Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 've tried to set the duty at a level which makes it clear to those who seek to commit financial crime that they 're more likely to be caught but which does not impose additional reporting burdens or costs on those who conduct their business honestly and that is a most important balance to strike . |
| 2 | Very deliberately she closed her teeth gently on his fingertip , her eyes holding his , and with a smothered sound Penry jerked his hand away and seized her in his arms , his kiss igniting a response which set them both alight . |
| 3 | Yeah in other words yeah , we we you 're gon na complain and to not send them a cheque you give them two free seats which we know the cost of that is is minimal . |
| 4 | What a horror they drive you mad though , god As soon as you 've got you get used to stage with just Charlotte where you can get on and do things an |
| 5 | But you see if you make it as a , a division it makes it easier . |
| 6 | Though I know that the struggle is taking place somewhere , as a housewife I find it harder to believe that there is a part in it for me . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's when they think he 's a gallstone they find it difficult . ’ |
| 8 | She shot him a glance which made him sorry for asking . |
| 9 | As a result they offered him small parts in the next two films in which Ken would star . |
| 10 | Erm as a result they call them weightless networks which we actually hate because they 're not weightless . |
| 11 | She continues : ‘ Ageism … is a prejudice which enables us all , young and old to consider old people as useless , incontinent , senile , asexual and immobile . ’ |
| 12 | Pinned to the gate , poster-sized , was a blown-up snapshot of a blonde girl not unlike Lyn herself , a girl with a vulnerable face , tender and a little melancholy , a girl who wore her long fair hair like a cloak . |
| 13 | A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books . |
| 14 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 15 | Both of us went on a diet which made it easier , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Subsequently , continuing on occasion to work in partnership with his brother , he developed a business which made him one of the most successful of such craft-based figures in English history . |
| 17 | An example of one difficulty will be to determine whether subsequent variations of a statement is of a nature which makes it impossible to characterize the statements as clear in themselves or as clearly demonstrating a parliamentary intention . |
| 18 | For a moment she thought they all looked at her in surprise . |
| 19 | When at last she gained some independence by taking a job which gave her some income of her own , she suddenly put her foot down . |
| 20 | It takes months for inmates to be that open , back on A wing they find it hard to understand . |
| 21 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 22 | The Wilde apocrypha contains a joke which says it all — or a fair part of it . |
| 23 | Optical isomers are sometimes called inentiamorse if you have trouble with language then we 'll call them inantipas if you 're a biologist you call them optical isomers . |
| 24 | Here 's a band who had it all . |
| 25 | She 's open-minded , and a single parent : maybe that has something to do with it and with me not having a husband it made it easier for her to come in and see me sometimes . |
| 26 | He explained that part of his treatment was a steroid which made him hyperactive and sweaty , and cursed the fact that he could n't keep still . |
| 27 | In 1642 Goddard married Mary , daughter of John Greene , serjeant-at-law , a match which brought him useful connections , notably with Edward Bysshe [ q.v. ] , who was appointed Garter king of arms by Parliament in 1646 . |
| 28 | Eleven , you 've got four hundred pound , you got so it 's a good second hand one or a cheapy no , well it would be a cheapy I told him most of them around about seven hundred and ninety nine |
| 29 | He was lucky to have the support of his family , but above all , in having as his Lady Mayoress a wife who showed him such love and devotion , in sickness and in health . |
| 30 | But for a while we found it hard . |