Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says 'e feels like a young man again . ’ |
| 2 | Increases in the volume of shipping are usually accommodated for some time by existing docks and harbours before the pressure on them leads to a heavy capital investment in fresh and usually lengthy building . |
| 3 | Michelle is obviously a sunlust person in that respect and depending on whether she goes to a main package resort in Spain or perhaps a beach in India , she can either be a psychocentric sunlust person or an alocentric sunlust person . |
| 4 | This is her second book , slimmer but by no means slighter ; complex computer stuff that she turns into a fun thriller . |
| 5 | She plays as a middle hitter . |
| 6 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 7 | She sits in a soft curve at her easel , gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky . |
| 8 | ‘ She writes like an avenging angel , with a freshness , vigour and zest for sex ( but never for sleaze ) that belie her years . ’ |
| 9 | Her parents are dead , so she lives with an unkind aunt and her children . |
| 10 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 11 | She felt nothing for me ; she has already forgotten me ; she lives in a drowsy round of smoking , going to the baths , painting her eyelids and drinking coffee . |
| 12 | ‘ She lives in a small alleyway just past The Magpie and Crown off Watling Street . ’ |
| 13 | Now she lives in a small flat in Ladbroke Grove , with a young woman she says is her niece . |
| 14 | She lives in a Victorian cottage in south London with her husband Roger and their baby daughter Hannah . |
| 15 | She lives in a remote village , ten kilometres from a paved road . |
| 16 | She lives in a terraced house in Lancashire with her mum and dad and her cat , Arthur . |
| 17 | She lives in a mock tudor mansion in Cheadle , Greater Manchester . |
| 18 | She lives in a top floor flat in Oxford and has had several accidents on the stairs leaving her very unsure about going out on her own . |
| 19 | He or she lives in an impersonal world , out of touch with other people . |
| 20 | She lives in an old house . |
| 21 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 22 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 23 | She lies in an open corner of the churchyard , where she can breathe the air from the moors . |
| 24 | She looks like a stupid bitch too ! |
| 25 | She looks like a bloody dog . |
| 26 | Under the harsh highlights , she looks like a road-crash victim , stretched out on the tarmac , blonde hair fanning around her . |
| 27 | Look at Annabel she looks like a little snow baby , darling ! |
| 28 | Without benefit of make-up and designer clothes , she looks like a twelve-year-old boy , the way most models do : fresh-faced , scrubbed , clean-limbed . |
| 29 | She looks like a double helping of pink blancmange , and about as exciting . |
| 30 | ‘ She is young , she looks like an ordinary child . |