Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
| 2 | This , though , is not why the game treasures the softly-spoken , bespectacled grandfather who served me tea in an Oxford Street flat the other week . |
| 3 | They cite Germany 's Abitur , where school-leavers are graded in eight subjects , and where their grading wins them entry into an apprenticeship if they do not go to university . |
| 4 | But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance . |
| 5 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 6 | As too my faith in an even greater power when the same man , just two hours later , miraculously leapt to his sore , aching feet and gave the Robin Hood cast a thoroughly deserved five-minute standing ovation … |
| 7 | I had no idea what my activities as an auditor might involve , and I might need an address . |
| 8 | ‘ I intend taking my case to an industrial tribunal . ’ |
| 9 | It is a personal , highly subjective account which seeks to relate my experience as an Irish lesbian , my involvement in political action at that time and my subsequent emigration to England in the mid-seventies . |
| 10 | In my experience as an inspector I have been surprised at the frequency with which there are no or inadequate schemes of work within secondary school departments , with the effect that there is either repetition between the years , or gaps and discontinuities . |
| 11 | At the time I ascribed my inability to an acute sense of boredom ( which , in part , it was ) , but I can see now that it was also a form of rebellion , this time an unconscious one . |
| 12 | My description of an amazing 18-light silver chandelier weighing over 2,500 ounces and made for the Duke of Abercorn in 1837 has , instead of a photograph of the Duke 's dining room at Baronscourt , where the chandelier had originally hung , one of the entrance hall . |
| 13 | But when the third chain coma clattering round my club , it smashes against my fingers like an axe . |
| 14 | I was there , as I said , for two and a half years , so it would have been difficult for the teachers to respond to my presence in an artificial way because I was there for such a long time . |
| 15 | I get my info from an Arsenal fan so no wonder it 's unreliable ( but consistent : - ) ) |
| 16 | ‘ I will never again sell one of my books to an American , ’ he said . |
| 17 | A young policeman in a leather jacket painfully , letter by letter , typed my losses on an ancient machine . |
| 18 | After an ungainly dash across the rocks he comes to rest at my side with an almighty splash . |
| 19 | My attempt at an inventory of the entire contents of a jacket pocket for 1959 . |
| 20 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 21 | I commission most of my research from an agency , and apart from that I rely mainly 011 secondary sources . ’ |
| 22 | It was a gratifying experience to find myself liked and accepted by my peers to an extent that I had never expected . |
| 23 | Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 103ff ) , following on Bolinger 1984 , points out likewise that " if my attitude to an event is such that I am glad or sorry about it , this means that in advance of this event I could have predicted my emotional reaction to it " . |
| 24 | The answers to such questions make the moral judgement on my work as an architect . |
| 25 | It was their own idea , started without help before I began my work as an adviser and I want to try and help them make it a success . |
| 26 | The following morning I got Dad 's step-ladder out , put some of his flowerpots from the greenhouse on the steps and was having a lovely time with my own version of ‘ Breaking up the Happy Home ’ when the sound of pots smashing brought my carnival to an end . |
| 27 | Did it involve National Velvet and my asking for an autograph ? |
| 28 | If there are aspects of the science of art that Kemp fails to engage adequately , the scope of this book is nevertheless very impressive and a number of the issues he discusses impinge on my concerns as an historian of science . |
| 29 | ‘ I cocked my weapon as an immediate reaction . |
| 30 | If I suddenly transfer my attention to an object or some aspect of the physical environment ( after all , inanimate things are much easier to deal with , are n't they — they do n't have emotions ) when you 're revealing thoughts and feelings , then once again I 've dodged your agenda . |