Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 2 | My work experience includes one year as an accounts clerk , and two years as a shop assistant in a women 's clothes shop . |
| 3 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
| 4 | She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women 's magazine . |
| 5 | Perhaps we might try to think of an ideal university tutorial in an Arts subject as though it were a little world in isolation from everything else . |
| 6 | There was no inherent or common-law jurisdiction in a magistrates ' court to order rehearing of a case which had already been decided ( R. v. Campbell , ex. p . |
| 7 | President José Eduardo dos Santos joined an estimated 40,000 people who took part in an ecumenical thanksgiving Mass in a sports stadium in the capital , Luanda , on June 2 , marking the end of 16 years of civil war . |