Example sentences of "[pron] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I a different person today ? |
| 2 | He shouted , so the doctor told Dexter , as if he were crying to someone a great distance away . |
| 3 | Someone a few doors away had their house gutted by fire last week . |
| 4 | Took my a long while ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Kevin sponsored a friend of mine a few years ago and took over his wife . |
| 6 | They were brought in shiploads and bundled away in an institution which a Swiss newspaper recently called ‘ an antechamber of death ’ and a British journal ‘ a modern entrance to Hades ’ . |
| 7 | She was too tired to be aware of much except the slight headache which a long journey always gave her , yet she felt curiously light-headed and carefree . |
| 8 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 10 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 11 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
| 12 | For although Red Rum went on to win two more Grand Nationals in 1974 and 1977 ( and to finish second in the intervening years of 1975 and 1976 ) , and although Crisp beat Red Rum easily the next time they met , there has never been a big race which a beaten horse so deserved to win . |
| 13 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 14 | Jane Rodin , prosecuting , yesterday told Kirkby magistrates the trouble started two days before the Sunday incident in which a 16-year-old girl innocently enjoying a drink was shot in the side . |
| 15 | Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy . |
| 16 | The traditional presumption upon which a clear consensus still exists is that against interference with personal liberty . |
| 17 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 18 | They say as many as twelve vehicles could have been blown over , and for the rest , its a slow journey home . |
| 19 | its a lovely day again today |
| 20 | Luke allowed himself a small smile then gave a brief nod in Merrill 's direction . |
| 21 | Ronnie returned to his native Midlands to become senior coach at Wolves in March 1965 , have completed exactly 100 League games for us and having made himself a popular fellow here at Selhurst Park . |
| 22 | He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets . |
| 23 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 24 | The Adjutant even permitted himself a rueful grin just as the office door itself opened and the CO strode in . |
| 25 | Is n't she a bonny baby now , Miss Rose ? |
| 26 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 27 | It had been Lewis himself who a few minutes earlier had taken the call from the Met . |
| 28 | He asked a senior nursing sister , who a few weeks earlier he had told that his wife had left him , for time off and left at 4.30pm . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there are certainly some Conservatives I could not bring myself to vote for — such as Mr Jack Aspinwall in my neighbouring seat of Wansdyke , who a few years ago was one of an all-party group of MPs who spoke far too warmly about the Ceausescu regime on a visit to Romania , and who lists as his only publication Kindly Sit Down ! , a collection of ‘ after-dinner stories from both Houses of Parliament ’ . |
| 30 | You might find architects who a few years ago were working on major projects , but are now making a living from loft extensions . ’ |