Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do believe that women experience another , relentless denial of their powers , which begins as soon as they can speak , if not before , and makes the act of writing for them primarily an act of rebellion . |
| 2 | Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses . |
| 3 | I used to go to him and say , ‘ Bill , please try and get them to do this ’ , and he did fight for me quite a lot , but it was an uphill struggle all the way . |
| 4 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 5 | When he called off his fast a week later , a pro-government newspaper headlined its story ‘ Maquio ends his diet ’ . |
| 6 | The work is based on a highly successful biology textbook for first examinations , for which only a braille transcription exists . |
| 7 | We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work . |
| 8 | It took the three of them over an hour to reach the bottom of the slope , where they came to a halt . |
| 9 | When he is subordinate to both of them then a partnership with either animal may be established as an aid to intervention . |
| 10 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 11 | After anxiety expressed by foreign bankers over the uncertain legal status of the foreign debt of the four existing concerns under the new structure , and after it was confirmed on July 20 that a fifth state holding company , Efim , had unilaterally declared a moratorium on its debts , of which over a quarter was owed to foreign banks , for up to two years , the government announced on July 23 that the companies , IRI , ENI , ENEL and INA , which had all on July 13 become joint stock companies , would remain under Treasury control . |
| 12 | In 1721 she had 124 ships of the line and 105 smaller vessels , of which roughly a quarter had been built since 1714 . |
| 13 | The company says that it has received inquiries from about 470 companies , of which perhaps a quarter are potential customers . |
| 14 | The British Library Act state quite clearly that books may be disposed of if they are duplicates , though this raises the question of what exactly a duplicate is . |
| 15 | Here we are , hale and hearty , neither of us exactly a moron . |
| 16 | Lot number twenty twenty is a quantity of stands there we are , we 've got a sample showing for you just a sample showing fifty for the lot the whole lot there for fifty pounds at fifty pounds want them for fifty pounds thank you sir , fifty pounds I 've got , at fifty five going on fifty five , sixty pounds , sixty five coming in sir ? |
| 17 | ‘ And thus he continued ’ , writes Baxter , ‘ raging against me about a year , and then died of a fever in horror of conscience . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Even though John has a busy and demanding job as planning manager at Broadgreen Hospital , he would be up with me twice a night to feed the babies , Andrew and Daniel . |
| 19 | ‘ Even though John has a busy and demanding job as planning manager at Broadgreen Hospital , he would be up with me twice a night to feed the babies , Andrew and Daniel . |
| 20 | I know a guy who bowls at the Bromley Bowling Club in exactly and he told me that they have professional green keepers who look after lots of different greens and they come into them once a week or whatever . |
| 21 | The first is : if your father ran off with someone only a couple of years older than you , what this probably means is that he really wanted to run off with you . |
| 22 | ‘ When she was just seventeen she fell in love with someone quite a bit older than she was . |
| 23 | They embraced at the last , but did not speak for fear of the clarity with which even a whisper might carry here . |
| 24 | This suspicion is particularly strong among biblical scholars , and one of them , Principal T.M. Knox , said more than twenty years ago ‘ The spirit moveth where it listeth and is not to be reduced to the numerical terms with which alone a computer can cope ’ . |
| 25 | Our charge against the metaphysician is not that he attempts to employ the understanding in a field where it can not possibly venture , but that he produces sentences which fail to conform to the conditions under which alone a sentence can be literally significant . |
| 26 | Find another two people to be prayer partners with you once a week so that some of these prayer burdens can be shared and agreed on and so that you can be spurred on by each other 's zeal in prayer . |
| 27 | By the end of 1989 , however , the relentless way in which Kylie 's team tracked the ‘ pirates ’ had turned what had been a tide into something nearer a trickle . |
| 28 | As I 'm not the person to answer you very little to get , I 'm get into something quite a lot , you know ? |
| 29 | The fund of goodwill , of love even , which she had brought with her just a year ago , must be almost exhausted . |
| 30 | He 's been going with her quite a while , though has he ? |