Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had had a sudden image of Syl bringing me breakfast in a bed which we had shared , and I heard myself saying aloud , ‘ No ! ’ |
| 2 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 3 | ‘ That will make them pause for a while , ’ Jehana said , her tone satisfied . |
| 4 | Pat Nevin 's signing has given them balance with a two wingers system that is committed to attacking . |
| 5 | Right I 'll read you this piece and you 'll have to forgive my facsimile of a Herts. accent . |
| 6 | Pitching my voice to a tone of mild puzzlement , I called , ‘ What 's a rattlesnake doing up here ? ’ |
| 7 | Moderator I declare my interest as a member of the panel on doctrine but I wanted to enquire whether Professor would be willing to include not only the problem of anti-semitism but what seems to me to be the opposite problem which also exists today , which is the problem of Zionism . |
| 8 | This process and this work represent my own attempts to acknowledge my position as a feminist artist and seriously to consider my responsibility and accountability as such . |
| 9 | I am fed up with French plaits and ponytails and refuse to wear my hair in a bun . |
| 10 | Recently , I tried to cancel my appearance at a benefit as my pianist was ill . |
| 11 | I have just wiped out a whole line by carelessly resting my finger on a key , and earlier it kept telling me ‘ mistake ’ — not , of course , helpfully saying what the mistake was . |
| 12 | Turning to its startled owner , she shouted , ‘ You filthy brute , touching my bottom in a crowded train ! ’ |
| 13 | The music of Throwing Muses has inhabited my flesh like a cold flame these past six months . |
| 14 | One day before we had moved up there I was at the melin for a few days with an actress friend from London when I announced my attendance at a jumble sale that afternoon . |
| 15 | It is for this reason , following on from Freud and Szasz , that I propose to treat my patient as a text . |
| 16 | I would turn down an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital . |
| 17 | The Luciferi of France ( I 'll come to those bastards later ) would like to see my head on a pole . |
| 18 | I 'm now playing live again , and I want the audience to see my recovery as a positive thing . |
| 19 | ‘ I want the audience to see my recovery as a positive thing ’ |
| 20 | I began to see my environment in a new light as I connected the shapes and patterns I found in it with mathematics . |
| 21 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 22 | She once asked my advice on a birthday gift , so I suggested a book . |
| 23 | The small flock of eight flitted before me along the hedgerow , drawing my attention to a white post in a bed of slender St John 's wort and wood sage . |
| 24 | I 'm not sticking my neck in a noose for you . ’ |
| 25 | To the right was the outline of the dovecot where , as a child , standing in the doorway with my back to the sunlight , I fought my shadow with a wooden sword . |
| 26 | But this purported resolution of the paradox , as Fried concedes , only demonstrates the compatibility of uninhibited freedom to enter contracts with respect for autonomy ; it ‘ does not show that I am morally obligated to perform my promise at a later time if to do so proves inconvenient or costly ’ . |
| 27 | On minute one one four , I 'm using my privilege as a chair to hang on to that ; the fact that the Poly are to hold a conference on health and housing in the new year . |
| 28 | The sledge hits a bump and I am off , using my camera as a snow hook . |
| 29 | Her most popular trick was to jump in the air and land on her stupid head — using my rucksack as a landing pad ! |
| 30 | I was using my car as a weapon . ’ |