Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not good enough for our country to have a Government who are playing for a draw . |
| 2 | Take it in through your skin to become a ball in your belly . |
| 3 | As we ruminated , suddenly into our midst burst a young girl visibly in distress . |
| 4 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 5 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 6 | And what pride she had , that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house , and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire . |
| 7 | Whereas Sutherland describes the Augustan poet as a man at dinner with his friends , Sitter leaves the impression of the mid-century poet alone in his rooms gnawing a joint . |
| 8 | You see , it was entirely within his character to create a situation of interest either by being excessively cantankerous as an old man , or by exhibiting his somewhat childish traits . |
| 9 | She had said she could n't stand living in such close proximity to quite so many facial quirks , but there was something deeper in her decision to take a small flat near the school . |
| 10 | The Captain 's mirth over the Butcher 's Assistant 's love-life and the reasons therefore reached the ears of the Old Stager as he settled down in his deckchair to relish a happy evening 's criticism of his own team . |
| 11 | London Assurance owed much to his ability to hammer a text into presentable shape . |
| 12 | ‘ Azor ! ’ she crooned , and , feeling a need to touch , to stroke the animal who had a part in Ven 's life , she got down on her haunches to make a fuss of the dog . |
| 13 | He came down on his knees to do a solo really because he ca n't actually play to back me up ! |
| 14 | Across his scalp and down to his brows spread a searing pain . |
| 15 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 16 | Its lumbering hulk drops down over our heads to land a good mile away . |
| 17 | The Department of the Environment purports to have knowledge enough at its fingertips to enable a standard spending assessment to be made that takes account of all sorts of individual circumstances in each local authority area . |
| 18 | They are instead bent into semicircles and joined together at their ends to form a solid circular toroid . |
| 19 | The children here were all considered old enough by their parents to understand a sympathetic explanation of the grounds on which the Reporter had referred their case to the Children 's Panel . |
| 20 | It is not worth your neighbour having a tree this big . |
| 21 | I suppose I have been thinking rather a lot lately about my reluctance to stick a label on myself politically — as a lesbian . |
| 22 | The dark incision running obliquely from just above her vagina seemed a grosser violation of her corpse than anything inflicted on her in life . |
| 23 | PGA is a big lunchtime hit around the Practical PC office and the Ed can regularly be seen tucked away in his office playing a round of golf . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not in our interests to push a company into liquidation , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ Despite the views of some , it does not in my view represent a view which is necessarily and unquestionably Christian . ’ |
| 26 | Wriggling across country on the D216 to Port-d'Envaux , you come to two more chateaux : 18th-century Panloy , flaking romantically away on its hillock overlooking a bend in the Charente and , almost next door , the much older , moated Crazannes , half-smothered in amazing flamboyant Gothic carving . |
| 27 | Half a mile away on our left towered a rounded granite outcrop , about 1,000 feet high ; against the opposite mountain , to our right , lay an exfoliating fissure , fringed with forest , about three football fields long . |
| 28 | It is enough to say that , having adopted the character of Oliver Twist , I have been fortunate in meeting with a kindlier and less formidable response than he ; and while anyone who knows the editor 's capabilities must realise that it is not beyond his powers to write a further introduction of the same delight as that preceding Volume II , it would be unreasonable to complain that in his assessment of the situation the needs of prompt publication have been put first . |
| 29 | Any regulatory system will be judged not just by its ability to provide a ‘ fair , rate of return for investors and ‘ fair ’ prices for consumers , but on its ability to avoid under-investment . |
| 30 | Age discrimination in the field of employment occurs when people are judged not by their ability to do a particular job but by their age . |