Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh was watching them suspiciously from a nearby table . |
| 2 | Puritans like Harley and Dowsing regarded altars , statues , paintings , and stained glass not as aids to religious devotion , but as positive dangers to men 's souls , and they reacted to them rather as a modern-day Jew might do to a beautifully sculpted or painted swastika . |
| 3 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 4 | She turned Florence into the field and stood over the milk pails , stirring them slowly with a hazel stick . |
| 5 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 6 | I 'll judge marmosets if you catch me nicely in a weak moment on the end of a moribund week . |
| 7 | He went into the kitchen and returned with a plate of local delicacies which he offered me together with a little plate , a napkin and a finger-bowl . |
| 8 | Communication policies are changing rapidly , yet there is a need to assess them constantly from an ethical perspective . |
| 9 | He took off his spectacles and polished them thoughtfully with a red snuff-handkerchief . |
| 10 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 11 | Having selected the deeds and documents from the deeds packet , you then need to photocopy them , and pin them together with a front sheet , which is entitled " Epitome of Title " . |
| 12 | One 's called the Austin Special , and it 's really cool-looking with three hotted-up Danelectro-style lipstick tube pickups that you can either run as single-coils for that crinkly kind of clarity , or put them together for a humbucking sound . |
| 13 | Secure the wire ends by twisting them together for a short distance to prevent the turns trying to unwind themselves . |
| 14 | Previously they had lacked an identity , but the training period had welded them together into a cohesive fighting force with an intense pride in themselves and their unit . |
| 15 | It was also unduly limited in the kind of explanations it offered of the course of events , explanations which appealed overmuch to the actions and dispositions of individuals , stringing them together into a complex story of aims and intrigues . |
| 16 | So why not link them together in a grand Tichka Plateau to Jbel Toubkal trek ? the tantalisingly unknown descent of the Nfis went on our programme ‘ for immediate attention ’ and uniquely , we involved both Mohammed and Aziz in a co-operative venture . |
| 17 | Polyester : Polyester fibres , usually coated with synthetic resin to bond them together in a flat sheet . |
| 18 | Hastings had showed an interest in the Yarmouth fisheries , with the four main Kentish ports , long before the Conquest ; what the latter did eventually was to weld them together in a loose federation for supplying ship rather than knight service in return for limited privileges . |
| 19 | Put them together in a lonely hotel room to await the first night with a new lover . |
| 20 | The essential point is that if two beneficial mutations , A and B , occur in different individuals in the same population , sex and recombination can bring them together in a single descendant . |
| 21 | I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason . |
| 22 | Seem to put them away for a long while but |
| 23 | Leonora took out sweaters and shirts and underwear , putting them away with a vague feeling of trespass which failed to keep her from peeping into a folding leather picture frame lying at the bottom of the suitcase . |
| 24 | The shimmer of tears burned brightly in her eyes , and she rubbed them away with a trembling hand . |
| 25 | She rubbed them away with an angry fist . |
| 26 | Tears of pride stung her eyes and she brushed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 27 | She found that tears were trickling from her eyes , and dashed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 28 | The tears welled up into her eyes again and she dashed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 29 | Now , arriving in the safety of her own room , Maggie undressed , folding her clothes and putting them away with an unusual neatness for a fifteen year-old . |
| 30 | ‘ For some reason rooms were discounted from low-season rate to the point where we were virtually giving them away in a definite shoulder season . |