Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I had learnt to ride , the trick of balancing took me quite a while , that bike , over the next four years gave me enormous pleasure . |
| 2 | The influential Bell study gave them largely a clean bill of health as a model for determining disputes concerning entitlement to benefit . |
| 3 | She had brought the baby to the Lab to see him only a fortnight ago . |
| 4 | The ‘ gruelling ’ , or at least rigorous , element in the approval process made it frequently a long one , and was often accompanied by the traumatic shock or disappointment of rejection . |
| 5 | And me mam says , oh just for a change to give someone else a chance . |
| 6 | The Deputy Head poured them both a very large gin and tonic . |
| 7 | When she concluded by asking if Madame Vassoir still had the letter from Beatrix and if its contents could have provoked Samantha 's abduction , her hostess poured them both a glass of sherry before replying . |
| 8 | The shock of the assault carried them both a yard or two back along the passageway . |
| 9 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 10 | If one possessed a $100 bill , and if the price level fell ten thousandfold overnight , one would wake up next morning to find oneself effectively a millionaire . |
| 11 | She kissed the balding patch on the back of his head as she clambered off the bed and went to the fridge to pour them both a drink . |
| 12 | of all , preserv 'd me still A Poet , made me seek |
| 13 | Edward Topsel , the English naturalist , writing in 1658 stipulated that , to cure blindness , or pains in the eye : ‘ Take the head of a black Cat , which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within , then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye ’ — the italics were not used in the original , but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head . |
| 14 | Still , the thought gave me quite a jolt of pleasure . |
| 15 | Three times their number drove them unrelentingly a mile and more through the broken copses and across the brook south of Cegidfa . |
| 16 | In Example 71 the two lower voices have ‘ clanging ’ motifs which evoke the atmosphere of the blacksmith 's forge : Here the ostinatos are unchanging pedal notes , but of course they could be recurring musical designs with changing harmonic potential to give them both a structural and an emotional purpose . |
| 17 | The sudden motion brought her forward a step , so that suddenly they were barely a breath apart . |
| 18 | His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week |
| 19 | Erm but dad visits him quite a lot . |
| 20 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 21 | But he said nothing of this , merely noted down her address , sighed a little at it , and made his latest recruit promise to visit him once a week with her piece . |
| 22 | But he bore no malice , and on the way back to the hotel gave me quite a run-down on his cousin Ena , who he said had once been Queen of Spain . |
| 23 | Banks and securities firms lag behind their rivals elsewhere in innovation , and have lost what competitive edge Japan 's relatively low interest rates and strong currency gave them abroad a few years ago . |
| 24 | Though his expression gave nothing away a muscle flickered at the point of his jaw . |
| 25 | In order to make it just a little bit trickier the words can read forwards , backwards , up , down and diagonally . |