Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 2 | But he had left me and broken into a trot towards his block . |
| 3 | Robert picked up a wineglass from the low table that stood between them and scratched with a fingernail at the dry stain on the bottom of the glass . |
| 4 | She turned her back to him and fiddled with a trolley , and bit her cheek till it bled . |
| 5 | Maxim stopped trying to peer at the shadowed faces in front of him and put on a pair of sunglasses . |
| 6 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he said , watching her and flooded by a feeling that he had not expected . |
| 7 | His black eyes were sharp as he looked at her and thought for a moment . |
| 8 | The Swiss pair sped down over the Third Ice Field , zoomed out from the sheer rockface beneath it and landed with a crunch on the Second Ice Field ; then , as limbs were torn from their bodies , they launched again off the cliff , landed on the First Ice Field , and again careened down the slope and zoomed out and down . |
| 9 | The hospitality high in the alps is legendary , as is the food — all fresh , lots of it and served with a smile and great wine . |
| 10 | Rune is lifted carefully from it and placed upon a mound of plumped cushions . |
| 11 | Notes of questions arising out of the application form should be attached to it and used as a memory aid during the interview . |
| 12 | Parker licked at it and stuck on a bit of brown paper . |
| 13 | Or he could at least have appeared to accept it and put on a show : he was already capable enough of that . |
| 14 | * Instead of rinsing your pasta after cooking , drain it and put in a serving dish or back in the saucepan , then add a few knobs of soft butter . |
| 15 | Bernard excised it and put in a piece of nylon . ’ |
| 16 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 17 | Brian Elphick had been on Lambeth 's housing list for twelve years , having insinuated himself on to it when engaged to a woman he never married . |
| 18 | Georgian Justice Minister Dzhoni Khetsuriani had called on Aug. 31 for the dissolution of the parliament , describing it as elected on a " discriminatory electoral law " of July 1991 , which gave 28 of the 65 seats to the Abkhazians , actually a minority in Abkhazia [ see p. 39058 ] , while the Georgians had 26 and others 11 . |
| 19 | Yet another view regards it as formed in a similar manner from the gonopods of the 10th abdominal segment . |
| 20 | F five , now all of these you 've got to increase e something by something there so you 've got to change each of those percentages you 've got to think of it as added to a hundred and then the decimal equivalent . |
| 21 | If you have an electrical test meter you can devise one of your own , using two electrodes and measuring the current passing between them when pressed into a wall . |
| 22 | If we are to succeed as teachers ( or parents ) we must accept that children may well be brighter than us and blessed with a potential far beyond our own . |