Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did get away with it a couple of times on this record . |
| 2 | It is well known that speakers of French have open to them a number of different ways of forming interrogatives ; for example , Coveney ( 1986 ) has distinguished five different variants of the wh interrogative , two of which are [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] . |
| 3 | However , on mother 's birthday which fell on 24th May , father would always bring home for her a bunch of lilies of the valley . |
| 4 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |
| 5 | Officers and officials returning to Britain after the American War of Independence took home with them a taste for madeira wine . |
| 6 | He is full of life an has brought home with him a number of foreign servants so that my house seems to have been removed to Paris . |
| 7 | ‘ These pensioners ’ preposterous kit calls forth from me a paraphrase of one of the toy Alsatian philosophe 's most renowned apophthegms , to whit , ‘ Hell is other people 's trousers ’ . |
| 8 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 9 | Now I 'm disappointed to see here before us a motion of group which report saying that he should receive the report . |
| 10 | Yet for them a description of the full circumstances of a misfortune or disaster is not sufficient in itself . |