Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A grateful Di rewarded him with expensive presents — including a diamond-studded tie-pin and a gold and silver alarm clock . |
| 2 | Situated in the modern part of the town , you 'll find a friendly atmosphere awaiting you at La Plata Apts . |
| 3 | Here a right turn took him off the coastal road on to what was little more than a smoothly macadamed track bordered by water-filled ditches and fringed by a golden haze of reeds , their lumbered heads straining in the wind . |
| 4 | She had a right job did she with it ? |
| 5 | A stoic quality keeps him from talking about the problem , which is silly ; even Nicklaus discusses his back , made ancient by millions of swings and uneven leg lengths . |
| 6 | In the end , they came to the decision that whichever one of them saw Tamar first , would try to have a private word to tell her of Davis 's presence , and then see how she reacted . |
| 7 | I have a private helicopter to take me to and fro . ’ |
| 8 | This hotel is just off the main square of Sorrento , with a private lift linking it to Marina Piccola . |
| 9 | D'Arcy spent the first hour of the morning arranging for a private aircraft to fly them from le Bourget . |
| 10 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 11 | That she , who has always denied any further consequences of their evil — ‘ A little water clears us of this deed : /How easy is it then ! ’ |
| 12 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
| 13 | It was the match against Gillingham ( 4–1 ) on 5 March — 12,000 fans turned up , the band played ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ and Ted kicked off for us , even though a persistent injury prevented him from playing after New Year 's Day . |
| 14 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 15 | We snap a toothpick and make a half-hearted attempt to stick it to our chin . |
| 16 | On the north side of this Paddock a low wall separates it from some buildings occasionally used for canine patients , but chiefly as a Storage … |
| 17 | It was not long before a low whistle called us to where Valdemar stood , and he pointed : on a branch about six metres above us sat one of the most magnificent birds I had ever seen . |
| 18 | Yet in Greek philosophy , it appears , these two senses of to be were not always very clearly distinguished from each other , and sometimes moreover there was a strong tendency to amalgamate them in a single concept . " |
| 19 | It is likely to come about only as a consequence of a general election yielding a majority for no single party thus putting a minority party favouring change in a strong position to secure it as a price for joining or supporting another minority party in government . |
| 20 | Despite being filled with an overwhelming love and compassion for her husband , who was single-handedly fighting off one of the world 's largest corporations , she 'd also been swept by a strong desire to bash him over the head with his own fax machine ! |
| 21 | A strong arm prevented her from falling . |
| 22 | A strong arm barred her from leaving the room . |
| 23 | At the weekend a Saudi court sentenced him to a 120 lashes in public for supplying alcohol , a charge he 's always denied . |
| 24 | From behind the wire fencing , a uniformed guard eyes us with binoculars . |
| 25 | Actually that 's a that haircut reminds me of somebody that 's on the telly . |
| 26 | Farmers still dilute a concentrated formulation to apply it in 200 litres or more of water per hectare . |
| 27 | erm I have two children and I have found that it was quite a full-time job persuading them of the virtue of certain old-fashioned ways of going about things . |
| 28 | We have developed a procedure for quantifying a specific mRNA purifying it with a selected biotinylated oligonucleotide ( sbODN ) and measuring its absorbance by free solution Capillary Electrophoresis ( CE ) . |
| 29 | Next time a stranger tries to stop you in the street , perhaps you should think twice about looking at the pavement and brushing past . |
| 30 | And his hand picked up a dropped boot to hurl it against the crackling plastic doors . |