Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very deliberately she closed her teeth gently on his fingertip , her eyes holding his , and with a smothered sound Penry jerked his hand away and seized her in his arms , his kiss igniting a response which set them both alight . |
| 2 | She continues : ‘ Ageism … is a prejudice which enables us all , young and old to consider old people as useless , incontinent , senile , asexual and immobile . ’ |
| 3 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 4 | For a moment she thought they all looked at her in surprise . |
| 5 | When at last she gained some independence by taking a job which gave her some income of her own , she suddenly put her foot down . |
| 6 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 7 | The Wilde apocrypha contains a joke which says it all — or a fair part of it . |
| 8 | Here 's a band who had it all . |
| 9 | Eleven , you 've got four hundred pound , you got so it 's a good second hand one or a cheapy no , well it would be a cheapy I told him most of them around about seven hundred and ninety nine |
| 10 | He was lucky to have the support of his family , but above all , in having as his Lady Mayoress a wife who showed him such love and devotion , in sickness and in health . |
| 11 | Actually , she is not bad as ‘ All the way Mae ’ — a character which becomes her more than some of her other movie roles . |
| 12 | Anita the fabled feminist has a complaint she want you all to hear . |
| 13 | Without warning Penry 's arms shot out to pull her on tiptoe against his broad chest , returning the brief little caress with a kiss which left them both shaken when he finally set her square on her feet again . |
| 14 | Of course , that does n't mean you ca n't go climbing in them , providing you get a size which gives you enough movement . |
| 15 | ‘ We are actually now dealing with a substance which affects us all , not just the few people who take cannabis for recreational purposes . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We are dealing with a substance which affects us all , not just the few who take cannabis for recreational purposes . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Quite a turn you give us all , Miss Theda ! ’ |
| 18 | Annika Sorenstam , the 22-year-old Swede who was playing in what was only her second LPGA event , finished as well placed as fourth — a performance which won her some $37,000 . |
| 19 | If the previous chapter of this Report is taken seriously , however , there is a challenge which faces us all . |
| 20 | But then realism , as she knows , like journalism , does not exclude analysis : in fact her first book , Sartre , had ended in a mild sense of exasperation against philosophy itself , which she believed had frustrated Sartre by making him unable to write a great novel , ‘ a tragic symptom of a situation which afflicts us all ’ . |
| 21 | As it stood , it consisted of a multi-volume jumble of vers libre , written over many years , some in the form of letters , especially to her mother — ‘ if I sent her a letter she sent me some money — so I kept on writing ’ — listing the men she 'd known . |
| 22 | Robert Forbes pulled out before his partners were indicted , a manoeuvre which cost him all the accumulated wealth of Lorna Lewis 's golden days . |
| 23 | She was , he guessed , in her late thirties , and was uncompromisingly plain in a way it struck him few women nowadays were . |
| 24 | On the other hand , no personal endings are found here simply because no ordinal rank has yet been represented at this early stage of verb formation , a fact which gives us some insight into the reality underlying the term " non-finite " . |