Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But later , only a small cluster of people remain , grouped around the Martyr 's Cross where their candles burn to a carpet of wax . |
| 2 | The central figure is the child , Little Nell , who deeply engaged the sympathies of contemporary readers as they followed her through the hardships of her pilgrimage , made in company with the senile grandfather whom she strives to protect , from the London curiosity shop to the sanctuary of a village where her sufferings end in a peaceful death . |
| 3 | ALAMO ( 0800 272200 ) will rent out a Mercedes 190 at Heathrow for little more than its rivals charge for a Ford Fiesta . |
| 4 | , Joseph ( fl. 1647–1655 ) , sectarian , was briefly prominent as a Ranter between March 1650 and 1651 , although his writings approximate to a Seeker position between 1647 and 1649 . |
| 5 | But a spokesman added : ‘ If your discharges go into a river at a slightly too-high temperature , or with slightly too high a level of sediment , you have breached your licence . ’ |
| 6 | The feminist criticism of this volume is the more powerful because its contributors come from a variety of philosophical traditions . |
| 7 | Thus , because its shares trade at a low price the company will need to issue a larger number of them to raise a given amount of capital than would otherwise be the case . |
| 8 | In the novel I can believe he is saying such things , perhaps because I am hearing his voice in my head , in the privacy of my own mind ( I am thinking him ) and I am extremely relieved to hear him say them because his words bring to an end a certain kind of conflict between himself and Connie . |
| 9 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 10 | I have in my own way tried to point out that , of the world 's leading rugby nations , the game in south Africa has suffered badly not only as a result of its years of isolation — as many of those who have just visited the country during the New Zealand and Australian tours believe — but precisely because our officials have for a very long time been at the forefront of the trend towards professionalism . |
| 11 | With experienced guides , you can stroll among the seals and even feed some of the babies while their mothers go for a swim under the ice . |
| 12 | As the inventor of the most complete terminology of the creative process , the critic , borrowing his methods from the logician as well as from the psychologist , has replaced the metaphysician , since his findings show with a greater exactitude the nature of what we are . |
| 13 | Bob Sawyer is one of her lodgers ; he owes her rent , which this ‘ little fierce woman ’ bounces in to demand just before his guests arrive for a bachelor party . |
| 14 | I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket . |
| 15 | What proportion of asylum seekers come into this country on visitors ' permits and then decide that they are in fear of persecution just as their permits come to an end ? |