Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months ago she sent me a letter , informing me that during a recent visit to All Saints church , Gresford , she had discovered that the church contained a standing stone . |
| 2 | Ferguson explained : ‘ Lawrie told me that under a new regulation Ince must join the squad anyway . |
| 3 | On one occasion a man sat next to me and after a preliminary bit of footsie , he invited me to slip my hand into his pants . |
| 4 | These were doubtless satisfactory for the individuals who had collected them and for a short period of time , until perhaps superseded by rulings that were seen to be more appropriate . |
| 5 | The generations of Marxists who have lived through the grievous experience of Fascism and who , in another order of things , have experienced Stalinist degeneration , appraise the concept of democracy in a different way [ from Lenin ] , and not in opposition to socialism and communism , but as a road towards them and as a main component of them . |
| 6 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 7 | There is no liability under Sections 2 and 3 of this Policy for loss or damage by theft or attempted theft from the Home unless the following requirements are met by you or by a responsible person acting on your behalf : |
| 8 | Alcohol is a poor way of getting a long sleep as its diuretic effect wakes you because of a full bladder . |
| 9 | You are allowed to keep them but in a centred box . |
| 10 | He says it 's entirely the fault of the green man and he does n't approve of his ideas at all really and only backs them because of a natural wish to support his daughter . |
| 11 | You had no business to talk to her except through a qualified Steward … |
| 12 | Apart from reviews , nothing seemed to have been written about her except for a sympathetic article by Richard Strachey in the London Mercury . |
| 13 | Until Margaret 's frantic visit four days earlier she 'd resolved to apply herself assiduously to her job in an attempt to exorcise Marcus Pritchard from her memory entirely , and Denmark had meant nothing to her except as a dark finger of land on a map pointing upwards into the North Sea . |
| 14 | For Emerson I972 was a fine year : with a full season in FI behind him and with a winning car , he drove with assurance , confidence and verve , though still finicky if conditions were not favourable to him , as at Monaco in the rain . |
| 15 | Panic seized him and with a sudden curse he turned away from the wicket-gate of Clark 's Wharf and gestured at the others to get away . |
| 16 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 17 | A loose stone unsteadied her and with a little cry of surprise , she fell . |
| 18 | He 'll have it off her and into a good Catholic home quick as blinking , the poor little basket , and you 'll not have sight nor sound of it , and nor the mother , I should n't think . ’ |
| 19 | I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street . |
| 20 | Whatever the reasons for these changes , be they because of a hostile government , new technology or the European dimension , we must respond and change if we are to survive as a creditable organization . |
| 21 | Therefore property passed to him when after a reasonable length of time he had failed to object . |
| 22 | Rodney James Chapman , a director of the company , asked an industrial tribunal to lift the prohibition notice , but the tribunal upheld it except for a small area where the quarry might be worked but only under a safety system agreed by and worked out with the Inspectorate . |
| 23 | Although subjects in the study could almost all subsequently remember seeing the weapon they were worse at identifying the person holding it than in a comparable condition where the subjects had heard an ordinary conversation followed by a person passing through the room carrying a pen . |
| 24 | Hundreds of organisations have realised that an independent weather service can give them exactly the information they need , when they need it and for a realistic cost . |
| 25 | Next to it and with a connecting door , was a small kitchen about ten feet by eight . |
| 26 | And anyway , even those inside tennis circles who admired his talent , believed that the little known Czech was squandering it and on a one-way trip to Reggie Perrin 's Obscuresville , Arizona . |
| 27 | It was almost at this moment , too , that the door was thrust open and the indignant lady stood within it and in a loud voice proclaimed in her most officious manner : ‘ When you have come to yourself enough to apologise , Peggy , I 'll see you upstairs in my room . |
| 28 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 29 | Once he has found a group , the male stays with it but at a reasonable distance of perhaps 30 or 40 m ( 100–130 ft ) . |
| 30 | In other words a good mirror signal manoeuvre routine , however you apply it but in a particular order , which gives a discipline , so that you 're keeping yourselves out of the problems that other people may give you if you allow them to . |