Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 2 | If , as is all too common , Scots lawyers have to apply in their own system a document imperfectly adapted to their own familiar terms , such as is the RICS scale in this particular , it may be of some advantage to know what ‘ rent reserved ’ means , at least in the country in which it originated . |
| 3 | Erm I 'm half and half I I I go along with Angela in the main that the the kids in , generally speaking the kids that I 've talked to do n't want to put their own input a lot of them do n't want to because , as Angela says , they can not find the appropriate words and some of the others just write some some stuff that I would look at |
| 4 | The firm has scored a hit in adapting to its own computer a set of American software called Unix . |
| 5 | She also took her own soldiery a step further . |
| 6 | She has also predicted her own death a week before my return to Achnacarry . |
| 7 | Here the skilled operator establishes in her own consciousness a network of alarm signals which go off when the train of thought starts chugging along in a dangerous direction . |
| 8 | She lost her own baby a week ago , from shock we all think , after her husband was killed , that terrible business I wrote to you about , and she still has plenty of milk . |
| 9 | Had his mother shouted and screamed on the edge of a cliff , calling her own mother a prostitute ? |
| 10 | I will say Well can I send you some information a letter and that sort of thing ? |
| 11 | In some older dances they each hold a corner of a handkerchief to form a link and in some areas they link little fingers . |
| 12 | Is it any way a forgery ? |
| 13 | He was immediately given extended leave to undergo psychiatric therapy but refused to cooperate with the medical staff and was retired from Delta at his own request a month after he returned to work . |
| 14 | It need not come as a surprise to learn that Wittgenstein is in his own way a foundationalist . |
| 15 | Then , by birth and by upbringing , he offers in his own person a connection between the Czechoslovakia now beginning to resume its history after 20 years in the deep freeze and both the pre-war Republic and the experiment in state socialism that followed liberation from the Nazis . |
| 16 | The inquiry report also said he appeared to have sprinted off the track for his own safety a finding strongly challenged by course officials . |
| 17 | The inquiry report also said he appeared to have sprinted off the track for his own safety a finding strongly challenged by course officials . |
| 18 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 19 | He demanded the removal of the permanent secretary to the Treasury , Sir Robert ( later Baron ) Chalmers [ q.v. ] , and he countermanded on his own authority a Treasury request for the transfer of gold from Canada . |
| 20 | Some time after he retired ( he worked until he was seventy-five or seventy-six : he shod his own pony a month before he died ) he said to my father : |
| 21 | He could draw on his own bank a cheque payable in his own currency and despatch it to the exporter . |
| 22 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 23 | A year later , living above the shop — a 150-year-old converted granite cottage — he finds running his own business a lot more stimulating than working in a bank , and village life much more fun . |
| 24 | " By the grace of God there is born to us this night a King who shall be a hammer to the King of the English . " |
| 25 | ‘ About an hour after you left us this morning a party of soldiers arrived . |
| 26 | Give us more wool a bit and me needles |
| 27 | The argument from analogy supposes that you can construct from your own case a concept of pains which can be felt by others rather than by you . |