Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both know it 'll be all right between them in a bit . |
| 2 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 3 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 4 | But there are things that we 're not avail er , we 're not aware of and I 'm looked on as something of an expert , so God help those people who come and ask me er , what there is , what forms they should use and what is available on the , in the organization , if I 'm looked upon as an expert . |
| 5 | Silverstein called Douglas , who had already read the script , and to Silverstein 's tremendous relief , Kirk said that the part was n't big enough for him as a star , and not small enough for a cameo . |
| 6 | ‘ I loved it and the house works brilliantly for us as a family . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When the lawsuit was beginning , before he could possibly have known about it , he wrote this down for me on a bit of paper . ’ |
| 8 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 9 | Anderton struck twice in three minutes in the first half to stun 20,000 fans allowed in for nothing for a game marking Sunderland 's new status as a city . |
| 10 | ‘ Knowing your superb taste , Uncle , it sounds as if we 're in for something of a treat , ’ Naylor replied . |
| 11 | Would you and Karen mind standing in for me for a while ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What we going to do ? pull him along after us on a cart ? |
| 13 | He 'd seen her once , on the street , and been terrified ; not so much of her , but of the bastard who 'd maimed him and who stalked along behind her like a shadow . |
| 14 | However clever it was at irradiating all those little blue MPs as it passed over them , it still looked too much like something from a game show or a funfair at the end of the pier . |
| 15 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 16 | He ordered a pastis for himself and a pineau de Charentes for Sabine , then sat down with her at a table in the corner . |
| 17 | Then , gently , he pulled her down with him into a nest of long fragrant grasses . |
| 18 | Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off . |
| 19 | She grabbed her mug of tea , gripping it in both hands and staring down into it with an expression of such misery that one could almost imagine the dead girl 's face reflected in the surface of the liquid . |
| 20 | Managing Director David Kohler , who owns a substantial part of the club , offered Pleat the opportunity to come in with him as a partner . |
| 21 | They did a crafty one — one came out and a woman came in , very nice , telling him he had to face up to his responsibilities , she said she 'd help us , they 'd get him a job , they 'd pay his rent and he had to move in with me for a month 's trial . |
| 22 | Kohler said : ‘ I offered David the chance to come in with me in a partnership but unfortunately he could n't come up with the necessary amount . ’ |
| 23 | Maybe you can get somebody to move in with her for a couple of days . |
| 24 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 25 | On top of all my other problems I had something of an upheaval on the domestic front when my daughter and her two children had to move in with us for a while . |
| 26 | Rindi was a shy and diminutive man of indeterminate age , whom we first met at the Keraing 's house and persuaded to take us along with him on a number of occasions to record his unenviable working day or , rather , night . |
| 27 | Maybe she 'd play along with him for a while . |
| 28 | You could win a week at Springs Hydro — and bring a friend or partner along with you as a part of the prize . |
| 29 | ‘ Look , ’ Donaldson told him outside , ‘ I 'm not being deliberately awkward , but you ca n't appear from nowhere and expect me to go along with you without an explanation . ’ |
| 30 | The window frame hung drunkenly across the cupboard in the corner with a piece of glass held together by the criss-crossed brown paper hanging down from it like a flag . |