Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With primordial black holes being so scarce , it might seem unlikely that there would be one near enough for us to observe as an individual source of gamma rays . |
| 2 | You may have put off beginning lace knitting because you know that it requires an extra carriage and one carriage is enough for you to master as a beginner . |
| 3 | As she was led towards the back of it , there was time and light only for her to take in a number of doors on either side , a pervasive smell of must , dark wood panelling , and the central staircase leading to an upper gallery that ran left and right above . |
| 4 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 5 | Er I do a plug the alb of the album Midnight Postcards we call it , I 'm plugging that now until Christmas , promoting that er on television and radio , and I er in between I go on a short holiday to Africa and then January I start Alfie until May , and then I think I 'm gon na do a T V movie or a movie in June July , and then in end of July I go to America for four four till the end of November with Alfie . |
| 6 | When it was all over I had on a wet blouse , but Shirnette had one on too . |
| 7 | The creature that now stared down at me looked like a machine , lathe-turned . |
| 8 | Traveller Victoria Cooper said : ‘ The smell was awful — just like you get from a gas cooker . |
| 9 | It 's not like him to grumble at a bitch . |
| 10 | Ballesteros 's 69 was more of a scramble , particularly over the closing holes , but he got away with it thanks to a short game which has been very consistent both this week and last . |
| 11 | The camera panned away from her to rest on a gleaming exercise bicycle . |
| 12 | In other words , it is not enough that a cell should be more or less active ; the change must be sufficiently unusual statistically for it to function as a code . |
| 13 | Also , in this situation , the elevator control behaves more like it does on a fixed-wing model rather than as it does on a hovering helicopter . |
| 14 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 15 | One booted foot was thrust out for her to use as a stirrup . |
| 16 | A tin with one side cut out of it hung from a hook at the back . |
| 17 | Here thieves removed a picture from the wall and police believe they then walked out with it hidden under a long raincoat . |
| 18 | Someone came back with him to plug in a telephone . |
| 19 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 20 | It is n't like you to fuss about a missing chop . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ How about we go for a bite to eat somewhere ? ’ |
| 22 | There 's nowhere for him to go for a bit of company — he wo n't go to the day hospital because he thinks they 'll make him take drugs . |
| 23 | The car ahead of them squealed to a halt , crashed backwards across the road into a stone wall , and came to an abrupt stop . |