Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you as a graduate in Social Sciences and a policeman could tell me ? ’ |
| 2 | Instead of the medical materialism of Hammer horror , we get a surprisingly restrained treatment of the play 's fuliginous cruelties : even when the Duchess is invaded by a chorus of madmen , they are ushered in one at a time by a beady-eyed supervisor wielding a corrective cane . |
| 3 | there was only one on a sort of opened pack and we could |
| 4 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 5 | I 'm not one for a lot of late nights because I have to be on form and looking good for work . |
| 6 | After a few weeks , they were sent away one at a time to Hendon Works for repainting and returned renumbered 345–347 . |
| 7 | But of course Mary Armour was already something of a veteran by then . |
| 8 | Having had three reviews printed and received a veiled death threat from The Godfathers , I was already something of a celebrity in my native Wigan when I took the train to Commonwealth House . |
| 9 | Already something of an embarrassment after the publicity surrounding the leak of his report , he became something of a liability when the results of the polygraph tests also leaked out to the press . |
| 10 | The main enemy attack was still nothing but a sound of blended menace ; a crashing noise in the rye , a thump of drums and a deep-throated cheer . |
| 11 | But the leaders are nearly always someone like a Director of Nursing or somebody like that , who has no ward experience |
| 12 | well Nick , Nick , I 've always been the buffer , it 's funny , I mean Bruce is , is very like you in a lot of ways , he 's very easy going , you know and , but if the kids ever wanted anything |
| 13 | ‘ There 's still something of a stigma in being an unemployed professional , ’ said Kate Comfort , director of public affairs at RIAS . |
| 14 | Women are still something of a rarity in senior positions within business and industry , despite efforts . |
| 15 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 16 | He is extremely knowledgeable on the subject , and I am still something of an idealist at heart . |
| 17 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 18 | It was also something of a reassurance to conservative waverers frightened of political radicalism ; the Council was committed to evangelization of the Christian gospel . |
| 19 | His early arrival was clearly something of an inconvenience to his lordship and his colleagues who had reckoned on a day or two more of privacy for their preparations . |
| 20 | It seemed warm to him , as the handle of a spoon or a fork had often been , passed from her hand to his , after she 'd mashed up something on a plate for him when he was younger . |
| 21 | France has unquestionably built up something of a lead in this area . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh just a boring errand , to pick up something from a friend of my aunt 's . ’ |
| 23 | They , along with compositors , paper makers , wool sorters and colliers , had developed the rolling strike , or strike in detail , whereby shops were turned out one at a time with those in work supporting those who were withdrawn . |
| 24 | ‘ Tell the housekeeper she must count the needles , and only give out one at a time to the girls — they lose them so easily ! |
| 25 | Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 26 | No star will appear as anything but a dot of light . |
| 27 | Talking to saints as if they were there , is surely nothing but a mark of faith . |
| 28 | It did not sound like a threat ; there was even something of a promise about it . |
| 29 | It was actually thirty million was n't it of a claim for fifty million , of which there was also a secondary claim which was dropped . |
| 30 | Greg forbore to ask how someone with an accent like that would know , and said instead : ‘ It 'll bring in a tidy sum if it 's a best-seller , I suppose . ’ |