Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
| 2 | If , therefore , it is not clear whether a restriction applies to any transfer or only to a transfer to , say , a non-member , or to any type of disposition or only to a sale the narrower construction will be adopted . |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 4 | They will see it as getting in and out of a chair the right way . |
| 5 | and then after a while the acceleration reduces ? |
| 6 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 7 | ‘ That you ’ Proof of the identity of an accused exposing his/her person may be difficult and apart from an admission a witness is required to say that the man/woman in the court dock is the person who exposed their person . |
| 8 | But perhaps most severe of all are tests for susceptibility to motion sickness : they will be blindfolded , and have to move their heads and upper parts of the body back and forth or up and down ; and they will be pushed back and forward on a track every five seconds for 20 minutes . |
| 9 | ‘ Contracts in gross ’ , as they were called , had been considered by the Office as early as 1812 , but only very occasionally used and never for a project the size of the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | Of course , he did n't mean it , but just for a moment the implied tenderness in his words took her by the throat . |
| 11 | But once upon a time the ad pages of NME throbbed with the heady thrills of Loon pants ! |
| 12 | They varied in price , but usually around a pound a pair . |
| 13 | ‘ The Political Officer , ’ wrote Clifford , ‘ should be the Whisper behind the Throne , but never for an instant the Throne itself . ’ |