Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The casualty team worked extremely hard to save them but after an hour and a half we had to abandon
2 The man stopped a foot away from him and for a moment or two William stopped struggling .
3 It was shortly after this that her mother approached her and in a voice that she rarely used to her , she said , ‘ Agnes , I …
4 That , along with the kicks and punches shown , has to be practised , and there is no better place to do it than in a kick-boxing or Thai boxing class .
5 The kusimanse , a dwarf mongoose from West Africa , confronted with a chicken 's egg , will put its fore-legs over it and with a vigour that would not disgrace an American footballer , hurl it backwards through its splayed hind legs .
6 We drove across it and through an arch where a conscript in a shabby uniform saluted the car as it passed .
  Next page