Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They inter-linked into a plasma of enormous strength , and to me as a young man they formed a Mafia that made the Sicilian one look like choirboys . |
| 2 | Mummy instilled a beauty routine into me as a young girl which is as automatic to me now as brushing my teeth . |
| 3 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 4 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 5 | He relaxes and tells me about a new band he is producing . |
| 6 | Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found someone of a like mind who was also keen to start . |
| 7 | How would you have felt if someone with a hundred times your experience had tried to buy into one of your early ventures ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Now , ’ said Picon a few years ago , ‘ when you read an obituary of someone with a Jewish name you know you have lost another member of the audience . ’ |
| 9 | Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment . |
| 10 | We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven . |
| 11 | He tells me of a great battle his ancestors fought near Lake Victoria . |
| 12 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 13 | A terrible knowledge had been swelling slowly in the Padre 's mind , like a sweet , poisonous fruit , which for a long time he had not dared to taste . |
| 14 | By August 1991 W. 's condition had deteriorated to the point at which for a short time she had to be fed by nasogastric tube and have her arms encased in plaster . |
| 15 | However early in the novel he has an experience which makes him aware of a significantly different kind of memory , and this is of course the famous incident in which as a young man he dips a small cake , a madeleine , into a cup of tea . |
| 16 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 17 | One small point , if you say its like a free TSB they might not want to print it ! |
| 18 | Having begun as a left-arm spinner he turned himself into a fast-medium bowler who frequently took the new ball and who at times could be decidedly nippy . |
| 19 | Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled ! |
| 20 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |
| 21 | And er , then all of a sudden I opened a sort of a door up in there , the light flashed down like somebody with a big torch you know . |
| 22 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 23 | It does n't hit you for a long time what you have achieved . |
| 24 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |
| 25 | FOR many years the House of Commons regarded itself as a closed society whose proceedings were private except to the extent that the House itself decided to report them . |
| 26 | By looking after its past employees , the army sought to position itself as a caring organisation which would encourage new recruits . |
| 27 | If we shoot you against a blank wall you might be in the middle of the city , or in the studio , or anywhere . |
| 28 | If you put it into the startup group , it will greet you with a new quote which you can in turn use to amaze your workmates during coffee breaks . |
| 29 | I think we 'll move you into a little theatre we have down here for just this sort of thing , OK ? |
| 30 | I go bananas I go spare I go for you in a big way I go for you with |