Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mouth captured hers again with a strength and intent that made her gasp . |
| 2 | In some of the cases O'Connell and Russo describe , gender seems irrelevant : the young psychologist saw herself simply as a disciple of the older man . |
| 3 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 4 | A fragment repeated itself inappropriately like a mantra in Charles ' mind . |
| 5 | If his work kept him late for a meal , he had satirical reproaches cast upon his head by the landlady . |
| 6 | Conflicting interpretations of this move saw it either as a sign that the armed forces were no longer capable of confronting internal subversion , or as an astute move aimed at allowing the guerrillas to save face and disarm before taking up seats in the Constitutional Assembly . |
| 7 | After we left the lake , our friend drove us inland to a forested area where , he assured us we had a good chance of seeing a great grey owl . |
| 8 | ‘ I was very pleased when it rained , as Silver Fling is best really at five and a half furlongs , and the easier ground made it more of a test ’ . |
| 9 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 10 | The driver tapped it nervously with a forefinger to guide the man 's eyes to it . |
| 11 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 12 | Although there was no direct reference to the Rose Bowl , Folly found herself part of a group discussing the hypothetical marketing problems of a small floristry business . |
| 13 | Her soldier companion urged her forward along a gully , which they crawled along until a gap between two boulders gave them a clear view of the landscape . |
| 14 | The man took her aside for a moment . |
| 15 | We got in and the Negro driver gunned it away without a word . |
| 16 | His increasingly independent protégée locked herself away in a London dance studio for three weeks perfecting what was to be one of the most talked about dance routines of the pop year . |
| 17 | When in the winter of 838 – 9 Louis the German rebelled openly , the emperor crushed him completely in a swift campaign , and sent him back to Bavaria . |
| 18 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 19 | ROCK star Dave Stewart was yesterday declared a civic hero in the city he quit as a teenager after years of school bullying pushed him close to a nervous breakdown . |
| 20 | Needless to say the Herald proved itself admirably with a few lessons learned for next time . |
| 21 | Now , Woolwich having won that litigation , the revenue asserts that it was never under any obligation to repay the money , and that it in fact repaid it only as a matter of grace . |
| 22 | Could it be that her mother sent her there with a hot pie or pasty for her father ? |
| 23 | Mother bought it occasionally as a treat for Sunday tea . ’ |
| 24 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |