Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person will only be an arbitrator or quasi-arbitrator if there is a submission to him either of a specific dispute or of present points of difference or of defined differences that may in future arise and if there is agreement that his decision will be binding . |
| 2 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 3 | Your office must have a pile of sand in it instead of a desk , so that you can keep your head buried all bloody day . ’ |
| 4 | In the late Thirties , in that period which he described as more " moral " , he had affirmed the need for something very like a Christian revolution which might alter the structure . |
| 5 | Mr Hardiman 's large pink face convulsed for a moment into something very like a smile . |
| 6 | Rising stars like Phil Tufnell , Chris Lewis and Graeme Hick have never shared a dressing room with him purely as a team-mate , getting to know him on equal terms . |
| 7 | Trouble in school is conceived by the pupils who take part in it both as a natural reaction to being in a classroom confronted by a teacher , and as a specific response to particular offences on the part of the teacher . |
| 8 | I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while . |
| 9 | Celebrating the start of our once in a lifetime holiday in style by sipping rum punches on the open deck we watched the sun beginning to set before being escorted to our cabin . |
| 10 | His doe has a litter and she was making a noise over them rather like a robin in autumn . |
| 11 | Henry thought of it more as a shrine . |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't really believe I went to bed with you just for a story ? ’ |
| 13 | It was late afternoon , the micro hones had been taken away , the hall was only half lit ; Karajan sat with the orchestra in something closer to a seance or seminar than a rehearsal . |
| 14 | WENDY RUSSELL became the first woman to hole in one twice during a top-class event yesterday when she sank two tee-shots in the opening round of the British Women 's Seniors ' Championship at Wrexham . |