Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she filmed Just Like a Woman , on general release later this month , in which she plays a woman who falls in love with a transvestite . |
| 2 | Marie Murphy then provides a musical interlude with her essay ‘ Down To The Woods ’ , in which she takes a look at the career of that great Ulster songwriter , the late Jimmy Kennedy . |
| 3 | The female ichneumon wasp has an ovipositor like a dagger with which she drills a hole in wood at the exact point where she has detected a beetle grub lying beneath . |
| 4 | Now comes Sophie Calle , the French conceptualist late of the Museum of Modern Art 's ‘ Dislocations ’ , with a show called ‘ Blind Color ’ in which she incorporates a mini-exhibition of work by six other artists — monochromatic paintings by Gerhard Richter , Alan Charlton , Robert Rauschenberg , Ad Reinhart , Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure , as she scowls at herself in the mirror , about the choice of films in which she contemplates a role . |
| 6 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 7 | For a few days , to use a word for which she has a penchant , Mrs Thatcher ‘ wobbled ’ . |
| 8 | He told you himself he moves a mattress into the boathouse on such occasions . |
| 9 | Although compressed into less than 18 months there are certain similarities between the two revolutions , in their tactics as well as their phases , and although it is not explicit there is a remarkable comparison that may be inferred from Devillers ' brilliant essay in which he describes a Vietminh , at the end of 1946 , already losing momentum and because of that , driven to imprudent acts : |
| 10 | The Wimbledon midfield player was severely punished for his oration in ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ , a video in which he describes a host of footballers ' dirty tricks . |
| 11 | Their vision was of a functionally differentiated society in which ‘ the individual is now created by the social organism of which he forms a part ’ and in which a state , founded on democracy tempered by respect for the expert , is required to co-ordinate the social order . |
| 12 | Now Bill , veteran of scores of television and newspaper forecasts , has produced a book in which he opens a treasure-chest of weather fact , fiction and folklore . |
| 13 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 14 | We sit upon our bed with a roll of foil , several bars of chocolate and the hardback edition of a Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective ( nicked from Dillons ) upon which he lays a tube and a neat square of foil flattened by his own deft fingers and the gear itself in its cosy half-inch envelope . |
| 15 | The adept begins in the stance known as yoi , and then progresses onwards through a series of solo techniques , in which he executes a set of movements against imaginary opponents . |
| 16 | The farmer provides the building , labour , gas , electricity , bedding , etc. , for which he receives a management fee . |
| 17 | These data allow us to clarify important observations on the Hotteterres made by their contemporary Borjon de Scellery in his Traité de la musette , in which he cites a father and two sons of the Hotteterre family as the ‘ most esteemed ’ makers of woodwind instruments and in particular of musettes and flutes . |
| 18 | It was like complimenting an assassin for the professional way in which he slides a stiletto under one 's ribs and into the heart . |
| 19 | A good example of a pluralist straw man can be found in Jack L. Walker 's attempted broadside , in which he constructs a version of pluralism which patently is unattributable to any individual writer . |
| 20 | His father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully , because the law lays it down that no-one is allowed to do on Sunday the work by which he earns a living , and the police were therefore not allowed to arrest anybody on a Sunday . |
| 21 | People like Calum Colvin have shaken that up a little , but even he ends up with a picture which he puts a frame around . |
| 22 | ‘ This is to ignore the fact that in the administration of justice in this country , the authority of any judicial pronouncement depends not upon the personal authority of the judge concerned , but upon the capacity in which he gives a decision or expresses an opinion . |
| 23 | Torrance has been working recently on improving his technique on short putts with which he has a problem because of the pendulum action of his broom-handle putter . |
| 24 | Where the holder of a bill has a lien on it arising either from contract or by implication of law , he is deemed to be a holder for value to the extent of the sum for which he has a lien . |
| 25 | WHEN Nick Faldo signs his autograph these days he uses the ‘ l ’ as a flagstick , on which he draws a flag bearing the number 11 . |
| 26 | Also in 1908 audiences could have seen Unemployed and Unemployable in which the central character begins by haranguing a crowd ; he is dragged off by his wife and given a whole range of domestic tasks all of which he makes a mess of ; he accidentally acquires stolen goods and is arrested ; the film ends with this ‘ lounger ’ working at last but in the cells . |
| 27 | I suggest that the typical history of a concept , whether it be ‘ chemical element ’ , ‘ atom ’ , ‘ the unconscious ’ , or whatever , involves the initial emergence of the concept as a vague idea , followed by its gradual clarification as the theory in which it plays a part takes a more precise and coherent form . |
| 28 | These services of course have to be paid for and we do aim to keep the level of taxation as low as possible but of course we ca n't aim to bring it down as far as conservatives would want because we need , we in the city need , to spend money on things like the education fund without which it becomes a city less worth living in . |
| 29 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's agreement with Eo Inc on the marketing and perhaps later the manufacturing of its Eo 440 and 880 handheld communicators in Europe ( CI No 2,124 ) involves the Italian taking the same stake as everyone else in Eo — the entry fee is $10m , with which it gets a seat on the firm 's board . |
| 30 | The subsidiary company can only use the ACT in any period throughout which it remains a subsidiary of the surrendering company . |