Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 2 | Lever stared at the parcel a moment , his eyes burning with curiosity , then looked up again , smiling . |
| 3 | Donna stood at the window a moment longer , gazing out at the people in the street below . |
| 4 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 5 | As Patrick and Senga strolled into the house a few moments later , Katherine suddenly heard her son sneeze explosively . |
| 6 | Coleridge addressed to the stream a delicate poem in the Bowles manner , describing the ‘ scatter 'd cots and peaceful hamlet ’ he saw , as well as a band of schoolchildren launching their ‘ paper navies ’ into the water . |
| 7 | At the banquet and on behalf of the Company , Sir Crisp presented to the School a silver cup and cover " as a memento of this great occasion and an emblem of good luck in the future " . |
| 8 | As Moustaine emerged from the cookhouse a small Scotsman called Haines was still chewing . |
| 9 | A spokesman for Glenlight said without the subsidy a sixty-six per cent increase in freight charges would have been passed on to clients from tomorrow . |
| 10 | Dr Pirnia came to the palace a few days before the departure to say goodbye to the Queen . |
| 11 | As required in May 1990 [ see p. 37467 ] , the PDS submitted to the government a report on the party 's assets on July 23 . |
| 12 | As Harry stood on the platform a minute or so later , watching the train pull out , he could see him through the brightly lit window , still immersed in his paperback , oblivious , it seemed , to Harry 's departure . |
| 13 | Wimpey came into the business a year later , and our birthday is in 1993 . |
| 14 | None was more famous or strange than the notorious Victory Arch ; and in his latest book , THE MONUMENT * , Samir al-Khalil weaves round the arch a fascinating and thoughtful study of totalitarianism and art . |
| 15 | One evening Mrs Hollidaye brought to the bedroom a long wooden box . |
| 16 | The indications are that throughout his time as chairman Howson put into the factory a good deal of family money ( his wife was wealthy by inheritance ) . |
| 17 | As Frau Nordern went into the office a babble of voices rose behind her , still audible , although muted , as the door was closed by the man with the cigar . |
| 18 | One day Tod took from the trash a framed certificate and went and hung it on the toilet doornail . |
| 19 | It is as if Minton saw in the gun a portent of his own artistic impotence . |
| 20 | Antonio appeared from the shop a moment later , carrying a small package which he presented to his wife . |
| 21 | In 1853 the English Congregational Chapel-building Society was founded to help local chapels and two years later the Rev. J. C. Gallaway published for the Society a tract on Practical Hints on the Erection of Places of Public Worship . |
| 22 | Carson arrived at the zoo an hour later and bought a layout map from a kiosk just inside the South gate . |
| 23 | Aung San saw in the Japanese a strength which could overthrow the British Empire . |
| 24 | Further , Baldwin discerns in the controversy an overlap of class anxieties and pragmatic political considerations — for example the wish to encourage home industries and discourage the buying of foreign goods ( Sumptuary Legislation , ch. 5 , ‘ The Reign of Elizabeth ’ ) . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's a Chris comes into the bistro a lot . ’ |
| 26 | John Davis brings to the school a varied background of knowledge , based in the fields of the medical sciences and communication skills . |
| 27 | Mr Forrester remained to the end a most active and enthusiastic bookseller . |
| 28 | Lucien slunk from the court a tortured thing . |
| 29 | Taking that principle as a starting point , an attempt was made in Belfast to assign to the fieldworker a clear social identity which allowed him or her to claim a role in the community . |
| 30 | Director Peter Wier brings to the film a sense of mysticism but , better still draws sensitive performance from his largely inexperienced cast . |