Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Are you secure enough as a parent , comfortable enough with your authority to use it empathetically — firmly when the occasion calls for it , lightly when it is appropriate to be tolerant ? |
2 | We can not afford to get them all here for a costume call . ’ |
3 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
4 | Someone had called him this more as an insult than a compliment but Francis took a liking to it and you will find salamanders carved all over his palaces . |
5 | Nor is it stable enough for a faith without foundations . |
6 | The Springers have now decided to sell and do it all again on a plot not far away — but this time with an indoor pool for year-round use and half-doors so children can be kept within sight of the kitchen and gym . |
7 | How else should a person look , while , in the course of a single ceremony , he kisses everything goodbye — just blows it all away in a prodigal storm of confetti and rice ? |
8 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
9 | The operating system to hold it all together as an application transparent , single system image , is the Chorus V.4-compatible micro-kernel-based system , on top of the ISIS message broadcasting algorithms from Cornell University ( UX No 398 ) . |
10 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
11 | MODEL Lisa Butcher got away from it all yesterday with a mystery man . |
12 | If , like me , you prefer biodegradable pots , nestle them close together in a seedtray to ensure that their walls stay moist . |