Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 2 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 3 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 4 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 5 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 6 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 7 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 8 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 9 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 10 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 11 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 14 | ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’ |
| 15 | I used to love driving that around , it was that long , me sat behind the wheel I looked like a dot in that ! |
| 16 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 17 | I have always been very conscious of this because the last aircraft I flew as a regular airline pilot were the old Douglas DC-6 B and the Convair 340 . |
| 18 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 19 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 20 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 21 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 22 | One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe . |
| 23 | For a term I lived in a room which looked out straight across to the tower . |
| 24 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 25 | Further controversy was prompted by a manifesto issued from the self-styled South London Ratepayers ' Association which called for a ‘ display of fearless strength ’ by local people , advising that ‘ a discriminating application of the ‘ cat-o'-nine-tails ’ ’ will soon sweep away this reign of terror' . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's the same side which finished on a high by winning the Divisional Premiership final at Old Trafford last May , apart from Aussie second row Paul Carr . |
| 27 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
| 28 | The Catholic Education Commission for Scotland welcomes the development of Short Courses in Religious and Moral Education , and endorses the considerations which led to a change in title . |
| 29 | After last season 's floppy-hatted waifs , this time around models were given hair styles which looked like a punk reworking of a clipped poodle ; make-up featured a spatter of sequin shapes glued on around the eyes . |
| 30 | But it was the main bedroom which came as a surprise and a shock . |