Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 2 | Do n't do the i y , e one , because we 'll take that as a spelling and grammatical change . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Would they take that as a lesson and conform to the party 's expectations of educated youth ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The relationship between these men and their clients was likened to that between a cobra and its prey . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All these examples pre-suppose , without justification , that for a school or college partnership means work-experience . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 'll be doing that for a day or two , till I can take over my own wavelength completely . |
| 13 | ‘ Leave it like that for a day or two . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Was that for a couple or single ? |
| 18 | Okay so we 've got thirteen pounds forget about that for a minute and then fifty pence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Just walk around with that for an hour or so . |
| 21 | But one does feel sometimes — is a film entitled to sweep you so compellingly into someone else 's life so completely that for an hour and a half you are them — is it then entitled to drop you just when this character is in a perfectly hopeless situation ? |
| 22 | Because I mean , that , it , it costs the earth anyway , that damn stuff , it really does , with it , and it 's a , well I , I did it on about eight hundred sheep so you know , my men are stuck in this for a day or two . |
| 23 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 24 | And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home . |
| 25 | Continue this for a week or two , and compare the two records to see if there are any likely suspects . |
| 26 | I puzzled over this for a week or so , before a second whisper clarified the message . |
| 27 | ‘ So I thought bugger this for a lark and got rid of them , and the next couple of days I tried to ring you , but … ’ |
| 28 | She thought about this for a moment or two and then said : ‘ I see no harm in that . |
| 29 | It was more practicable to do this for a district or industry , since firm-by-firm bargaining was precluded for want of suitable union organisation to bring together all employees at the workplace . |
| 30 | There could well be some of this between a male and female as they pair , but if they do not settle down then you can assume they are both males . |