Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least Clinger had a reasonable congregation , half a dozen confirmation candidates for me and a woman running a youth club . |
| 2 | She fetched some home-made cakes for them and a glass of lemonade each , and while they ate and drank opened her parcels . |
| 3 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps I also used these silly criticisms of mine as a kind of buffer against the way I was starting to feel about you . |
| 5 | Oh yes , it was a leather er erm a piece of leather with three tongs on it and a handle to it , and er you used to have this strap on your hand . |
| 6 | It 's got scratching noises on it and a bassline that does n't follow the rest of the song . |
| 7 | Gedge would justifiably argue that his songs were neither personal statements about himself or a manifesto on which others should base their lives . |
| 8 | There 's a lot of expectations on us and a lot of pressure . |
| 9 | ‘ She used to make them run round getting things for her not my father ; he used to make her get things for him but a lot of them would run up and get her cardigan for her . ’ |
| 10 | And there 's a field there , and there 's nothing , a couple of ponies in it and a caravan and when one of those died is it last year , or the year before there was one of the biggest funerals ever seen ! |
| 11 | unclear lot cleaner , I got ten shillings from them and a shilling from the next door for cleaning their windowsill every morning . |
| 12 | It is possible for there to be unrestricted-use three party debtor-creditor-supplier agreements , but the requirements are more exacting as seen under s12 ( c ) : an unrestricted-use credit agreement which is made by the creditor under pre-existing arrangements between himself and a person ( the " supplier " ) other than the debtor in the knowledge that the credit is to be used to finance a transaction between the debtor and the supplier . |
| 13 | The attendees were given a large package of data , including a precis of interests about themselves and a questionnaire which was completed by 75% of the audience . |
| 14 | They occupy a cove with the sea and steep cliffs behind them and a sailing boat anchored to the right . |
| 15 | ‘ You set standards for yourself that a paragon could only reach for . |
| 16 | He had not objected to being photographed but was upset to see photographs of himself and a feature in the Sunday Mail of 4 October 1990 headed ‘ The sheer agony of a food allergy . ’ |
| 17 | When the DUP was being planned in late 1971 , Desmond Boal kept pushing Unionists such as Austin Ardill to join the new party and received assurances from him and a number of others that they would join . |
| 18 | the lad with the Porsche offered three thousand with four brand new tyres on it and a year 's M O T , that 's what he offered when the |