Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The convention of showing a part of something and implying the whole . |
| 2 | were the judges Mrs got the highest number of lots and won the cup is it |
| 3 | To designate the support of the notion " beautiful " one must make the adjective incident to another word , normally a substantive , as in a beautiful painting , because the notion of " beautiful " itself can be said of anything that strikes the speaker as having this quality : a beautiful sunset , a beautiful house , a beautiful stallion , a beautiful thought , etc . |
| 4 | Detective Superintendent Pat Crossan said : ‘ Mrs Wignall must have gone over it 1,000 times in her mind but she ca n't think of anything that triggered the attack . |
| 5 | ‘ They have to feel comfortable , with their trunk nestling against something that feels a bit like mum . |
| 6 | Today , with powerful venoms added , they have become a formidable defence system against anything that enters the domain of the spiny fish . |
| 7 | I thanked him for everything and left the orbit of his beaming smile knowing that I was included in the universality of stupid behaviour . |
| 8 | He 's signed er for everything and seen the solicitor . |
| 9 | Of the numerous formulations available for expressing a given message , a speaker or writer will normally opt for one that makes the flow of information clearer in a given context . |
| 10 | The fretwork is well up to Valley Arts standard , with nothing that offends the eye or fingers in any way . |
| 11 | But the look on Vanessa Delaney 's face as she watched her son edge his way through the tables was tinged with something that had no place in such a mundane event . |
| 12 | He glimpsed the Gates then — ‘ Ornate and tipped with something that catches the light and gleams , ’ he thought . |
| 13 | Is it gon na be turning into something that looks a bit like a survey do you think ? |
| 14 | To transform a scholarly consensus into something that appears the obsession of a disreputable fringe group requires more than accidental bias . |
| 15 | I have big hands and I need to be able to grab onto something and bend the shit out of those strings . |
| 16 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 17 | The most obvious initiatives are to seek an idea from someone or to put an idea yourself ( see Seeking ideas on page 152 and Idea-having on page 86 ) . |
| 18 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |
| 19 | Follow me all the way round and we have Emma here who is erm who Just keep on flooding round everybody and have a tray each . |
| 20 | But Mr Donovan 's manager , Mr Richard East , said last night that both sides had agreed to hold discussions ‘ to achieve a satisfactory outcome for everybody and to enable the magazine to continue to publish ’ . |
| 21 | YOU long to shower gifts on everyone and hate the thought of being called a Scrooge . |
| 22 | When you reply to somebody or send an acceptance or |
| 23 | It had shrunk , back to something that approximated the size of a human being . |
| 24 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 25 | If this behavior is inherent in the sample , very little can be done about it except to change the exciting wavelength to one that reduces the effect . |
| 26 | Dreaming Lee took to this camera immediately and held it delicately and lifted the front-flap and looked through it in order to focus on something and take a picture of it . |
| 27 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 28 | All well and good , and he had no real objection to anything that rid the world of a townful of sandrat trash , but it was a pretty inelegant manoeuvre . |
| 29 | ‘ He wins at everything and enjoys a flutter on the horses as well as his football pools . ’ |
| 30 | I wish they would adopt the positive principle of looking at something and seeing the good in it — seeing how it can be improved by building up the positive aspects . |