Example sentences of "[pron] and [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began experimenting with other drugs in use at the time and , using his extensive knowledge of botany , he investigated the effects of a number of medicinal plants , both on himself and on a small circle of friends and pupils . |
| 2 | The author met the leopard a couple of days later on a forest track looking very sorry for himself and with a broken tail ! |
| 3 | On one occasion a man sat next to me and after a preliminary bit of footsie , he invited me to slip my hand into his pants . |
| 4 | These were doubtless satisfactory for the individuals who had collected them and for a short period of time , until perhaps superseded by rulings that were seen to be more appropriate . |
| 5 | The generations of Marxists who have lived through the grievous experience of Fascism and who , in another order of things , have experienced Stalinist degeneration , appraise the concept of democracy in a different way [ from Lenin ] , and not in opposition to socialism and communism , but as a road towards them and as a main component of them . |
| 6 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 7 | The morning was taken up by the competition itself and after a good lunch in the Clubhouse , a fun game was organised in the afternoon . |
| 8 | For Emerson I972 was a fine year : with a full season in FI behind him and with a winning car , he drove with assurance , confidence and verve , though still finicky if conditions were not favourable to him , as at Monaco in the rain . |
| 9 | Panic seized him and with a sudden curse he turned away from the wicket-gate of Clark 's Wharf and gestured at the others to get away . |
| 10 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 11 | A loose stone unsteadied her and with a little cry of surprise , she fell . |
| 12 | He 'll have it off her and into a good Catholic home quick as blinking , the poor little basket , and you 'll not have sight nor sound of it , and nor the mother , I should n't think . ’ |
| 13 | Hundreds of organisations have realised that an independent weather service can give them exactly the information they need , when they need it and for a realistic cost . |
| 14 | Next to it and with a connecting door , was a small kitchen about ten feet by eight . |
| 15 | And anyway , even those inside tennis circles who admired his talent , believed that the little known Czech was squandering it and on a one-way trip to Reggie Perrin 's Obscuresville , Arizona . |
| 16 | It was almost at this moment , too , that the door was thrust open and the indignant lady stood within it and in a loud voice proclaimed in her most officious manner : ‘ When you have come to yourself enough to apologise , Peggy , I 'll see you upstairs in my room . |
| 17 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 18 | Being gay for me meant identifying with people who were of a similar age to myself and with a particular way of dressing . |
| 19 | Comprising 250 lots and with a global estimation of around FFr4 million , the mirror collection was started by Anlen shortly after he arrived in France in 1958 , a virtually penniless refugee . |