Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we straighten our tie and suck on a Cloret , we reflect gloomily that the Mail on Sunday categorized Denice 's former dates as ‘ rich , famous and suntanned ’ and we try to hope that perhaps she feels like a change . |
| 2 | So she goes to a clinic and exactly the same thing happens . |
| 3 | So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum . |
| 4 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |
| 5 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 6 | Food and drinks are always at hand , but not petrol — garages close at 7pm and only one opens on a rota basis . |
| 7 | Basically it consists in a failure in the ego by means of which inner , subjective sensations become confused with those originating in the outside world — an observation which reveals how close projection is to thoroughgoing hallucination ( with which it is , of course , frequently allied in paranoia ) . |
| 8 | You can not put a time on how long it takes for a swimfeeder to empty . |
| 9 | Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else . |
| 10 | Perhaps it speaks to a part of our mind that does not know about self-control — a part that remembers the time when we were entirely in someone else 's power and they , in a certain sense , were in ours . |
| 11 | Perhaps it stems from a sensation that I am in some way making a prediction of awful catastrophe , and not just telling a story . |
| 12 | If only it holds for a while . ’ |
| 13 | So he gets in a cab , he 's got nothing , he just gets in a cab and he goes , he 's sitting , sit sitting in the cab and the man goes what 's the matter ? |
| 14 | So he dreams of a highways authority , which could charge , not tax — and the magic of semantics would leave the cash in the transport budget . |
| 15 | So he ends with a toast to the bridesmaids and/or Matron of Honour . |
| 16 | But be clever and do it like Dad did ; arrange it so it looks like a burglary . ’ |
| 17 | You said you had to model it but make it , squeeze it in the middle so it 's fatter at the ends that 's it , so it looks like a canoe |
| 18 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that this is not always the case . |
| 19 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that there is one section of the department which does have regular problems of robbery and criminal damage — our Parking Section . |
| 20 | So that 's an acid plus a metal , now an acid plus a base which is this one we 've just done , a metal oxide the metal oxides are bases , er you can think of them as being alkaline , we call it basic but very very similar sort of thing to alkaline okay so what happens with a base and an acid ? |
| 21 | Firstly , not everybody lives in a family . |
| 22 | In away he acts as a risk channel . |
| 23 | Thus it nestles in a hollow with the Wolds rising to the north . |
| 24 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 25 | When an ion approaches a surface , the angle at which it scatters depends on how directly it collides with a surface atom . |
| 26 | Yeah but it do n't look like a sh like it does with a shoe box . |
| 27 | Whenever one hears of a child dying , whether from disease or accident , it always seems particularly tragic . |
| 28 | Whenever it falls on a Friday it 's always a very good birthday . |
| 29 | But sooner or later it turns into a crisis of resources — practical , personal and political . |
| 30 | Now she works as a stylist at Highbury Hair in Cosham , Hampshire . |