Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps as curios , perhaps as a talisman he could use in some conspiracy against the King . |
| 2 | So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it . |
| 3 | So during a week you would be likely to shed one pound of surplus fat . |
| 4 | Apparently as a child she used to do it quite often . |
| 5 | For too long as a society we have neglected the potential of our children . |
| 6 | If our Lord had been resurrected only as a spirit it would have signified a victory over the spiritual world but the fact that it was a physical resurrection shows his sovereignty over history and the created world . |
| 7 | ‘ But equally naturally for a woman she was very frightened by what happened and you will hear from various colleagues she was very distressed afterwards . ’ |
| 8 | Once or twice I have heard her begin to tell the story of those days to some young man , but then halfway through a sentence she would go white with anger , knock back her gin and go silent . |
| 9 | Halfway through a session she invites husband and wife to change chairs and pretend to be each other . |
| 10 | So for a change I thought someone should write in for the fans . |
| 11 | So for a minute you have obviously got a hundred and eighty words and for two minutes it 's double that amount . |
| 12 | So for a second it seemed the most natural thing in the world when the ships airlock suddenly opened , and I stepped out of my cabin to see Sergia framed in the lock , with two male Ardakkeans behind her . |
| 13 | He will not feel able to leave , and so for a time he will strive to manage alone . |
| 14 | They pay no attention to us , so for a moment we can gawp in safety behind the scenes with the boys in blue . |
| 15 | So as a fraction you can just write , this is if you just write , that 's erm he over here you can put a heading fraction erm you can go back to your pen now . |
| 16 | So as a vet you believe there was severe stress ? |
| 17 | I grew up close to my godmother so as a child I was inoculated with the theatre . |
| 18 | So as a sideline I managed to persuade them to put out an album of the more acoustic stuff . |
| 19 | I had attended evening classes in Italian all winter and so after a pause I said ‘ I sogni non durano mai ’ — ‘ Dreams never last ’ . |
| 20 | It was absorbing work , scrambling over the rocks , especially hampered by a hat in one hand , so after a while she left the hat on a dry plateau beside a pool and pursued her way unencumbered . |
| 21 | But a good spy is supposed to take risks , so after a while I tiptoed along the passage to Claire 's door and peeped in . |
| 22 | It slowed things up to keep slipping it in and out of my jeans pocket so after a while I tucked it up the sleeve of my jersey . |
| 23 | So after a while you either caught the bus , the train , the car , or what , or walked it , got on your bike , whatever it was . |
| 24 | She glared at him , but there was too much at stake to risk a fight , so after a moment she pushed her hair away from her face and sat down , pulling one of the mugs towards her . |
| 25 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , get up , ’ said Angalo , embarrassed at the Abbot acting like that in front of someone who , however much of a friend he was , had n't been born a Store nome . |
| 27 | No matter how much of a slavey she might really be , a chambermaid never thinks of herself as a maid . |
| 28 | However much she might have set herself up to be hurt , she told herself defiantly , selecting white Bermudas and a cool Chinese-style silk blouse from her small selection of clothes , however much of a fool she might have made of herself , she would n't change a thing . |
| 29 | He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards . |
| 30 | Working the paint thickly with a knife I tried to create a jarring effect with colour and texture conveying the power and pain of the experience . |