Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She holds up a sepia portrait of a turn of the century belle in a high-necked Russian blouse , standing before the backdrop of a painted Arcadia , with balustrades and beckoning groves . |
| 2 | She holds up a Waitrose bag . |
| 3 | family she says quite an eye opener an they had write lines if they did anything wrong one boy just I reckon she could carried him but |
| 4 | In this way she sets out a research agenda for applications-related research which serves a similar function to the spatial analysis research agenda set out by Openshaw at the beginning of Part Two . |
| 5 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 6 | He holds up a cricket bat . |
| 7 | Apart from that , he has n't a driving licence , and he was at school on Wednesday afternoon . ’ |
| 8 | In Leetham ( Henry ) & Sons Ltd v Johnstone-White [ 1907 ] 1 Ch 322 Farwell LJ commented : … a man whose business is a corn miller 's business , and who requires to protect that , can not , if he has also a furniture business , require the covenantee who enter into his service as an employee in the corn business to enter into covenants restricting him from entering into competition with him in the furniture business also , because it is not required for the protection of the corn business in which the man is employed , however much it may be beneficial to the individual person , the owner both of the corn business and of the furniture business . |
| 9 | It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! ! |
| 10 | He describes how a road network is digitized and subsequently analysed using allocation , districting and routeing algorithms . |
| 11 | He asks for credit terms and , at the trader 's suggestion , he fills in a finance company 's hire purchase proposal form , which is in fact an offer made by the customer and addressed to the finance company to acquire the item from the finance company on hire purchase terms . |
| 12 | It bounces off a back rib and exits through Pauline 's back . |
| 13 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 14 | If it says so a sk sound usually just S K desk ask disk frisk . |
| 15 | It rules out a star cluster and requires an object of stellar dimensions or less . |
| 16 | It includes both an ObjectMaster Editor for non-programmers to build graphical apps and an ObjectMaster Application Folder that acts as a central repository for application modules that can be reused , recombined or extended to build additional application prototypes and ultimately components in production applications . |
| 17 | X-ray diffraction ( XRD ) analysis ( see glossary ) is ideally suited to this sort of problem as it requires only a minute sample and , most important , it identifies the mineral or compound present . |
| 18 | Well looking back on it now it seems almost a life time away but it 's amazing just how well you can remember those far off days . |
| 19 | The club wanted Macari in place for Wednesday 's UEFA Cup tie against Sporting Lisbon but it seems only a resignation letter from the Stoke City manager will pave the way for a speedy conclusion to what 's becoming a long drawn out affair . |
| 20 | From his pocket , he pulls out an exercise book and turns to a page with a map of the world on it . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd better go , before he sends out a search party or something . ’ |
| 22 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 23 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |
| 24 | It puts perhaps a kind face on things : but sometimes families do just get into dreadful muddles , with no one doing anything particularly awful . |
| 25 | As he follows up a security leak about a number of suspicious deaths in the nuclear industry , around him a more macabre series of murders are taking place . |
| 26 | Now he puts up an egg box . |
| 27 | fantastic it stirs up a hornets nest . |
| 28 | Due to the large farming industry in his area , nitrates are high , so a nitrate filter has been incorporated , based on the DIY model made by Nick Dakin in PFK May ‘ 91 , and Jay uses a Nitragon when he carries out a water change . |
| 29 | He rolls up a dollar bill , and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something . |