Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
| 2 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 3 | He had seen it plane in behind the trees beyond a bend in the stream and had stalked and shot it while she slept . |
| 4 | For there really is something a little odd surrealist even in the idea of a folding-leaf Dining ( Bird ) Table , where the flaps are made to beat up and down like the wings of a bird . |
| 5 | But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship . |
| 6 | She was thinking of a bleak room in a small block of flats in Streatham , the curtains drawn to keep in the heat , the walls weighed down with the knick-knacks of a happy life : the flat she had been brought up in . |
| 7 | That ties in with the findings of a remarkable researcher . |
| 8 | For now , 16 years later , and with two children aged seven and nine , she is running , from her Croydon home , a thriving sole practice that fits in with the demands of a young family . |
| 9 | He , who wishes to continue getting plenty , goes along with the plans for a better tomorrow . |
| 10 | The summit itself is crowned by a trig pillar , a huge cairn , and a walled shelter along with the remains of a celebratory tower built in 1838 to commemorate Victoria 's Coronation , but wrecked by revelling locals after the opening — there were problems with vandals even in those days ! |
| 11 | There was always that about him — the Welsh chieftain down from the hills on a raid to seize the bounty of the fat rich oppressor and then ride home back into the trackless labyrinths of his past . |
| 12 | I 'll look at the cricket scores and pretend I 'm some old member in from the shires with a striped blazer and a pink gin in his fist . |
| 13 | this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes … |
| 14 | Soon she would lie down in the arms of a stronger lover than Tom would ever be and fall asleep . |
| 15 | Down in the dumps as a result ! ( 9 ) |
| 16 | They were quite intimidating to a poor Waaf struggling along in the teeth of a gale , on a bike in a skirt . |
| 17 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 18 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 19 | We can whip down to the Bricklayers for a pint . ’ |
| 20 | A former bus driver is staging an all night sit in outside the offices of a training organisation he claims forced him out of a job . |
| 21 | I really only went along to the interviews for a lark , as company for a friend . |
| 22 | It was like nothing she had ever experienced before — she had always been aware she had the capacity for passion , but it was an element of her own make-up she had kept sternly suppressed , her mind refusing to give in to the demands of a young , healthy body . |
| 23 | This is apparent to anyone who sat in on the proceedings of a local credit union . |
| 24 | The long thin mouth was pulled down at the corners like a tragic mask , the eyes were hooded , the shoulders hunched , head bent forward so that the man 's gaze seemed fixed on the surface of the table . |
| 25 | Meanwhile work on full employment policy had been handed down by the politicians to a committee of officials . |
| 26 | We sat right down by the ashes of a fire , and I looked at them , and I did n't wonder who could have made them . |
| 27 | He also witnessed the gunning down by the police of a cornered Sinn Feiner . |
| 28 | Here , the Conciliation Committee had rejected the union 's advice on an acceptable settlement and the Ministry of Shipping 's offer was turned down by the men after a ballot vote . |
| 29 | Her mother , Avril , felt trapped , tired and depressed , hemmed in by the demands of a fretful strong-willed toddler , ten-year-old John , who was beginning to refuse to go to school , and her ‘ selfish ’ husband , James . |
| 30 | Limp orange light was leaking in around the edges of a grey blind . |