Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout pregnancy I shall practise crouching on the dusty Axminster in my faded Laura Ashley smock while thinking of opening out like a flower . |
| 2 | LADY Victoria 's John Armstrong will be attempting to overcome the disappointment of missing out on a record sixth title at last weeks Trinity Regatta next weekend . |
| 3 | His practice of writing exclusively in a distinctive green ink was continued by his successors . |
| 4 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 5 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 6 | THE new captain of Preston Grasshoppers is none other than England lock WADE DOOLEY , which wold suggest that — at least at club level — the ‘ Blackpool Tower ’ has every intention of playing on for a little while . |
| 7 | Firstly , they bind a piece of writing together as a single entity , giving it a connectedness that makes it read as a whole rather than as a string of separate jottings . |
| 8 | So when women talk of coming out as a lesbian , I want to ask — can I come as a person first ? |
| 9 | Looking further into the future the railway still cherishes the hope of building back to a British Railway connection at Ruabon on the Chester-Shrewsbury line . |
| 10 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 11 | She would speak of the necessity of holding on to a framework of belief , a reasonable percentage of belie |
| 12 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 13 | But one problem which employers may face is employees ' reluctance to move to a cheaper area as they can foresee the difficulty of moving back into a high-priced housing area later on . |
| 14 | But we 're concentrating this week and next week on the advocacy skill of standing up before a court . |
| 15 | The establishment of the PESC system , like the way Macmillan eased the Concorde project through the Cabinet Room , is an illustration of his tactic of modernizing madly behind a smokescreen of Edwardian charm and timeless tradition . |
| 16 | That type of putting back into a business context , is something which er we need to help the business come to terms with while they are growing in this new scheme of procuring work in a more formal and structured way . |
| 17 | To the extent that such approaches may suggest the desirability of changing over to a counter-force nuclear policy , they escape from the moral frying-pan of counter-city targeting into the strategic fire of counter-force , which has the twin disadvantages that it might put a premium on first strike and that it would in any case result in frightful civilian losses . |
| 18 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 19 | All all this sort of riding off at a |
| 20 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 21 | You know , it 's like I 'm suddenly there , just sort of plonked down in a place and I got to really struggle to remember how I got there . |
| 22 | But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look . |
| 23 | Whe , when we went to the one in Twickenham , James really like it sort of go out for a ni Indian meal and stuff . |
| 24 | Now , the seminar session that I 'm going to run , we can eith we 'll have Jeannie set up but we can sort of kick off with a discussion about topics that you want to cover in the revision |
| 25 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 26 | is it me or are they sort of going round in a circle of Elsa , Sarah and erm some other people , some of the other common lot cos erm they seem to be cuddling and hugging like a different one every day , have you noticed that ? |
| 27 | where his right hand , he 's a very confident music reader and plays but his left hand he 's merely sort of hangs there like a claw and plays the odd chord |
| 28 | The whole idea of erm a fax is to get the thing there quickly is n't it ? if it 's sort of sitting up on a desk for three days before they bring it down . |
| 29 | But still it 's an important paper that sort of broke away from a lot of the traditional thinking and led towards a lot more feminist stuff . |
| 30 | On one hand this angry commentary about what these women protesters had done to outrage all the people involved in Miss World , and on the other hand , my dad sort of crashed out in a chair because he was so exhausted from his work . |