Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these movements have had before them as a model the existing nation states , and have been influenced by nationalist ideas already formulated and widely disseminated . |
| 2 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 3 | If you could take them for a walk every day , from three to half-past four or something like that , I 'd be terribly grateful . |
| 4 | An enterprising firm of accountants , having taken expert legal advice , wrote around to B.C.C.I. depositors telling them of a scheme the accountants had prepared . |
| 5 | They do n't take them under a shilling a week , and God knows what they charge when they live in . |
| 6 | They 're locked in here , so she 's gon na get them for me in a minute no worry Is a drink snowball , she thinks It might not be . |
| 7 | He stretched out his hand , took the girl 's unresisting fingers and kissed them in a way the most professional courtier would have envied . |
| 8 | If he records his findings at each visit to a given process and plots them on a graph a tendency to drift can be detected . |
| 9 | If he records his findings at each visit to a given process and plots them on a graph a tendency to drift can be detected . |
| 10 | As a change from wet feet and sightseeing I was smuggled into an English-language class where we drank home-made slivovitz and one of the students , a lugubrious-looking individual called Miroslav who played the bassoon in the Moravia Philharmonic Orchestra , invited me to a concert the following evening . |
| 11 | ‘ Honour , ’ repeated Kit , a smile dancing mischievously in the corner of his lips , giving him for a moment the look of a sprite , a red-gold Puck no stranger to mischief . |
| 12 | The Association honoured him on his retirement with the award of a medal of honour and elected him as a Vice-President The following year he was made an OBE for his lifelong work for the deaf . |
| 13 | There was something about Rourke that stirred her in a way no other man had ever done … but , even so , a tiny voice of caution held her back . |
| 14 | Hawk did not look like a soce worker or a shrink , but he was getting to her in a way the juvie officials never used to . |
| 15 | Daryl remembered something your mother had told her in a letter a week or two before , she said that she 'd met Sally Hopes mother and had liked her and she said to that she 'd seen Mrs Hopes baby . |
| 16 | His leg seemed to have stopped bleeding , or very nearly , and he could n't have severed an artery or he 'd have bled to death by now , but all the same there had to be a pretty serious wound under the cloth of his trousers and the faster I could get him to a doctor the better . |
| 17 | Muffled in furs , Franklin D. Hauser left the complex in a snow buggy which drove him to a helipad a kilometre away . |
| 18 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 19 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 20 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 21 | You can do it with a turn the carnation pink or you know it 's white , that sort of thing . |
| 22 | Sheltering it with a hand the colour of yellow smoke , she shuffled across to the table by the far wall and lit the candle . |
| 23 | He must in the end get his man , and do it in a way the reader will find credible . |
| 24 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 25 | As ever , ESP are busy doing the obvious thing , but they 're doing it in a manner a cut above some of the other ‘ rawk ’ guitar manufacturers . |
| 26 | Roll it to a rectangle a little larger than the entire cake , about 32·5x38cm ( 13x15inches ) . |
| 27 | THE scene outside a Moscow hotel : a man in a suit unfurls an umbrella , turns it upside down and attaches it to a box the size of a fruit crate . |
| 28 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 29 | It were reasonable , quite re , er as a matter of fact we could afford to go on ho my father could afford to take us on a holiday every year . |
| 30 | Tell us on a postcard the Latin name of the domesticated Chinese silk moth and send it marked CL /Moth to the address on page 2 by 30 June . |