Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They cite Germany 's Abitur , where school-leavers are graded in eight subjects , and where their grading wins them entry into an apprenticeship if they do not go to university . |
| 2 | Lying on the bed with my hair in a mess and holding my tummy . |
| 3 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 4 | And physically it was n't any worse than when I fell off my bike as a kid and was concussed for an hour or two . |
| 5 | it mostly concerns the small details and seemingly unimportant events which make up my experience as a woman and a mother . |
| 6 | On a wet day , eyeing the lanes of traffic before crossing to the hospital , I caught my toe in a paving-stone and fell fiat . |
| 7 | Then I pushed my car over a cliff and burned it . |
| 8 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |
| 9 | It was their own idea , started without help before I began my work as an adviser and I want to try and help them make it a success . |
| 10 | to come to my home for a holiday and a rest … |
| 11 | I might even see the remainder of my old Hyundai back on my desk as a loaner while ADM irons out the inevitable bugs in this Frankenstein 's monster I 'm creating . |
| 12 | If I suddenly transfer my attention to an object or some aspect of the physical environment ( after all , inanimate things are much easier to deal with , are n't they — they do n't have emotions ) when you 're revealing thoughts and feelings , then once again I 've dodged your agenda . |
| 13 | My need for a meal and bed overcame my apprehensions . |
| 14 | Says Murray : ‘ I was my room with a pal and after several drinks I started doing conjuring tricks — making cigarettes and bottle tops disappear . |
| 15 | Recently , I tried to cancel my appearance at a benefit as my pianist was ill . |
| 16 | I explained to her all about the Academy and my standing as a painter and the patience of the Hanging Committee and the uniqueness of you as a model . |
| 17 | Then I fell and banged my knee-cap on a stone and it 's pretty stiff now . |
| 18 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Got my head in a leg-lock and would n't let go . |
| 20 | One of the light calibre bullets had missed the top of my head by an inch and a half ! ’ |
| 21 | [ aside ] I 'll nip this bud by the time it begins to open and place it in my bosom for a year or two at least . |
| 22 | I did a great deal of work for my constituency as an MP and plan to do a lot more . |
| 23 | I gave my name to a clerk and I was taken to the manager 's room at once . |
| 24 | And then I 'm going to make you say my name in a way that you 've never said it before , ’ he told her huskily . |
| 25 | I take my drink to a table and sit staring at my shopping list as though it 's the most fascinating thing in the world . |
| 26 | He refused my offer of a bath and a bed for the night . |
| 27 | I use my father as an example because he was a Tory , and therefore as enthusiastic about students as beagles are about smoking . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll just see my father to a taxi and come back for you . ’ |
| 29 | Armed with my definition of a manager and my time-span measuring instrument , I then bumped into the second surprising finding — repeatedly confirmed — about layering in managerial hierarchies : the boundaries between successive managerial layers occur at certain specific time-span increments , just as ice changes to water and water to steam at certain specific temperatures . |
| 30 | He said of the Coronation poster : ‘ I always thought the idea for that poster was the apogee of my career as a copywriter because , although I enjoyed thinking up ideas , I always founding writing copy very hard work . ’ |