Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was starting to feel like a bundle of notes about himself in a case-history folder in hospital , one of the folders labelled ‘ NOT TO BE HANDLED BY PATIENT . ’ |
| 2 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
| 3 | But , rightly , ICI is acting as if a bid is imminent , preparing its defences and making plans for itself in a way that guarantees that much will change at the firm . |
| 4 | Arguably the most satisfying of all winter puddings for anyone with a trencherman appetite is Sussex Pond Pudding . |
| 5 | She did n't take her eyes off him for a moment . |
| 6 | The mother said she hardly took her eyes off him for a second . ’ |
| 7 | Although ‘ t is easy to see that he could not leave you behind , nor take his eyes off you for a moment . |
| 8 | In April he was still having difficulty in completing the book and in a letter to Henry Treece in September he was again expressing doubts about himself as a writer . |
| 9 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 10 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 11 | When he was looking to expand with another concept , he looked at the labels in his shops for something with a distinctive yet commercial image and decided on this French casualwear label . |
| 12 | We will have words for you in a minute , ’ and he turned round to the crowd . |
| 13 | What she is describing are characteristics of herself as a person , qualities of her own individual personality . |
| 14 | He did simmer down at times , enough to recognise his tendency to pour oil on the fire , and catch glimpses of himself as a ‘ half-strange , half-tiresome person . ’ |
| 15 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 16 | A HAIRDRESSER whose boss slipped topless pictures of her into a style book for his male customers won a sex discrimination case yesterday . |
| 17 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
| 18 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 19 | So , I have pictures of myself as a boss , a father , a spouse , a friend , etc . |
| 20 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 21 | Coupled with a wave of popular sympathy for Gaddafi as a bereaved father , resentment at what was seen as Washington 's bully-boy tactics appeared to have rallied the Libyans behind him with a solidarity he had rarely enjoyed before . |
| 22 | It is up to the Vendors to allocate the risks amongst themselves via a separate Deed of Contribution . |
| 23 | Withdrawal of a pupil from sex education in fact presents schools with something of a dilemma — whether to accede to parental wishes , which may reflect the parent 's philosophical or religious convictions , or whether to make the welfare of the child the paramount consideration . |
| 24 | Silver pulled at the rope that held me , and turned his eyes upon me with a deadly look . |
| 25 | From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route , at times coming obliquely towards the Friar , and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him : thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland , so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover , so perfectly did he merge with the duns , browns , russets , and half-greens of the wood . |
| 26 | The other three turned their eyes on her like a trio of hanging judges . |
| 27 | I tugged him gently along the walkway , which was made of planks , I discovered , with short mooring posts sticking up at intervals , needing me to lift his legs over one at a time . |
| 28 | She wanted him to hold her properly , to put his arms around her in an embrace that would shut out the world ; she needed to feel the hot , demanding pressure of his lips on hers in a kiss that would take away the nagging ache of uncertainty . |
| 29 | He homed to the nameless grave like a pigeon , and fell on his knees beside it with a great sob of thankfulness . |
| 30 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |