Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mum 's a bit like that , she goes to a car boot sale every week now . |
| 2 | No , I always get up an well , most of the time she sleeps to a time plan . |
| 3 | She sits at a tea table with MR . |
| 4 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 5 | She dresses in a cat suit ( which she even wears in the bath ) , she eats raw fish on the floor , and sits on the garden wall at night , howling . |
| 6 | She says she lives on a housing estate on the outskirts of Mansfield . |
| 7 | She flinches as a machine gun stutters nearby , then wanders over to talk to her budgies , Niki and Nikica . |
| 8 | She lies in a glass box in front of one of the side altars separating the school chapel from the one the nuns use , both fronting onto the heavily railed-Off sanctuary , surrounded by dusty wax flowers and palms and night-lights winking in ruby glass containers . |
| 9 | There is also a contrast between the forge and Satis House as the house is barricaded and the inside is all dark so Pip has to be led by candlelight to Miss Havisham and when he first sees her all in white she looks like a fairy godmother but as he looks closer he sees her decay and yellowness . |
| 10 | ’ She looks like a Scripture mistress out to grass . ’ |
| 11 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 12 | ‘ There she blows with a distance record for corks . ’ |
| 13 | If she moves into a council home of her own , her rent is paid direct through the unified housing benefit . |
| 14 | At first she was n't so keen , always complaining of tiredness or soreness or emotional unease ; but these days , as Odilo says again and again to all his friends ( and the compliment , I think , is pitched decorously high ) , she bangs like a shithouse door in a gale . |
| 15 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 16 | Instead , she argues for a socialization theory which sees the individual as ‘ a function of what people around her expect her to be , and what the over-all situation in which she is acting implies that she is ’ ( 1973 : 395 ) . |
| 17 | In the water , she rolls into a standing position , still in the star shape , and opens her legs wide . |
| 18 | You know she works for a choir school ? |
| 19 | Well she 's worked she works for a tour operator , she worked for a |
| 20 | She works as a Consultant Haematologist at the Haemophilia Centre and Haemostasis Unit at the Royal Free Hospital , London . |
| 21 | the girls of my school have to take the place entirely of the mother of the family ; the families are generally large ; the woman goes out in the morning , she works in a pickle house , if she is a better class woman she goes out charring , or she goes out step cleaning during the day and the little girl takes the place of the mother of the family . |
| 22 | She comes from a farming background , but did secretarial courses to enable her to work in the city . ’ |
| 23 | Alternatively , will it be used primarily by an individual , teaching himself/herself the language as he/she works with a language assistant ? |
| 24 | Fourteen fucking quid fifty a pair and one of them disappears on a charity night ! ’ |
| 25 | Top : The excitement of a new pond will quickly wane if it turns into a disaster area overnight . |
| 26 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 27 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 28 | That 's a great satisfaction to everybody , it goes to a car pound , and then you have to go there and pay your sixty dollars or whatever it is to get it out . |
| 29 | He goes to a day centre three days a week but it would help if he could have a two- or three-week holiday somewhere every now and again . |
| 30 | When he comes back he goes on a hunger strike for chicken . |