Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 2 | Can a chimp perceive a movie as representing a second individual trying to solve a problem , like reaching bananas or switching on a heater ? |
| 3 | ‘ Old school ’ , a term that describes the first wave of US rap originators , is now a bona fide street fashion craze . |
| 4 | It was , it was very nice except that Fred had a piece and left the last couple of slices in the tin on the side and the dog took a shine to it so it was in a tin and then in the dog . |
| 5 | William was given command of a schooner and spent the next 6 years trading on Lake Erie . |
| 6 | He was educated at Elphinstone College where he remained as a teacher and became the first Indian professor with his appointment to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy ( 1854 ) . |
| 7 | An owl few over the ford , banked into a beechwood and gave a last hollow call , which was lost in the dawn 's loud chorus that seemed to presage a bright hot summer 's day in this rich and placid countryside . |
| 8 | Nicholas Ridley retired from the house of commons at the last election after his outspoken remarks over Europe , he took a peerage and spent the last few months of his life in the House of Lords . |
| 9 | She blew him a kiss and removed the second shirt , exposing the shirt beneath it . |
| 10 | A dog that gains a third prize is a dog that lacks quality and is not perfect in construction , but one that still can not be called a poor specimen . |
| 11 | They are also useful for reflecting too small a space and exaggerating every last bit of light . |
| 12 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 13 | In Britain university English was developed with undergraduate teaching primarily in mind , in a culture that included the sixth forms of schools . |
| 14 | We faced the barrel of a gun and chose the last thing we would do . |
| 15 | George had got the deposit ready for a house and made the first down payment on a dining suite . |
| 16 | Bruce , a second-hand dealer for 15 years , said he had taken away the items in a van but returned the next day because he wanted to buy a chest of drawers . |
| 17 | He also arranged for the Tanager Gallery , a co-op that enlivened the 10th Street scene for many years , to move there . |
| 18 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 19 | Obviously , the thing to do is to backwind to the point where the eating of the banana comes to an end and begin the next shot from there . |