Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street . |
| 2 | The nature of this will vary greatly depending on a rose 's ancestry , while its appreciation is a very personal matter . |
| 3 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 4 | As with malt whisky , much depends on a distiller 's source of water as well as how and where he ages his spirit . |
| 5 | As Lisa pulled the door open Josey stepped out into the night … and literally came within a hair 's breadth of walking straight into the tall dark figure who was striding up the path . |
| 6 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 7 | Teachers who have a severely handicapped pupil in an ordinary class can be greatly helped by a teacher 's aid , especially in first-school work and in those areas of the curriculum in the secondary school that involve practical processes such as science and geography . |
| 8 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 9 | The whole strategy , apparently conceived at a leader 's policy committee meeting the previous Sunday , as a way of marking Charter 88 's day of constitutional action , was bungled . |
| 10 | They designed job descriptions , terms of employment and time sheets for support workers ; ( they were to be paid at a rate equivalent to home helps and care attendants , with increased payments for unsocial hours ; there was also to be a lower rate of payment for workers merely sleeping at a sufferer 's house , compared with providing active care ) . |
| 11 | Polly thrust it back into her bag , embarrassed at being caught doing things more properly done in a ladies ' cloakroom , and furious at her own embarrassment . |
| 12 | The field of pictorial and explicit pornography is generally regarded as a man 's province . |
| 13 | And they stabbed at him and caused his whole body to tremble as if in shame because , in a way , he knew she was right : his inadequacy to face his future was there for even himself to see ; he had considered volunteering in order to avoid the responsibility of making the choice either of going to University to read for a degree in English Literature or of just plumping for a teacher 's training college course . |
| 14 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 15 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 16 | Z Company were just returning from a fortnight 's well-earned leave while , as always , HQ Company were administering , paying , feeding , clothing and transporting the rest of the battalion . |
| 17 | Similar reactions were reported throughout Africa , where Mandela was already seen as a people 's hero at the time of his imprisonment in 1962 . |
| 18 | Let a wee thought just peep in a man 's mind at dawn on the Mull of Oa and it 's all the gossip at the Butt of Lewis by noon . |
| 19 | A tank cutter has an adjustable arm which scribes the hole and is best used with a carpenter 's brace . |
| 20 | Family honour and pride , which are so easily upset by a woman 's actions , are far less easily affected by a man 's errors . |
| 21 | It surprised him a little ; he would not have thought her so easily affected by a man 's touch . |
| 22 | Questions about what may be termed the aesthetics of a text continue to be posed , even though the aesthetic is no longer tied to a text 's autonomous integrity . |
| 23 | There is also a short section on the area around Milan , or , at least , those pads of it that can be comfortably reached in a day 's road or rail travel . |
| 24 | ‘ Ecstasy has similar effects , and this song could easily sink into a youngster 's subconscious . ’ |
| 25 | Digital maps are more easily adapted to a user 's needs , especially when automated cartography is combined with spatial database management within the context of a Geographical Information System ( Chapter 7 ) . |
| 26 | After 30 seconds or so , he stops and rubs his left hand across his face in the way I do when I 've just woken from a night 's sleep . |
| 27 | Your child has just appeared at a Children 's Hearing and the members of the Panel have decided that your child should be placed on supervision to a social worker and that he/she should live away from home for a time . |
| 28 | There is an increase in risk due to irradiation of the breast , but this is likely to be small and is best estimated from a woman 's age and dose of irradiation . |
| 29 | SD1 carbs are best sourced from a breaker 's yard as they are readily available for about £25 per pair . |
| 30 | More significant are the numbers of votes actually cast , since these enter into the calculation of the quota normally required for a candidate 's election . |