Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket . |
| 2 | The swing-door dividing the buffet from the kitchen contains a central , circular pink-tinted window and , as I gaze through it at the catering staff , my eyes fall on a cross between Fassbinder 's Querelle and one of Hieronymus Bosch 's more frightening paintings . |
| 3 | My cousins live amongst a community of some fifty Theosophists . |
| 4 | A teacher has only to say : " Now which of you girls did — " and my spots merge for a time into the scarlet background provided for them by the rest of my face . |
| 5 | It seems to me that I might have my hands busy during a fight , so I 've taught this one to answer to sounds , and to react to the pressure of my thighs . ’ |
| 6 | Then I sow one of my colleagues die from a heart attack and two others crack up under the strain . |
| 7 | Isabel squeezed her eyes shut for a second . |
| 8 | A bead of moisture clung , and she squeezed her eyes shut for a second lest she reach out and lick it away . |
| 9 | Even if most people will at some time in their lives live in a family which does conform to the cereal-packet image , they will also necessarily spend much of their lives outside it . |
| 10 | Her descriptions tell of a village changing slowly to a motorcar age , and perhaps forecasts the future in references that smithies have been replaced by garages and advertisements for petrol from the ‘ golden pump ’ . |
| 11 | Her duties differ from a preregistration house officer 's only in line with the legal restrictions on nursing staff . |
| 12 | Their writings engage with a spectrum of the cultural and theological traditions of medieval Europe . |
| 13 | Their boards operate behind a shroud of secrecy — MDC does not even publish its corporate strategy . |
| 14 | The result is that if a Japanese firm was systematically making investments using its earnings yield as a measure of the cost of capital , it would soon be making a loss . |
| 15 | When any of its provisions conflict with a provision of the ordinary law , it prevails and the ordinary law must give way . ’ |
| 16 | The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit … |
| 17 | Their difficulties stem from a number of different causes and may be temporary or permanent ; and they may be receiving their education , either outside the mainstream ( whether in special classes or units in ordinary schools , or in special schools ) or in ordinary classes in ordinary schools . |
| 18 | ALAMO ( 0800 272200 ) will rent out a Mercedes 190 at Heathrow for little more than its rivals charge for a Ford Fiesta . |
| 19 | Its practitioners operate in a world constrained by a belief in the immediate implementation of the legal precept , in which it becomes axiomatic that even the academic/criminologist will remain outside the world of praxis . |
| 20 | With experienced guides , you can stroll among the seals and even feed some of the babies while their mothers go for a swim under the ice . |
| 21 | Mystified , I watched a pale brown girl in her teens enter with a tray on which there were two bottles of whisky — one squarish , one round — glasses , and a jug of water kept clean with a small muslin cover edged with blue beads . |
| 22 | The Prime Minister dominates the cabinet , its members wait upon a summons ; there is control and prior approval of the agenda from the Prime Minister ; the skilful exploitation of collective responsibility by the Prime Minister can neutralise and isolate a recalcitrant cabinet minority which has no choice but to ‘ shut up or get out ’ ; the Prime Minister has wide access to a network of policy-making cabinet committees , and ‘ deals ’ can be made in inter-departmental committees , cabinet committees , or between the Prime Minister and individual ministers . |
| 23 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 24 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 25 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |
| 26 | I 've asked them as well and this might take them into the second week er to start with their pupils process on a Wednesday morning whereby in each classroom there would be a me master year plan even if it means they have to buy four and divide it up but I su I suggest that I would do something , you know , produce one and on that they will write pertinent to the the form to the form er and continue to add on that over , you know as and when it 's relevant er , dates for completion of course work , it might be module testing etcetera and I 'm going to ask at briefing that any anything that a teacher has put down for children , it might be just you know Mi Mr x's group is mentioned at briefing so they can write down what 's pertinent to them and therefore |
| 27 | Single mothers and their boyfriends come from a range of social backgrounds , but most are poor . |
| 28 | The feminist criticism of this volume is the more powerful because its contributors come from a variety of philosophical traditions . |
| 29 | And since Gilbert de Clare died in Brittany on his way home from this French campaign , the earldom of Gloucester and all its lands go to a child , and boy and barony are handed over to de Burgh . |
| 30 | Her breasts swing in a way I defy any artist to capture in paint . |