Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phhor stinks it stinks like a sewer |
| 2 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 3 | The second episode which Mrs Whitehouse says she remembers with a mixture of ‘ amusement and incredulity ’ involved a scene in which Alf and his son-in-law were in the living room reading : Mike , a football book , and Alf a book that can not at first be seen . |
| 4 | She says she lives on a housing estate on the outskirts of Mansfield . |
| 5 | A trick question : as it happens it appears on a sort of in-between track . |
| 6 | When the water evaporates it goes on a cloud and then the cloud goes in any place and later it goes out as rain . |
| 7 | It will charge interest on the cash amounts it advances at a rate similar to that for an overdraft . |
| 8 | Babur thinks he looks like a film star , the sort who gets typecast as a rugged mountain trapper . |
| 9 | Now that 's er that 's er er a carborundum stone and it goes it fits on a jig at side of machine . |
| 10 | Not sure , I must ask her where he does he goes to a Marks where they always have every possible man 's suit that Marks make and and he takes the time to buy two or even three because he does n't get that much time for shopping . |
| 11 | It creates certainty as it specifically defines what amounts to a business secret and brings its existence to the mind of the employee . |
| 12 | What he leaves himself amounts to a prize-giving for English composition with the sea as the subject . |
| 13 | He provides what amounts to a site guide for any seeker equipped with a good discriminating detector and a 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map . |