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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The relationship between these men and their clients was likened to that between a cobra and its prey . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And then do that for a fortnight so she still did n't have any money . |
| 13 | All these examples pre-suppose , without justification , that for a school or college partnership means work-experience . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I did that for a year until the scheme finished . |
| 16 | He 'll be doing that for a day or two , till I can take over my own wavelength completely . |
| 17 | ‘ Leave it like that for a day or two . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | And do that for a while as well as some , some voluntary work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Oh we have n't read that for a while cos you read them to yourself now do n't you ? |
| 23 | Was that for a couple or single ? |
| 24 | And you could go to that for a weekend if |
| 25 | Okay so we 've got thirteen pounds forget about that for a minute and then fifty pence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Now the diabetic , I 'll leave that for a moment because I 'll do that in a moment , erm the absorption , usually gardeners , agricultural people that have , dealing with ordinary insecticides , pesticides , herbicides and all the other -cides that er , are about today , they 're usually protected , but sometimes either you get somebody in a garden with and using all these things and they , they do n't read packets do they any more ? |
| 29 | ‘ You should be able to stand like that for a week before the nerve implants get tired . |
| 30 | 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 . |