Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 2 | Enya does n't go in for intellectual analysis of her music much , but when I tell her these first reactions to her heart- breakingly beautiful new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , she lights up with a certain delighted relief that two years of studio work seems to be hitting the right target . |
| 3 | In truth , her performance in winning at Edgbaston probably told us far more about how she is likely to make out when she tees up as a professional than could ever have been gauged from an isolated week among those playing for pay . |
| 4 | She falls in with a tawdry crowd and finds her values jolted and sympathies unwillingly engaged . |
| 5 | Hannah does that a lot , right , she goes to America and she comes back with an American accent , she goes to Scotland , she comes back with a Scottish accent , oh |
| 6 | A couple of hundred yards downstream it gushes out below a ceremonial arch into the Brigach . |
| 7 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 8 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 9 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 10 | THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car . |
| 11 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 12 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 13 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 14 | A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age . |
| 15 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 16 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 17 | But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood . |
| 18 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 19 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 20 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 21 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 22 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 23 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
| 24 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |
| 25 | Even Ivan Illich , though their opening sentence contains an echo of his ‘ the medical establishment has become a major threat to health ’ , is ignored in the text : he scrapes in with a mere single source reference . |
| 26 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 27 | It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions . |
| 28 | He starts out with a full clip of ammo , but watch out ( Beadle 's about ) , it 's limited — make sure you hit 'im first time . |
| 29 | He hands over to a young man with a toothless grin under a Coca-Cola hat who has been elected locally as the group 's ‘ popular educator ’ . |
| 30 | 7 He ends up in a weak position , open to many follow-up techniques . |