Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had brought the baby to the Lab to see him only a fortnight ago . |
| 2 | And me mam says , oh just for a change to give someone else a chance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In order to make it just a little bit trickier the words can read forwards , backwards , up , down and diagonally . |