Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to a remarkable extent Kilvert succeeded in turning its limitations — its narrow range of vision and the naïvety of his own judgements — into advantages , to give it a vividness and a simplicity shared by few similar journals ; and it seems likely that it will retain its place as at once a major document of Victorian rural life and a minor but moving work of literature . |
| 2 | With his hear pounding in his chest and with barely a glance at the dreaded Bogeyman 's door , he raced along the landing and down the main stairs . |
| 3 | The curlicues massed at his collar and from here a series of well-defined ginger ridges ascended to his nude pate . |
| 4 | The unexpected news , however , was that Edward Balliol himself had here , for some unknown reason , left his army and with only a comparatively small escort of possibly five hundred men , struck off north-eastwards into the Ettrick Forest hills in the direction of St Mary 's Loch and Selkirk . |
| 5 | Tersteeg , his ex-employer and for long a friend of the family , wrote him a disapproving letter . |