Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 2 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 3 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 4 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 5 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 6 | In the past , people have destroyed their documents on aeroplanes and in one case someone came with an outdated passport . |
| 7 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 8 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 9 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 10 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
| 11 | LITTLE Jolene Watkins , 11 , was fighting for life last night after being crushed by a runaway car which hurtled into a play- ground . |
| 12 | This came as the climax of a well-balance programme which began with a lithe rendering of Weber 's Oberon Overture , fluent and energetic . |
| 13 | It consisted of a bedroom with en suite bathroom , balcony , small sitting-room with breakfast bar , compact kitchen in pickled pine , and a large square terrace which served as an outdoor dining area , complete with round marble table and four chairs . |
| 14 | The greatest surprise came when in 1935 Warner Bros released Black Fury , a movie which depicted in a direct and totally unprecedented way the impact of a strike on a coal-mining community . |
| 15 | To ensure that its courtship sounds are heard , the male mole cricket builds an amplifier which works in a similar way to the horn of an old gramophone . |
| 16 | This study which builds on a previous study of social class variations in surgical rates , focuses on women suffering from menorrhagia ( heavy bleeding ) — a common indication for hysterectomy . |
| 17 | In the equal-opportunities field observers can analyse the talk which occurs in a mixed class . |
| 18 | This reveals much of the interstructure of the pentagon which conforms to a Fibonacci series . |
| 19 | The trains are prevented from toppling over by another wheel which runs against a vertical concrete track . |
| 20 | The typical finding of a left hemifield superiority in facial recognition is , however , consistent with other findings reviewed in this chapter which point to a relative dominance of the right hemisphere in dealing with non-verbal events in general and visuo-spatial processes in particular . |
| 21 | Soon Babushka fell into a deep sleep only to be woken by a beautiful golden light which came from a far corner of the stable . |
| 22 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
| 23 | Her features were too irregular — large brown eyes , a small tip-tilted nose and a wide mouth which broke into an odd lop-sided smile when she was happy . |
| 24 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 25 | Beauty was a draught horse who belonged to a suburban dairy . |
| 26 | And perhaps the best-known of them all ; the apparently harmless street musician who came to a little township called Hamelin , and agreed to rid the town of rats by means of his music … |
| 27 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 28 | There was also an infermiere , a male nurse , named Luigi who looked like a retired boxer . |
| 29 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , seen as a front-runner for the chief executive post at IBM Corp , is described by the Wall Street Journal as an exuberantly eccentric Texas hacker and outdoorsman who lives in a converted electrical substation with exposed plumbing , a massive crane hanging from the ceiling , and an elaborate concert hall ’ — sounds just the man for the task of turning IBM around . |
| 30 | The card itself fits into a vacant expansion slot in the PC and replaces the existing card . |