Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [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 " 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 .
17 An American , Heilman , suggested that to use a dictionary you need five subskills :
18 As a result we saw human nature at its best , with so many people rallying around those in need of help . ’
19 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 .
20 As a result they suffered many casualties .
21 As a result they pay sky-high premiums .
22 As a result they have considerable doubts about the validity of the case for the control of mergers .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 ‘ As a result I know some background to what Zbigniew Nowak was involved in .
26 An intensely dutiful , rather dour man , he was plagued by eye troubles and as a result he shunned fashionable society .
27 As a result he gets more exercise and is generally fitter and healthier .
28 He has his sleuth say once that to commit a murder you need four aces .
29 As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals .
30 A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat .
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