Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello there … welcome to Australia for a Central South sporting special … where we 've come for a race of the future … the Solar Challenge … sun powered cars racing through the wild outback … that 's our Friday Feature … first it 's back to Britain … for our football parade |
| 2 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 3 | I will feel a greater feeling of personal well being … a greater feeling of personal safety … and security … than I have felt for a long , long time . |
| 4 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So I 've arranged for a whistle-stop tour around the country houses of some influential contacts , and there are one or two long-standing debts and favours due to me that I 'm going to call in over this weekend . ’ |
| 6 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 7 | Dry batteries for fencer units are outrageously expensive , so I have resorted to an old tractor battery , trickle-charged by a windmill made from a bicycle wheel with its dynamo hub : it cost nothing and worked without trouble for a year at a stretch . |
| 8 | ‘ And so you 've come on a friendly visit ? ’ |
| 9 | See like , long hair here , so it 's hanging down , scraggily , so you 've got like a shaved head , with all these bits here ai n't ya ? |
| 10 | Once you 've decided on a bathroom suite , the next thing to consider is heating , lighting and ventilation . |
| 11 | Once you 've decided on a route and how your going to tackle it , the last factor in the equation is when to go . |
| 12 | Once you 've decided on a specification , create a shortlist of machines and check out the reviews . |
| 13 | Once you 've decided on a specification , create a shortlist of machines and check out the reviews . |
| 14 | It 's just that once you 've started on a war , there 's no stopping it . |
| 15 | Once you have got into an improvising state of mind almost any piece of furniture will begin to develop potential . |
| 16 | Once you have come to an agreement on an expectation , form it into an objective statement , eg , ‘ We will establish no precedent which caters mainly to the desires of one at the expense of the other ’ . |
| 17 | This relationship is evidently not to be confused with a sexual relationship ; it is just that once you have entered into an artistic liaison of this intensity , the sexual shenanigans are likely to follow . |
| 18 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 19 | Although they have worked as a duo since 1987 and have built up a great following throughout these islands and abroad , their respective musical experiences go back much further . |
| 20 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 21 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 22 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 23 | In recent years it has been found that a high proportion of patients suffering from piles require no further treatment once they have switched to a high-fibre diet and as a result pass soft stools that can be evacuated with minimal straining . |
| 24 | Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate . |
| 25 | No my my own view and it 's I I do n't know if I 've come to a view on the relative weight of those sorts of considerations er I I 'd need to think about it some more before I could come to a view on that . |
| 26 | ‘ I can wait until you 've put on a shirt , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 27 | But take no action until you have spoken to a doctor . |
| 28 | I mean at the moment of choice you 're faced with a set of people , including , let's say , one man and one woman , who on paper match each other and who perhaps , even if you 've adjusted for a possibility of the woman 's having to fight and so on , they 're equal on paper . |
| 29 | I do n't know if you 've heard of a guy called Danny Gatton . |
| 30 | In the new South Africa , if you 've worked for a white family for more than five years , you get to keep the house … |