Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the torrid heat of the afternoon the village seemed deserted so I hammered on an iron gate . |
| 2 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |
| 3 | This service is free if you go to a justice of the peace ) . |
| 4 | The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will . |
| 5 | She would not travel on the underground or in an aeroplane , and felt panicky if she went into a department store and was too far from the door or windows . |
| 6 | now he passed that on , that had , sort of knowledge on through the people in the shop okay , if you , soon as that link gets broken and you go into a shop something like erm Burtons okay , big retail shop like Burtons , you go in there you 'll have a manager in there and assistants and so on , but their background knowledge has nothing to do with tailoring , nothing at all |
| 7 | Every time I get the hang of an idea it suddenly turns into something different and I turn into a fool ! |
| 8 | ‘ During the first walk we saw a weka , but the second time was much more exciting because we sat on a log and waited for a kiwi to return to its nest . ’ |
| 9 | The sexually-transmitted diseases ( e.g. syphilis , gonorrhoea , AIDS and non-specific urethritis ) are so-called because they occur as a result of direct sexual contact with an infected partner . |
| 10 | It is not even clear whether they travelled in a Japanese or a Chinese ship : but either way they made secret contacts with Thakin friends who agreed to accompany them back to Japan . |
| 11 | Even the New Forest Hunt master admitted it was wrong when he spoke at a rival press conference . |
| 12 | You have to be careful when you walk under a ladder or |
| 13 | Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider , she may swat you by mistake . |
| 14 | The Minister for Health sought to defend the indefensible when she wrote in a recent letter to The Guardian about the abolition of the tests . |
| 15 | It is also possible that it leads to a change in the Pattern of bequests . |
| 16 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 17 | This camp was so strong that it remained as a major fortress for the Garonne region for centuries to follow . |
| 18 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 19 | One day , in one of these tiny streets , with shops on either side and with stalls of street vendors in front of them , the way was so crowded that I got to a place where it was impossible to move . |
| 20 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 21 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 22 | ‘ There are so many more cross-border deals today , and if you can speak German or French or Japanese and you go for a job against somebody who is equally qualified but only speaks English , you will get hired . ’ |
| 23 | The key issue is straightforward and it arises from a simple fact . |
| 24 | Well we we ca n't say o overall but we started in a very small way but on average Dennis we raise in the region of two thousand pounds a year . |
| 25 | I do n't recall , well in fact I 'm being sarcastic because I know for a , we know that it was n't in the manifesto for nineteen ninety two . |
| 26 | It struck me as incongruous when I heard of a parish church , in a commuter town south of London , which was to enact a nativity play . |
| 27 | THE CREW of a Glasgow ice-cream van escaped serious injury when their vehicle was fire-bombed as they served in a quiet street in the Ballieston area of the city . |
| 28 | Do you it 's amazing when he stops at a Happy Eater to have a fry-up , that there happens to be television cameras and the world 's press there . |
| 29 | His fingers were tobacco-stained as he fiddled with a biro . |
| 30 | Business literature is therefore vital for understanding business , which is one of the major forces in modern culture , but it is more limited when it comes to a study of the consumer and his or her relation to the object . |