Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 2 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 3 | It is great to be around friends who have never had a weight problem and find that I have a lot more energy than them and certainly a lot more breath ! |
| 4 | Alyssia took a deep breath to steady her nerves , and then said unsteadily , ‘ Nicole is more to you than just a friend , is n't she ? |
| 5 | But at 17 stone , the health authority 's told her that only a 20-inch chair will do . |
| 6 | Wilson saw Henry Barrett in him and even a flash of his Grandfather Barrett . |
| 7 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 8 | He had not realized the impact on him until nearly a year later he found himself shaking and crying and saying to himself , ‘ I was nearly killed there ’ . |
| 9 | I know that girl , know her as only a mother can , and I know she 's not well . |
| 10 | He gave him as sharp a look as he dared . |
| 11 | There was more to it than just a change of style . |
| 12 | When the fins of fossil specimens are carefully dissected , the lobes at the base are found to be supported by one stout bone close to the body , two bones joined to it and finally a group of small bones — the pattern that is found in the limbs of all land vertebrates . |
| 13 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |
| 14 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 15 | and then that was it and then a bit later on , that was all they said about me haircut and then during the break somebody else said , there 's something else gone as well and they could n't make out what it what done mine in , my musical director he come , he says you know what will look nice now with that haircut do n't you ? |
| 16 | The performance of a skill is dependent on practising it and so a pupil 's success will be crucially dependent on how recently it has been practised . |
| 17 | I asked her whether she felt she could walk past them , giving them as wide a berth as the width of the pavement would allow . |
| 18 | There are also some that are actually innocuous but are seldom eaten for they have taken a rather complicated gamble by copying the colours of poisonous caterpillars to delude aggressors into giving them as wide a berth as the creatures they mimic . |
| 19 | Doubtless it will shock , but it may also remind us that even a princess of poise can crack under the strain of family tensions . |
| 20 | That 's something Friends of the Earth agrees with : ‘ It concerns us that recently a lot of proposals for courses have luxury houses or hotels with them , getting permission to put buildings where they might not otherwise have been . ’ |
| 21 | But our own food supply is being decimated around us and hardly a hand is being raised . |