Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 2 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 3 | This lane takes you up a hill , past the Chapel and out of the village . |
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| 6 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
| 7 | This case reduces them to a single principle , the ‘ neighbour principle ’ , which emerges as part of the ratio decidendi of the case . |
| 8 | This differentiation puts us in a place of desire and of choice . |
| 9 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 10 | CPRW believes this review provides it with a major opportunity to influence the Board 's future direction . |
| 11 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 12 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 13 | A short walk from this belvedere takes you to a wonderful steep wall which at its outer edge is taken by the final pitches of some famous harder routes like Spitophage Pervers and Dingomaniaque . |
| 14 | Be it nuking the world , winning at Brand 's Hatch , or wrestling with pixies , will all this fantasy turn you into a blob-shaped brain-dead computer-zombie ? |
| 15 | Then another child sorted them in a different way . |
| 16 | Women elsewhere , different women , living by another code provided them with a common and inexhaustible theme . |
| 17 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 18 | This approach presents us with a particular problem since we must ensure that the representative chosen provides us with a good insight into that political theory . |
| 19 | We 'll have another message to send them in a minute . ’ |
| 20 | It is possible that this statement commits us to a misnomer at the outset . |
| 21 | The boy was in Nunnery Lane when another youth asked him for a ride on the bike and never returned . |
| 22 | for those at the lowest levels , the quality of this transition places them in a severely restricted form of ‘ adulthood ’ . |
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| 24 | When the Miller has finished telling his tale , Chaucer characterizes its contents once more , this time describing it as a " " nyce cas " " , " a foolish state of affairs " ( 3855 ) : an apparently neutral moral description which nonetheless contrasts significantly with the more clearly marked " " harlotrye " " that has formerly been used to label the contents of the pair of fabliaux we are now halfway through . |
| 25 | This fact reminds me of a tale I was told in the States recently whereby President Clinton and his wife Hilary and Major Kay drove into a garage , quite why this was necessary the tale does not relate , as the petrol or gas attendant began to fill up the limousine , Hilary Clinton leaped out of the car and became involved in an animated conversation with the petrol attendant . |
| 26 | Although it has none of your words on it , nor no other mark of you , I have by slow degrees and probably much self-deception turned it into a love letter from you . |
| 27 | This latter award reminds me of a key feature of being the best and that is teamwork . |
| 28 | His infuriated wife , who had learned little of him since his departure , and had in all probability imagined him on a chain gang in some inhospitable region , had since learned that her husband was enjoying a rich existence with the high rollers of Sydney . |
| 29 | Quite apart from her reluctance to give her family any more ammunition to treat her like a witless child , Guy Sterne 's arrogant interference had merely burdened Charles and her father with yet another worry to add to their depressing catalogue of troubles . |
| 30 | It makes more sense to see it as a career development move , providing an understanding and appreciation of both sides of the divide , ’ she says . |