Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these movements have had before them as a model the existing nation states , and have been influenced by nationalist ideas already formulated and widely disseminated . |
| 2 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 3 | If you could take them for a walk every day , from three to half-past four or something like that , I 'd be terribly grateful . |
| 4 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
| 5 | And do you erm thought it at least very possible that there was someone with a gun the other side of the door . |
| 6 | To someone on a planet a long , long way off it would look just like an ordinary star . ’ |
| 7 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 8 | An enterprising firm of accountants , having taken expert legal advice , wrote around to B.C.C.I. depositors telling them of a scheme the accountants had prepared . |
| 9 | Progress in the 19th century lay in improving refining techniques , in finding new uses ( especially in catalysis and electricity ) and discovering new sources , principally in the Urals — after which for a time the Russians adopted platinum coinage . |
| 10 | He never in fact produced the list ( which in a speech the next day had been mysteriously reduced to 57 ) but his smear tactics worked in an atmosphere of fear . |
| 11 | They do n't take them under a shilling a week , and God knows what they charge when they live in . |
| 12 | Six hundred or something for a day no four hundred for a day . |
| 13 | but erm he described a , my mum told her everything about a fall the bump on her head , he knew |
| 14 | Adding excess information to Ventura documents becomes something of a hazard the more complex they get . |
| 15 | In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ . |
| 16 | Er one with a cornet every morning down there . |
| 17 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 18 | A tune was sounding in his head — something from a magazine a friend had sent from Glasgow . |
| 19 | For something over a century the major export item was beaver fur for felting and making into men 's hats . |
| 20 | They 're locked in here , so she 's gon na get them for me in a minute no worry Is a drink snowball , she thinks It might not be . |
| 21 | He stretched out his hand , took the girl 's unresisting fingers and kissed them in a way the most professional courtier would have envied . |
| 22 | If he records his findings at each visit to a given process and plots them on a graph a tendency to drift can be detected . |
| 23 | If he records his findings at each visit to a given process and plots them on a graph a tendency to drift can be detected . |
| 24 | As a change from wet feet and sightseeing I was smuggled into an English-language class where we drank home-made slivovitz and one of the students , a lugubrious-looking individual called Miroslav who played the bassoon in the Moravia Philharmonic Orchestra , invited me to a concert the following evening . |
| 25 | ‘ Honour , ’ repeated Kit , a smile dancing mischievously in the corner of his lips , giving him for a moment the look of a sprite , a red-gold Puck no stranger to mischief . |
| 26 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 27 | The Association honoured him on his retirement with the award of a medal of honour and elected him as a Vice-President The following year he was made an OBE for his lifelong work for the deaf . |
| 28 | There was something about Rourke that stirred her in a way no other man had ever done … but , even so , a tiny voice of caution held her back . |
| 29 | Hawk did not look like a soce worker or a shrink , but he was getting to her in a way the juvie officials never used to . |
| 30 | Daryl remembered something your mother had told her in a letter a week or two before , she said that she 'd met Sally Hopes mother and had liked her and she said to that she 'd seen Mrs Hopes baby . |