Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 2 | And then you will tell him to come to a place that I will tell you of and at a time that I will tell you . |
| 3 | Thank God he did n't know what I was sure of , that I felt everything as if through a mattress . |
| 4 | Time is appropriate where the child is required to do something at or by a particular time . |
| 5 | She orgasmed with a series of low , satisfied grunts , as his ejaculation shot spunk into her as if from a gun . |
| 6 | Deaf to my shouts , he remains hypnotized by the contents of his viewfinder , which unfold before him as if on a giant cinema-screen on Oscar night , where he is an enraptured member of the audience , completely disembodied from this temporal peril . |
| 7 | Corbett looked away and gazed around ; the room had grown larger ; he turned and saw Thomas smiling at him as if through a haze . |
| 8 | When the train reached Puno we left it as if on a military exercise . |
| 9 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 10 | The street between them was empty , but the assassin spoke across it as if across a raging river . |
| 11 | Everything that torments me , everything I do n't have and that I long for , that makes me indignant , or sick , or suffocates me , everything that gives me a feeling of light and warmth , and by which I live , and everything that destroys me — it 's all there in your film , I see it as if in a mirror . |
| 12 | And what happens is , they float around and when they come in contact with a bacterium , they stick into the wall and the D N A tube is inserted through the bacterial wall into the psychoplasm of the bacteria , and the D N A is just pumped into it as if from a hypodermic syringe . |
| 13 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |