Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the adult position it will be clear that he or she was not in fact guilty of anything but that someone in a position of strength and power was taking advantage of his or her vulnerability mentally as well as physically . |
| 2 | I have met women who epitomize the ‘ good mother ’ ; they genuinely love and care for their children and give them a great deal of attention , playing with them and guiding them in a way that most of us feel we can never emulate . |
| 3 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 4 | In the UK it is easy to form the impression that if you tried to get a closer look at something like this someone in a uniform would break both of your legs . |
| 5 | Figure 7.5 Which of a pair of male sticklebacks wins in a territorial dispute depends on where the fight takes place , as a simple experiment by Niko Tinbergen demonstrates . |
| 6 | There is still a division of labour between politicians and administrators in pluralist theory , though it is a very different one to a model of government in which politicians make policy and administrators implement them . |
| 7 | ‘ I borrowed this one off a pal who wants it back by nightfall . |
| 8 | Could I draw this one to a close by suggesting that the procedure owners , who own the procedures identified in the take on board the need to make a minor adjustment to set the principle in place and the . |
| 9 | I devised this one for a sewing box with a 50mm deep lid . |
| 10 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 11 | When Derek Davy and I were trying to solve this one for a book which eventually appeared as Advanced Conversational English , it proved to be an expensive and time-consuming , but eminently worthwhile task . |
| 12 | Mary took the five pound salmon from her bag , wrapped in newspaper , ‘ in which case , ’ she continued , ‘ Yanto said you could have this one for a pound , and it 's worth a least two pounds ten , as you know . |
| 13 | I reckon even the insurance company will accept this one as a write-off . |
| 14 | I could see her thinking , ‘ We ca n't send this one on a book tour . ’ |
| 15 | Another horse fell , this one with a leg bone shattered by a musket-ball . |
| 16 | And this one with a pre-invitation : |
| 17 | When I got back to Australia , I saw this one in a music store and just had to have it . |
| 18 | double white lines system , We 'll show you this one in a minute , and coming the other way you will see there 's an overtake . |
| 19 | We are grateful to accept prizes such as this one from a theatre promotions agency . |
| 20 | For their size , they can be quite quick , as anyone who has followed a lively one across a garden or road will testify . |
| 21 | There was another one with a name new to us . |
| 22 | Another one with a chorus to learn , all about the wonderful joys of … |
| 23 | If I 'd had another one with a couple of |
| 24 | I I , If I 'd another one with a couple of |
| 25 | We went to another one on a Saturday job . |
| 26 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 27 | Quickly he went down the ladder , crossed the kitchen and snatched up the top one of a pile of washed sacks from behind the kitchen door . |
| 28 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 29 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 30 | ‘ Nice to have a fresh one for a change . ’ |