Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The international economy consists of relations between these national entities and is shaped by them rather than by a world system which dominates and determines national conditions . |
| 2 | ‘ I received a lot of abuse when I left Brookside , not ME personally but in a way just as bad . |
| 3 | Azar called me over and with a flourish sat me down on a plastic deckchair at the front of the ring of spectators . |
| 4 | " Mother Benedicta told me yesterday that in a year or two I 'm to go to the village of Yelton . |
| 5 | Father had told me repeatedly that as a woman my role was to surrender to a man : that submission and compliance would be the meaning of my life . |
| 6 | The curtain of rain caught them up and in a moment soaked them to the skin . |
| 7 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 8 | Fifteen years later , it became obvious that Lord Sagramoso was seducing the hereditary lords of neighbouring star systems — mainly agricultural ones — to turn preachers into compost and swear fealty to him rather than to a deity thirty thousand light years distant . |
| 9 | Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty . |
| 10 | Ramsey was sent to two dames ' schools in succession but learnt so little that his parents took him away and for a year he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 11 | Rose tried to throw her off and for a moment they became an indistinguishable tangle of clawing arms and jerking feet . |
| 12 | The tall Finn and Peter Horbury together raised her up and in a moment or two her eyelids fluttered open . |
| 13 | Mary resisted the temptation to answer her back and after a moment 's silence Mum continued . |
| 14 | They got her upstairs and into a room with a large , iron bed and a lot of heavy furniture . |
| 15 | Choose a person , blindfold her , give her the cushion and then turn her round and round a couple of times so she is unaware as to which direction she is in . |
| 16 | I can see them there as in a picture when , for the last time , arthritis having finally prevailed , they sat quietly together in the sun contemplating a magnificent crop of potatoes spread out to dry — the final gift of that bounteous old garden . |
| 17 | But even then , they can not avoid it altogether and after a while , their digestions can no longer tolerate it . |
| 18 | Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later . |
| 19 | Amazingly , Prudence spelled it correctly and without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 20 | We 're a little bit topsy and turvy cos er our programme researcher Sophie er is er is not with us today and as a result we 're a bit topsy and turvy and I have n't got all the papers associated with Foster and Allen but we 'll get all the details from F two lads when they come in . |