Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 2 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 3 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 4 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 5 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 6 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 7 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 8 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 9 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 10 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 11 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 12 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 13 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 16 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’ |
| 18 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 19 | I used to love driving that around , it was that long , me sat behind the wheel I looked like a dot in that ! |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 21 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 22 | In 1986 the Eurotunnel prospectus was published and some of £206m of private money raised in what is generally termed Equity II , Equity I consisting of an earlier placement of £57m by the founder shareholders of Eurotunnel . |
| 23 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 24 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 25 | For a term I lived in a room which looked out straight across to the tower . |
| 26 | Pon de Telly dem talk fe a while |
| 27 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 28 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 29 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 30 | The Niue People 's Action Party ( NPAP ) , Niue 's only formal political association ( which was strongly opposed to the leadership of Sir Robert Rex who had dominated politics since Niue became self-governing ) , made gains with the victory of sympathizers including Tauveve Jacobsen , who retained the seat she won in a 1989 by-election , and Sani Lakitani , the founder of the NPAP . |