Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh that 's a re that 's my , maybe that 'll make my put my mind at rest a wee bit . |
| 2 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 3 | I had it for my dinner at school a lot actually . |
| 4 | Vivienne Peters , chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association , believes that Mercury 's reticence may not be because of problems with the trial , but because it wants to keep the plan under wraps in the fear that British Telecommunications Plc will try to steal its thunder by pre-launching a similar service . |
| 5 | Watchdog featured her after she called out a plumber to her home to unblock a toilet . |
| 6 | His eyes were on Meredith , who was framed against the peeling ochre wall , her flame-burst of hair a startling contrast to her pale cream skin and the delicate snowflakes which lay scattered on her head like confetti . |
| 7 | Jerry Rawlings , chair of the PNDC , said that if the assembly completed its work on schedule a referendum on the constitution would be held in January or February 1992 and , if it won support , parliamentary elections would be held " by the last quarter of 1992 at the latest " . |
| 8 | Which type of support a young person receives should be determined entirely by the needs of that person rather than by slotting her or him into inflexible institutional alternatives . |
| 9 | The good news is that you can usually tell which type of value a keyname experts by looking at the value that is already there before you start . |
| 10 | The restoration of contemporary art is little more than a childish effort to arrest artistic expression at its moment of birth a mistaken longing for eternal youth . |
| 11 | As such it needs to make use of concepts which define the political sphere , the nature of political relations and institutions , the state , government , law , etc. ; and it generally has as its point of departure a broader scheme of thought about human nature and society . |
| 12 | It was , of course , from their point of view a welcome scheme . |
| 13 | If an individual peasant family was for one reason or another unable to produce its share of tax a peasant might borrow , do additional work as a paid labourer or craftsman or forfeit his land rights to another . |
| 14 | She had written to them at once after Mr Renfrew 's visit , encompassing them in the great outpouring of gratitude that had flooded her , and received from her father in reply a letter that had shocked her and alarmed her . |
| 15 | It does not matter on which style of dance a choreographer bases his design . |
| 16 | She broke her vow of silence a bit desperately , though , after a few more minutes . |
| 17 | In social stratification theory and its application in research a number of assumptions made about the role of women serve to guarantee their invisibility . |
| 18 | But like Out and Such , Between takes as its principle of organization a network of associations formed in the verbal consciousness of the protagonist . |
| 19 | You hav to hav a bit of patience but once the train moves out the little victims are YOURS You put them in the lugage rack with molesworth 2 . |
| 20 | Whenever the doorkeeper opened up to let in an applicant who had left his card in time a great throng would press forward , hurling their plans through the door like assegais . |
| 21 | Upon recovering , he admitted he had been extremely depressed since the death of his wife from cancer a year earlier and now did not think he had anything to live for . |
| 22 | In May 1989 , Austin Currie took his commitment to Thatcherism a stage further . |
| 23 | It 's something that gives his performance in Glory a genuinely affecting complexity , something which suggests he may develop into an actor with some depth . |
| 24 | Before he developed his wrap around technique a full figure took 18 months to make . |
| 25 | And as for Stephen Blufton well , he sticks his oar into programme-making a lot but he 's got no interest in promoting the career of an inexperienced regional reporter . ’ |
| 26 | You can find out what kind of speller a pupil is firstly , by the very simple checklist above and secondly , by detailed analysis which pinpoints the weak points . |
| 27 | Thus we knew what fish would look like on our sonar , and we knew what kind of signal a standard gas-filled object would produce . |
| 28 | I guarantee I can tell what kind of actor a person is if I hear them do ‘ Three Blind Mice ’ . ’ |
| 29 | I wonder what kind of trouble a wig gives on a night like this . |
| 30 | Certainly , we might be justified in assuming that whatever kind of superego a person had it might have some controlling , drive-inhibiting aspects , and consequently that anarchy , which is equivalent to a more or less complete absence of controls , is an unlikely outcome . |