Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so basically he 's still there and they 've got rid of me making it as an excuse but Charles as partner is his brother , Nicholas . |
| 2 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 3 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 4 | Do n't think the morality of it troubles me for an instant . |
| 5 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |
| 6 | ‘ T is already in a state of uproar , ready for that ambitious husband of hers to pluck it like an over-ripe plum , rotting and falling from the tree , and — ’ |
| 7 | But many of us saw it as an approach which emphasised the need to allow the faith of Christ to be incarnated within particular culture and Sir Paul , the former Archbishop of New Zealand took the same stand point as a Maori , in his own address and called delegates present to speak and act as people of hope and to respond sensitively to economic and environment progility and isolation , not only in the Pacific but wherever they are . |
| 8 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll live with it , ’ Luke answered somewhat grimly , waiting for her to precede him into an empty lift as the door slid open . |
| 10 | He had liked it terrifically when he had seen it before but had n't wanted to say : it seemed girlish to him to think anything of an animal . |
| 11 | She reached up , holding his face between her hands , drawing his mouth back to hers to kiss him with an open-mouthed urgency that sent them both spinning out of control . |