Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suddenly a police van came round the corner and pulled up to see what was going on . |
| 2 | Suddenly a police car emerges from the archway in the palace , its blue light flashing , followed by a closed Cadillac with tinted windows and a pennant on the wing . |
| 3 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 4 | Recalling going into Kyle , while I was at Stromefirry-nofirry , and remembering that nightmare vision of the burned-black man after the blevey — Sir Rufus with his black bones , black nails , black wood and his black jaw hinged back and very much a dental-records job — and thinking , How did they identify Andy ? |
| 5 | Apparently a Spurs fan had complained the previous week 's 606 that the Leeds had applauded the removal of Nick Barmby 's remains from the pitch at White Hart Lane after a tackle by our Johnny Pemberton . |
| 6 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 7 | Other employers referred to the advantages of employing search consultants for particularly sensitive appointments ; obviously a personnel director could not be expected to try and find his or her successor . |
| 8 | So a futures price of 1825.0 implies that the index is being traded at 1825.0 and the value of the contract is 45,625 ( i.e. 1825.0 ×25 per index point ) . |
| 9 | I think it 's only a Windows thing . |
| 10 | The agency say they broke new ground by bringing together a drinks company and an existing client , the DoE , to sponsor a major anti-drinking and driving campaign . |
| 11 | He says if they get a good description they 'll put to together an artists impression . |
| 12 | Thus a systems diagram can not completely represent the dynamic situation and the way in which changes occur during a storm event . |
| 13 | And , in spite of his position and background , ‘ human resource development is something that has to be driven by all managers , not just a personnel director . ’ |
| 14 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 15 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 16 | on the part of the public that this was a facility provided by the parish council , it 's not just a sports club facility as will develop over the years , which is what we intended , but it does n't belong to those clubs , facility was originally provided by us . |
| 17 | UI will no longer be just a requirements body or a marketing arm for USL . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . |
| 20 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 21 | Where it 's already got A C G just after , is that the C O C T one , Jayne or just a careers officer one ? |
| 22 | Finally a police sergeant was called and the demonstrators withdrew . |
| 23 | The package includes a word processor , database , drawing and paint applications plus a spreadsheet with graphs and charts and finally a communications program . |
| 24 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 25 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 26 | Not unnaturally a police world values uniformity , for as the language infers it embodies the essentials of a system obsessed with physical and ideological concepts of order and discipline . |
| 27 | Eventually , further money will be raised to complete the remaining two floors to provide a youth centre and possibly a sports hall . |
| 28 | Indifferent student Leonard might have been formally , he was nevertheless already showing those precocious marks of the littérateur , ‘ always an ideas man , ’ as Rosengarten commented . |
| 29 | It meanwhile was still being printed letterpress and seemed more an arts magazine than a product of any new movement , and put together by amateurs with leather arm-patches on their tweed jackets . |
| 30 | There are two main methods by which the purchaser can raise the cash : through a share issue namely a rights issue or a cash placing . |