Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 2 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 3 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 4 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 5 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 6 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 9 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’ |
| 11 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 12 | I used to love driving that around , it was that long , me sat behind the wheel I looked like a dot in that ! |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 14 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 15 | For a term I lived in a room which looked out straight across to the tower . |
| 16 | Pon de Telly dem talk fe a while |
| 17 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the same side which finished on a high by winning the Divisional Premiership final at Old Trafford last May , apart from Aussie second row Paul Carr . |
| 19 | Cross the road and take the obvious lane on the other side which leads to a farm and the prominent Arnside Tower dating from the 14th century on the hillside above . |
| 20 | Barnes turned the game with his penalties , but possession alone was not enough to break a Springbok side which defends with a pride born of historical arrogance . |
| 21 | This year , BT and IBM plan to market a £3,000 video phone card which fits into a PC . |
| 22 | But it was the main bedroom which came as a surprise and a shock . |
| 23 | Twenty five Stoddards employees took part in the company 's annual bowling contest which came to a close at the Elderslie Wallace Bowling Club on September 9th . |
| 24 | Thus it may be committed by wrongfully taking possession of goods , by wrongfully disposing of them , by wrongfully destroying them or simply by wrongfully refusing to give them up when demanded , for in all these cases can be traced conduct by the defendant which amounts to a denial of the plaintiff 's rights or the assertion of inconsistent rights . |
| 25 | A club which exists on a shoestring budget could have elected to play Rangers on a neutral ground , and made at least four times the amount of money Arbroath will get from next month 's Cup tie . |
| 26 | Firemen were called to release British Steel worker Mohabat Ali Din , 35 , of Tollesby Road , Middlesbrough , who was trapped in his Ford Sierra car which collided with a tractor unit at the new bridge between Lackenby and Cleveland works . |
| 27 | Mr Dubcek , 70 , whose reforms were crushed by the Soviets in 1968 , was being driven in a car which plunged into a ravine near Prague . |
| 28 | He was a passenger in a car which crashed into a field off the Derrylin-Ballinaleck Road , near Thompson 's Bridge , on August 29 . |
| 29 | These are the crumpled remains of a car which ploughed through a hedge and into the side of a house in Reddings Road in Cheltenham . |
| 30 | Last year Norway killed 95 minke whales as part of a scientific research programme which calls for a total of 400 whales to be killed in the period 1992-94 . |