Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had already thrown yesterday 's damp tea-leaves on to the parlour carpet , and when she had finished in the surgery would take a small , hard hand-brush and , down on her knees yet again , would painstakingly sweep them all up into a dustpan , to remove the previous day 's dirt and dust , Miss Mates said , and purify the air . |
| 2 | Of course , dustproof bags , cases for machines , and strong plastic covers for papers and boxes of computer disks can be a great help , but above all , keep a constant check on all your materials and if you are away from your house for a long time , lock them all up in a metal trunk or barrel and ask a local friend to check your house for termites from time to time . |
| 3 | You had to put them all on in a piece you see with the tube in it and er things became much easier when the wheel base trim came in . |
| 4 | We can not afford to get them all here for a costume call . ’ |
| 5 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
| 6 | He gathered them all together with a quick look round . |
| 7 | Or if you have a number of outstanding debts , such as credit card charges and hire purchase deals , a remortgage can pay them all off at a much lower rate of interest to help you reduce your outgoings . |
| 8 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 9 | I 've got an idea , you can take them all back in a |
| 10 | The Springers have now decided to sell and do it all again on a plot not far away — but this time with an indoor pool for year-round use and half-doors so children can be kept within sight of the kitchen and gym . |
| 11 | Yet since leaving Marcus I had let my imagination blow it all up into a Great Romance . |
| 12 | Mm I think if you try and do it here , so you make it into a shoe shape , you curl it all up into a shoe shape , where do you think it 's going to go ? |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , ’ chimed in his wife , who had sworn to love , honour and echo , ‘ save it all up into a nice little nest egg . ’ |
| 14 | The tapes are erased afterwards what they do is somebody types it all up and erm then they build it all up on a computer . |
| 15 | Do n't you agree that you never know what you are going to find there but on the other hand if you ignore the expiry date and crunch it all up with a lot of jam , or even a lot of Nivea , it all goes down the red lane and things start to brighten up ? |
| 16 | Over the past year , I 've come across a dozen or more men of my age who are with women who simply are n't willing to give it all up for a baby . |
| 17 | While it is unremarkable to observe that although some people eat three meals a day , and others miss out breakfast and lunch altogether , taking all their food in the evenings , there is no such parallel during sleep — no normal person has been found who , for instance , takes all his or her REM sleep in one session of ninety minutes at the beginning of the night , or saves it all up for a session in the early hours of the morning . |
| 18 | And you screw it all up in a single day . |
| 19 | It would be madness to throw it all away for a few moments of nerve-storming passion . |
| 20 | It was the best thing to be quiet and say nothing — to push it all away into a dark place like the cupboard under the stairs so it could be forgotten like an old raincoat or last summer 's shoes . |
| 21 | How else should a person look , while , in the course of a single ceremony , he kisses everything goodbye — just blows it all away in a prodigal storm of confetti and rice ? |
| 22 | I do n't suppose I 'll be able to take it all in for a while . |
| 23 | I was ready to chuck it all in after a decision that flew in the face of reason . |
| 24 | Indeed Bob Arum , the promoter , who put it all down to a conflict of styles , recently dismissed his ranked middleweight Michael Nunn for such a negative performance . |
| 25 | Erlich wrote it all down in a pocket notebook , longhand . |
| 26 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
| 27 | I particularly found the Aldershot method important because what it gives you is a clear structure to what you have to say when you stand up if you 're going to introduce by saying what you 're going to say before you expand and then at the end summarise and bring it all back to a nice conclusion . |
| 28 | Dropping her head , she tugged a brush vigorously through the rippling red-gold , and then tossed it all back in a wild wavy curtain . |
| 29 | And then I could put it all back in a ponytail except for a bit at the front dripping down . |
| 30 | Morning chats introduce the options ; righting drill , tailchasing in Lasers , knotting with spinnakers , knitting with trapeze wires , tacking Hobie cats , and threading it all together with a local regatta . |