Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 2 | Sister Imelda , the only nun in the convent who was good with the needle , had been in her sick bed so a very poor job had been done on taking up the hem . |
| 3 | English spelling was standardised in its present form only a little more than 200 years ago . |
| 4 | Both teams have lost their first game so a win tomorrow is vital if they want to have a realistic chance of making the play-offs . |
| 5 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 6 | His upbeat message just a day after Chancellor Norman Lamont warned that full economic recovery could be three years away sparked an angry clash with Labour . |
| 7 | Nobody would guess from that admirably impersonal account that Milton settled to write his first divorce only a few weeks after the bitter disappointment of his marriage . |
| 8 | On the death of his eldest brother only a few weeks later , he was apprenticed to his father as a chemist . |
| 9 | The German trenches were less than two hundred yards ahead , with our front trench only a hundred yards from theirs . |
| 10 | Whether in relation to Polish politics or other social issues , in our communications-obsessed world only a fool would claim that the diffusion of ideas and techniques is unimportant . |
| 11 | You lose your nerve , drive down to Streatley in secret , change the tape in your father 's Ansaphone , prepare the body and move your whole schedule forward a week . |