Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | His doe has a litter and she was making a noise over them rather like a robin in autumn . |
2 | It is also quick enough to get me somewhere in a hurry if I 'm called out on an emergency . |
3 | I think things have changed quite dramatically in the last few years certainly , we admit very few people and we see them mostly as an outpatient . |
4 | This was to draw the ‘ poor ’ and ‘ middle ’ peasants away from the private trade of the ‘ rich ’ and to turn them eventually towards an alliance ( smychka ) with urban inhabitants . |
5 | I was a convent-educated girl and he teased me mercilessly with a string of sexual connotations . ’ |
6 | Many have a dread of something happening that will plunge them suddenly into a situation of near-poverty , and a few also unconsciously use their financial problems as pegs on which to hang their much deeper fears concerning their health and their future , which they may find hard to face . |
7 | Her youth blazed at them suddenly like a torch kindled , a thin , bright , deeply-moulded face all pearl-tinted skin over abrupt , burnished bone , with a wide , firm , full-lipped mouth , and dark eyes . |
8 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
9 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
10 | When , and only when , the paper and the paint have completely dried , I emphasise the highlights by rubbing over them gently with a typewriter eraser , the variety which can be sharpened to a point to increase accuracy . |
11 | When , and only when , the paper and the paint have completely dried , I emphasise the highlights by rubbing over them gently with a typewriter eraser , the variety which can be sharpened to a point to increase accuracy . |
12 | ‘ I said to Bernie if they were mine I 'd want to take them inside on a night . |
13 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
14 | If they are smaller , staple them together as a pad for rough calculations . |
15 | They are given a time , but they never do , if you er , there 's no way you 're gon na get them together as a group for that time |
16 | Esther hinted that it was the grim circumstances of their childhood that had drawn them together with a love that dared not speak its name . |
17 | You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag . |
18 | He watched Tom lift two more saucepans from the range and empty them together with a handful of salt into the tub . |
19 | Last autumn a conference in Toronto brought them together for an update and planning meeting . |
20 | A party of people sets out on a journey with all its different components like the jumbled up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , Sophia thought , waiting for something — some event or just the passing of time — to fit them together into a whole . |
21 | A useful test of how effective your section headings are is that it should be possible to string them together into a paraphrase of what the essay says . |
22 | The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works . |
23 | Both beauties have refused offers to team them together in a film since neither wants to be upstaged . |
24 | ‘ Fate has thrown them together in a way which could have led to conflict , resentment and bitterness . |
25 | Having steadily reduced the preparation from organism to circuit , the stage was set for the final reduction ; Kandel 's colleague Samuel Schacher dissected out the specific sensory and motor neurons and incubated them together in a dish ( a procedure known as tissue culture ) . |
26 | She began to pack them together in a pile . |
27 | He showed me photographs of them together in a boat there , on a beach , in a restaurant . |
28 | You do n't have to gather them together in a group in order for that to be a successful piece of creative activity . ’ |
29 | Individually they are fine and I get on very well with most of them , but put them together in a group and they seem to have an attitude problem . |
30 | In an entire lunch-hour , those same members may produce only half a dozen verbal transactions between them , yet a multitude of non-verbal signals binds them together in a group . |