Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 90 recommendations of the inquiry included the phasing out of seclusion , better staff training and the setting up of a patients ' advocacy service . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , the charm of the city raised her spirits and her first impressions after a night out at an artists ' ball were fresh and delightful : ‘ You ca n't walk home at dawn in Paris , even two hundred yards . |
| 4 | Against all reason they felt it could turn his slow decline around like a Lourdes ' miracle . |
| 5 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |