Example sentences of "a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 2 | City accountants Peat Marwick warned : ‘ With recovery still merely a hope we fear more bankruptcies . ’ |
| 3 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
| 4 | Being a composite they have some cleaning ability . |
| 5 | Is this a gang you gave some shit ? |
| 6 | In my early struggling days as a writer I spent occasional days as a film extra . |
| 7 | About , for example , the internal problems in what was the Soviet Union , a story we began some years ago , but are now in danger of leaving hanging in the air . |
| 8 | If you 've a story you think other people would be interested in hearing aboutwhy not phone our newsline . |
| 9 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 10 | To form a judgement he seeks further information . |
| 11 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 12 | She says as a housewife she notices dirty floors . |
| 13 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 14 | ‘ If you want to create a certain density with a guitar you record one instrument with three mics and you get this wonderfull stereo spread . |
| 15 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 16 | Chris Ivan said to me , he said Cliff wanted us to go and have a drink he said when we 've finished work on a Friday he said last night , I tell you , I said I said no , no I did n't ! |
| 17 | " Into a saucepan you pour 2 decilitres ( approximately 7 fluid oz. ) of white wine , you add a large clove of garlic , chopped , and you boil the wine until it is reduced by half and the garlic is cooked . |
| 18 | An American , Heilman , suggested that to use a dictionary you need five subskills : |
| 19 | . But on a Saturday I had another paper round , from the same people , which involved travelling from to the Sanatorium on Road which is probably two and a half mile , with a cycle , advertising Smiths with the carriers on . |
| 20 | As a result we saw human nature at its best , with so many people rallying around those in need of help . ’ |
| 21 | As a result they show subtle differences , some being positioned on the upper fin , some on the rear of the main trunk and some on the tail-stem . |
| 22 | As a result they suffered many casualties . |
| 23 | As a result they pay sky-high premiums . |
| 24 | As a result they have considerable doubts about the validity of the case for the control of mergers . |
| 25 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 26 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 27 | ‘ As a result I know some background to what Zbigniew Nowak was involved in . |
| 28 | An intensely dutiful , rather dour man , he was plagued by eye troubles and as a result he shunned fashionable society . |
| 29 | As a result he gets more exercise and is generally fitter and healthier . |
| 30 | He has his sleuth say once that to commit a murder you need four aces . |