Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 2 | It sleeps eight comfortably , and rents for between £352 and £489 each for a week if eight share , including hire of one car and flights , or £449 to £699 each if four take it . |
| 3 | Do n't do the i y , e one , because we 'll take that as a spelling and grammatical change . |
| 4 | The whole story is not yet known , although it 's claimed that North Korea er invaded South Korea er I sh I should take that as a hypothesis and not as a fact . |
| 5 | Can individuals and the community serve without spiritual values What about that as a starter before we look at the other questions , then . |
| 6 | He 'd always thought of that as a cliché before he met Emily . |
| 7 | Would they take that as a lesson and conform to the party 's expectations of educated youth ? |
| 8 | Campese dismissed the matter , but when he chose to put less confidence in the cover on the field and deliberately knocked down Peter Winterbottom 's pass , Bevan should have taken that as an admission that the so-far impregnable ‘ Gold Wall ’ was about to be breached . |
| 9 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |
| 10 | I took that as an indication that I could play him every match . |
| 11 | In the course of their mission , which takes each through a death and rebirth ( Harris is required to plunge to the bowels of the earth , breathing a kind of oxygenated foetal fluid ) , they learn to love each other again . |
| 12 | This makes no biological sense , of course , but it has a certain psychological validity , in that the significance to most members of our society of the difference between , say , a thrush and a blackbird is roughly comparable to that between a collie and a spaniel . |
| 13 | The relationship between these men and their clients was likened to that between a cobra and its prey . |
| 14 | It is clear from this , he said , that the connection between an insurer or insurance broker and his client is not nearly so firm as , for example , that between a solicitor and his client . |
| 15 | And then do that for a fortnight so she still did n't have any money . |
| 16 | All these examples pre-suppose , without justification , that for a school or college partnership means work-experience . |
| 17 | See well , you could er I still went with the horse and cart down there on a Saturday , take the meat , still the same I done that for a year or two . |
| 18 | I did that for a year until the scheme finished . |
| 19 | He 'll be doing that for a day or two , till I can take over my own wavelength completely . |
| 20 | ‘ Leave it like that for a day or two . ’ |
| 21 | That is a question I am afraid that is impossible to answer at this stage , that wo n't be known until he 's had a thorough investigation by the surgeons at the hospital who er probably wo n't be able to answer that for a day or two yet . |
| 22 | you see I go on fruit and that for a day and all I do the next day is get a terrible cramp in the stomach |
| 23 | And do that for a while as well as some , some voluntary work . |
| 24 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 25 | Oh we have n't read that for a while cos you read them to yourself now do n't you ? |
| 26 | Was that for a couple or single ? |
| 27 | And you could go to that for a weekend if |
| 28 | Okay so we 've got thirteen pounds forget about that for a minute and then fifty pence . |
| 29 | Okay we 'll leave that for a minute and we 'll have a look so you can forget all about it right then I 'll ask you later when you 've forgotten okay . |
| 30 | And I have not , and I would n't want to unless she was in such a condition , can you manage to sit there like that for a moment while I 'll manage to go and get a pad ? |