Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 2 | That wave will send gradual ripples through the market — but it will not be a tidal wave — to float house-owners carelessly upwards before tipping them over into an angry sea of debt . |
| 3 | Grumbling under his breath at the lateness of the hour , and the fact that he was missing an important baseball game on TV , the super — who appeared to be of Polish extraction — nevertheless insisted on taking them up in an antiquated , dangerously shaky lift . |
| 4 | By bringing it out as an A-format , £4.99 , mass-market paperback we hope to attract a much wider readership . |
| 5 | At least she had not compounded her remark by backing it up with an astrologer 's predictions . |