Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1941 I was trained as a Navigator/Radio in the RAF and was eventually sent to an OTU where I crewed up with a Canadian pilot , Bob Tidy of Toronto . |
| 2 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 3 | Often , if they have a disposition to broader problem-solving , the search consultant can provide views on several issues : the potential organisational structure ; how the individual would fit in ; the likely scope of his or her responsibilities ; if the tasks he or she will be set are manageable and possibly whether candidates can be found in the market who meet a particular specification ; whether the search can be a UK-based search or needs to be international ; whether any of the top candidates can be attracted for the remuneration or does the remuneration of the senior team need reviewing ; is the nationality of the candidate important ; could a woman do the job ; what happened to the last job holder ; did he or she move on to a bigger job or was he or she fired , and was that person successful in the role ? |
| 4 | We motored down to Vyborg Castle Harbour , where we tied up by a newly built tax-free shop in the shadow of the 12th Century castle . |
| 5 | Darlington won 20–15 at North Durham , where they got off to a flying start with two tries in the first 20 minutes by winger Martin Bewick and flanker Paul Barkes . |
| 6 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 7 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |
| 8 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |
| 9 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 10 | Go to a hairdresser , ask him or her to come up with a style that suits you , your hair , your lifestyle , and emerge looking and feeling great . |
| 11 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 12 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 13 | He had a remarkable two at the 12th where he holed out with an eight iron to come home in one over par for the closing nine holes . |
| 14 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 15 | In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England … |
| 16 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 17 | It rolls up , it , it 's retractable inside the body or it drops off after an orgasm |
| 18 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 19 | Eventually the Goblin runs out of energy and collapses in an exhausted pile with a silly grin on his face , or he crashes straight into a tree or other obstacle and ends up throttling himself with his chain . |
| 20 | It 's not a role that I welcome , although I try hard as a responsible chairman of the group to do the job as well as I possibly can . |
| 21 | I developed a pretty good ear , although I started out as a complete idiot . |
| 22 | I have never seen a hunt in progress , although I recall vaguely as a child being taken to watch a Meet when I was visiting relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 23 | The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones . |
| 24 | I wanted to check on the landing patch that I keep there on a semi-permanent lease . |
| 25 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 26 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 27 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 28 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 29 | That I came out of an egg . ’ |
| 30 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |