Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone sits in a circle with one child , possibly the birthday girl , being ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ in the middle blindfolded . |
| 2 | Everyone sits in a circle with one person sitting blindfolded in the middle . |
| 3 | Everyone sits in a circle with an unbreakable plate in the centre . |
| 4 | In this sense , everyone belongs to a culture or sub-culture and is ‘ acculturated ’ ; any distinction between ‘ cultured ’ and ‘ uncultured ’ represents a particular value-judgement within that culture . |
| 5 | Everyone lives in a world of such meanings ’ . |
| 6 | b. goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman + then he starts dancing with a beautiful girl long black hair + has a good time + |
| 7 | and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window … and goes out + goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman |
| 8 | Often in films someone goes to a house where he once spent happier times and , slowly , the screen if filled with laughing . |
| 9 | I lives in a house . |
| 10 | And if later someone disposes of a record in some other way no part of the royalty can be recovered . |
| 11 | I says on a night-time , I said , you know , she ca n't leave her home now , I said , she ca n't manage to put coal on fire , and she ca n't manage to get up up to eat and drink and that , I said , I do n't mind dropping off and taking me turn on the night-time but I mean , but it 's hard , it 's hard with me with kids every night . |
| 12 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 13 | At the kick off , Arse canter upfield , Merson or someone puts in a cross from the right which Arse players in the box ignore but which Jon Newsome guides home past Lukic . |
| 14 | It 's just like when someone pays for a park bench — they get a little plaque with their name on it , do n't they ? : - ) |
| 15 | Then someone decides on a set to suit the play someone brings the props and suddenly , there it is ’ — he waved a hand — ‘ dinner for two ; it 's magic . ’ |
| 16 | Frequently someone knows about a hazard , but fails to communicate with those who need to know . |
| 17 | In conventional crime there is no such similar fracture ; a person is charged with the consequences of his/her action ; if someone dies as a consequence of being stabbed , the assailant is more likely to be charged with a homicide offence rather than ‘ carrying an offensive weapon ’ . |
| 18 | On the other hand if someone dies of a heart attack it is just accepted that the cause is hereditary , ‘ He over-exerted himself once too often , ’ or most commonly , it was ‘ Just bad luck ’ . |
| 19 | In the rest of the country it is likely to be the Environmental Health Officer , unless someone dies in a council residential home , in which case the County Social Services Department will organise the funeral . |
| 20 | Everyone arrives with a stack of singles which they think are worth considering for the playlist . |
| 21 | If somebody goes on a drinking binge that 's the behaviour , the decision they make . |
| 22 | A grass collection box at the rear is easy to attach and empty : it simply locates on wedge-shaped protrusions under the flap , and is held in place by the flap , which fits into a recess on top of the box . |
| 23 | This year , BT and IBM plan to market a £3,000 video phone card which fits into a PC . |
| 24 | He says in the centre of the site there 's a land-drain put in by a previous farmer which drains into a stream which runs into the River Thame . |
| 25 | He says in the centre of the site there 's a land-drain put in by a previous farmer which drains into a stream which runs into the River Thame . |
| 26 | The great man himself sits at an aircraft-carrier of a desk across the room from the entrance . |
| 27 | Dr Robert Shore and Dr H Choudhury both dose with one granule in 110ml water putting one tablespoon in a glass of 110mls of water which represents of a granule per 5ml dose ( 6 days supply ) . |
| 28 | Even so , a verse attributed to the contemporary poet Stefnir Thorgilsson , which refers to a man with a crooked nose who betrayed Swegen out of his land , indicates that there may be something in the exile story after all . |
| 29 | Up to this point , the principal focus of analysis has been the concept of objectification , which refers to a process of externalization and sublation essential to the development of a given subject . |
| 30 | The necessity for scientists to find a justification for their endeavors is thrown into relief by this cartoon , which refers to a model exhibited before section B of the ‘ Mudfog Association , ’ a satirical creation of Charles Dickens who lampooned the British Association for the Advancement of Science with his ‘ Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything . ’ |