Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His leg seemed to have stopped bleeding , or very nearly , and he could n't have severed an artery or he 'd have bled to death by now , but all the same there had to be a pretty serious wound under the cloth of his trousers and the faster I could get him to a doctor the better . |
| 32 | Muffled in furs , Franklin D. Hauser left the complex in a snow buggy which drove him to a helipad a kilometre away . |
| 33 | If land is given to an infant by will or conveyed to him on an intestacy the legal estate vests in the representatives of the deceased who hold it in trust for the infant . |
| 34 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 35 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 36 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 37 | You can do it with a turn the carnation pink or you know it 's white , that sort of thing . |
| 38 | Sheltering it with a hand the colour of yellow smoke , she shuffled across to the table by the far wall and lit the candle . |
| 39 | He must in the end get his man , and do it in a way the reader will find credible . |
| 40 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 41 | As ever , ESP are busy doing the obvious thing , but they 're doing it in a manner a cut above some of the other ‘ rawk ’ guitar manufacturers . |
| 42 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 43 | Roll it to a rectangle a little larger than the entire cake , about 32·5x38cm ( 13x15inches ) . |
| 44 | THE scene outside a Moscow hotel : a man in a suit unfurls an umbrella , turns it upside down and attaches it to a box the size of a fruit crate . |
| 45 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 46 | Alexander III of Scotland has left us as an heir a three-year-old Norwegian princess . |
| 47 | The idea that dream objects have sexual symbolism can , however , degenerate into a sort of post-Artemidorian dream-book formula , where anything elongated is a phallic symbol , anything with a hole a vaginal one . |
| 48 | It were reasonable , quite re , er as a matter of fact we could afford to go on ho my father could afford to take us on a holiday every year . |
| 49 | Tell us on a postcard the Latin name of the domesticated Chinese silk moth and send it marked CL /Moth to the address on page 2 by 30 June . |
| 50 | The changes that have been introduced into South Africa forced upon the white minority government by both international pressure but also by the magnificent work at the A N C in Cosatu must be supported as well but we can not treat South Africa as anything but a pariah a , a , a national pariah until we see one person one vote , and a black majority government in South Africa . |
| 51 | After the first day we were two shots behind Dai Rees and Kel Nagle , who we owed one for beating us by a shot the year before . |