Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [det] [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 | Being a composite they have some cleaning ability . |
| 4 | Is this a gang you gave some shit ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As a result they suffered many casualties . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ As a result I know some background to what Zbigniew Nowak was involved in . |
| 12 | As a result he gets more exercise and is generally fitter and healthier . |
| 13 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 14 | As a youngster he spent many hours playing cricket with his good friend John Turner and several other boys on a piece of waste ground at the top of Young Street . |
| 15 | But as a child she had many times been wrested ( as it felt to her ) from her known environment into some strange place , leaving her totally confused . |
| 16 | Well first let me say erm in answer to a question you put some time ago , what is it what is in this budget for the people of Oxfordshire , and all you got from both Councillor Waldon and Councillor Barnes was a list of the cuts . |
| 17 | Is that that kind of a swelling you get that swelling ? |
| 18 | He was so strong and confident , so sure of himself , that it was a pity he held all women in contempt . |
| 19 | Tizard 's findings led her to conclude that the adopted children were the most fortunate — as a group they had fewer problems than the restored children . |
| 20 | Well I can say personally that I went from a size twelve to a twenty and its a medical problem , its the , not an eating one though , you know any thing to with any diet or any thing like that , completely medical so er it takes a bit of coping with when you 've been slim and then all of a sudden you have this weight that , no diet will remove . |
| 21 | Oh , Oh , Oh come on play a record I love that sound , come on baby let's play around , radio , what a sound |
| 22 | Oh , Oh , Oh come on play a record I love that sound , come on baby let's play around , radio , what a sound |
| 23 | For a moment they faced each other , frozen in hostility . |
| 24 | For a moment they caught each other 's eye . |
| 25 | After a moment he dropped some coins from his pocket into the hat and stepped back . |
| 26 | For a moment she lost all sense of reality , her senses whirling dizzily , his solid bulk the only anchor in a world suddenly tipped off its axis . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , you are on the big side and for a moment I had this vision of you … ’ |
| 28 | She leads him by the hand , and from a distance they resemble those drawings of Christopher Robin dragging Winnie The Pooh along the ground . |
| 29 | From a distance it resembled some piece of modern sculpture : disjointed planes , random angles , a lot of holes . |
| 30 | All are searching for peace of mind and for a while it seem that Ilmorog can offer this . |