Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to Mr Vigo for them about a month back . ’ |
| 2 | Maybe he would show Eleanor to her as a sample of the younger woman who was not a gold-digger . |
| 3 | From the beginning of his reign , the Emperor made plain his conviction that only by drawing England to him in a firm and fully functioning understanding , an entente cordiale , could France hope to regain her position in European affairs . |
| 4 | She turned and found Jimmy Warren behind her with a young girl dressed similarly to him in jeans and a leather jacket , her red hair wild and tousled . |
| 5 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 6 | Perhaps he left his previous London headquarters at 182 Camberwell New Road in something of a hurry , for a new base was quickly found at 9 Jeremiah Street , Poplar , the offices of the Green 's Home branch of the old union , at the rent of 95 a week , " starting afresh with the loan of two chairs and a table , sixpence worth of writing paper and six penny stamps for establishing communications with friends in other ports " . |
| 7 | However they may express his uniqueness , they must say of Jesus of Nazareth that there was a revelation of God through him in a way in which this is not true of you or me . |
| 8 | She told Antonia about it in a hushed voice the night her friend came to sleep over at her house . |
| 9 | Suitably bowdlerized , said Viola to herself with a grim smile : if she knew Walter , there was a good deal of slap and tickle involved which did n't get into the account . |
| 10 | No bourgeois could become a real aristocrat in , say , Russia or Prussia , and even where patents of low nobility were freely distributed , as in the Habsburg Empire , no Count Chotek or Auersperg , however ready to join the board of directors of a business enterprise , would consider a Baron von Wertheimstein as anything except a middle-class banker and a Jew . |
| 11 | I was in the bar at the theatre and everyone famous was there — Pauline from ‘ EastEnders ’ and the Queen ( she was dragging Princess Anne behind her in a pushchair ) and Meryl Streep and Samantha Fox and Rowan Atkinson and Paul McCartney looking like Lady Macbeth — his hands were dripping with blood . |
| 12 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 13 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 14 | The worst thing by far , and what I can never get used to , is that we went around Europe with them for a month , living with them , sleeping in the same room , and apart from the odd bit of nagging , everything was fine . |
| 15 | He had promised the Abbey buildings to Anne of Cleves , but had not put his Royal seal to the document , leaving Anne in something of a predicament after his death . |
| 16 | He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun . |
| 17 | Asquith 's fall was the result of his own miscalculation , especially of his reluctance to believe that the Unionists would prefer Lloyd George to himself in a contest . |
| 18 | Rachel asked as the jet roared into take-off , leaving London behind them in a blue-grey dawn . |
| 19 | However , for occasional days when you might find yourself caught out with no time or ingredients ( try to plan ahead to avoid this : you can easily carry Fibre-Filler with you in a plastic bag in your handbag ! ) we have listed a few alternative very high-fibre breakfasts in The F-Plan Meals . |
| 20 | But then Waqar bowled newcomer Richard Blakey for 25 while Wasim dismissed Chris Lewis for one and Phillip DeFreitas for nought during a deadly double wicket maiden . |
| 21 | According to the BBC , the only chance Bunter has of getting on television again would be to update Greyfriars into something like a public school version of Grange Hill . |
| 22 | It was like taking Warren Beatty and Sean Penn with you on a hot date . |