Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper 's . |
| 2 | The example is the famous case in which a man unintentionally drove his car on to a police-officer 's foot and then declined to remove it , for a minute or two , when asked . |
| 3 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 4 | The 90 recommendations of the inquiry included the phasing out of seclusion , better staff training and the setting up of a patients ' advocacy service . |
| 5 | Get another tape out in a minute Ju ! |
| 6 | Well , Mr Patten will do his best to make a silk purse out of a sow 's ear , and the audience will know it was not his idea . |
| 7 | It was all making a silk purse out of a sow 's ear . ’ |
| 8 | These farmers are obstinately trying , sometimes with help of subsidies , to make a living — a true case of trying to make an agricultural silk purse out of a sow 's ear . |
| 9 | Jim spoke as if he were telephoning from a golf club instead of a cuckold 's bed . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps you 're right but there are not many who would shift the blame on to a brother 's shoulders . |
| 11 | Norma , 55 , was unable to lie down for three months while her neck healed after a fall downstairs at a friend 's house . |
| 12 | On their return home after a day 's work they must then be given a good if not excessive meal . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 14 | Martin Rosenbaum , the family adviser , added : ‘ This very narrow decision by the court shows that the Government can hang on to its defence of corporal punishment only by a hair 's breadth . ’ |
| 15 | Martin Rosenbaum , the family adviser , added : ‘ This very narrow decision by the court shows that the Government can hang on to its defence of corporal punishment only by a hair 's breadth . ’ |
| 16 | According to the leading proponent of this view , John Herz , the nation state was being undermined by four factors : its susceptibility to economic warfare ; the rise of international communications and the consequent permeability of national frontiers ; the development of air warfare , which could take war directly to a nation 's population ; and nuclear weapons , which threatened the very survival of states and their populations . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 18 | And out of the bracken and the thin , fine rain the Welsh boiled like foam out of a hound 's jaws , to confront the English in the narrows under the hill . |
| 19 | A wooden bench seat and a scatter of garden chairs suggested that the residents of the surrounding buildings might take their ease there on a summer 's night . |
| 20 | For example , there is no need to reset hard copy since the typesetting department can download text straight from a clients ' word-processing or desk top publishing discs . |
| 21 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 22 | Back in the classroom it is not always easy to translate the high tech knowledge down to a child 's level . |
| 23 | Candles and oil-lamps gleamed weakly in distant windows and a torch shone briefly down by the ancient Cross as a link-boy led a gentleman home after a night 's revelry , by the shortest and hopefully , safest route . |
| 24 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 25 | This is prevented by LIFESPAN since a DC must reference at least one module to be meaningful ( since it makes no sense to have a DC otherwise as a DC 's sole purpose is to allow modules to be updated ) . |
| 26 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 27 | Old Steenie , he 'd make money out of a kid 's conker match ; Nigel 'd close The Mousetrap within a week . ’ |
| 28 | And he said no , buy a badge now with a dog 's head on depending on the breed of dog you 've got , and it says on it I live here . |
| 29 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |
| 30 | She goes on : ‘ The problem with taking a management decision out of a farmer 's hands as an economic decision and putting it into conservationists hands is that the conservationists do n't always agree . |