Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [prep] a [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the scent was old and after a time they went on again . |
| 2 | ‘ I was free and in a way I was happy . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It was really good and really exciting but in a way it was also like a flashback to 1983 or something , because I still wanted to do completely different songs to everyone else ! |
| 4 | None of the colony would talk about warm and after a while she stopped asking . |
| 5 | Sophie looked aghast and for a moment they stared at each other . |
| 6 | It was the first time she had ever warned him off anything private and for a moment he looked puzzled and embarrassed . |
| 7 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 8 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 9 | As a colleague you 're deficient but as a neighbour you 're marvellous . |
| 10 | ‘ It sounds terrible but for a while you felt like the local people were to blame . ’ |
| 11 | he was tired , he 's got this cold coming on but he said you can be in here so long but after a while you feel as though you 've got to come out , you need to get out ! |
| 12 | I 'd like to propose the Labour motion because I think that this actually , these issues are very important and in a moment I shall say why I think they are . |
| 13 | He was so loving and in a moment I had bared my few troubles , and felt it almost criminal to worry him with one 's little difficulties . |
| 14 | I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy . |
| 15 | The boy was ragged and dirty and for a moment he stood transfixed staring at Hari and Will as though he could n't believe his eyes . |
| 16 | This was no small step for one so young but for a woman it was more remarkable since she was the first woman solicitor in Sheffield . |