week when she visited a bicycle tyre factory in Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | Harrods probably has one they send out in a little green van . |
| 14 | Between them they brought together in a hotel in Windsor the chairmen of sixty major companies in Britain and a crowd of bright , articulate members of the black community . |
| 15 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 16 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 17 | His speech lasted three and a half hours ; most of it he read quickly in an even tone . |
| 18 | Right , O K. Now what it does , he 's said right , in September this is what we moved , and then what it does is divides it by four , O K , this is what we did therefore in a week . |