Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protest floated at the back of her numbed mind : how could she have the heart to deal such a blow only to satisfy her own thirst for scandal ? |
| 2 | It is symptomatic , in short , of a need both to proclaim his own worth and to keep a threatening world at a distance . |
| 3 | A picture of the Shah at the ruined temple on Philae shows him in a blazer and tie , wearing tinted glasses and looking very gaunt as a guide earnestly explains it all to him . |
| 4 | We did a confidential letter to Edinburgh District a month ago telling them that . |
| 5 | Afghanistan , which had been a monarchy until a coup in 1973 , was declared a Democratic Republic in 1978 following a second coup led by the communist People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) , which installed a government largely comprising its own members . |
| 6 | If there 's not a walk nearby organise your own . |
| 7 | Erm , and we can , we can have a sweepstake now to decide who that 's going to be . |
| 8 | Whether Socrates himself was ever helped towards a clearer understanding of matters by this process Plato does not tell us , but I must say I have always found that a tutorial strongly stimulated my own thinking . |
| 9 | So what we 've done we 've made a film just to show you all the different jobs that archaeologists do . |
| 10 | If an exercise ever causes you any pain you must stop immediately . |
| 11 | The silly , extravagant , strange or ludicrous sound of an idea sometimes tells us more about ourselves , about our prejudices and resistance to change , than about the truth contained in the idea itself . ’ |
| 12 | and an OAP carefully rolling his own : |