Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 2 | ‘ I am a Spurs supporter and my kids would never forgive me . ’ |
| 3 | Stick with a non-Windows solution and you 'll be maximizing your existing investment — without having to waste time converting your data , and without having to relearn or reprogram . |
| 4 | When a production manager for example , meets a customer to discuss a quality problem or a minor design change , he is fulfilling a marketing role ; and so is a personnel manager when he negotiates an agreement with union representatives that a particular customer 's goods may be moved from the premises during a strike . |
| 5 | Erm tt I think , oh dear , I saw an advert in the paper I think to , to take out a savings plan or something and I just signed up a , a form and back it came . |
| 6 | By this time they had purchased a building which had been I think a a bank or a savings bank or something at Street in Porthmadog . |
| 7 | from erm Andy there 's a party and a units party but he does n't know anything about a units party . |
| 8 | oh yes it 's the er West Worthing Club and do you have a regular , you know , partner you play with , is it er er a doubles match and who would cos you 're then sort of sounding out whether there 's referral business in that one . |
| 9 | They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is . |
| 10 | Well le , shall we take a vote on the first word and then decide whether it 's a park , a sports field or a a sports park or whatever ? |
| 11 | He said , now go to go to your section house get a sports jacket or something , and go with this police officer , he said I 'll get a police van , he said go with this police officer to Liverpool Street Station , he said and take charge of this prisoner while he gets a ticket , for Ipswich . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to see a sports psychologist because I have n't been focusing on the job and I must become more positive . ’ |
| 13 | Its engine was American , its assembly was completed in America , it would n't have happened without Shelby 's American dream , but underneath it all the Shelby AC Cobra was a British a sports car as you could wish to see . |
| 14 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
| 15 | ‘ If you have a row of garish shirts in all sorts of colours on a rack in a sports shop and one in just black , which one is going to stick out ? |
| 16 | Similarly , I found it hard to believe that Neil Morrissey , as Danny in the Comedy Playhouse pilot Stuck On You , was a sports journalist when he seemed able to fulfil all his professional obligations without leaving his flat . |
| 17 | I 'm a Customs officer and I arrest him ! ’ |
| 18 | He drove to a Customs depot where it was sealed by Spanish Customs officers . |
| 19 | SUSPECTED Muslim extremists shot dead a plainclothes policeman as he left his home near Assiut in southern Egypt , police said . |
| 20 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
| 21 | Space is limited and the only other tank I have is a 21″ cube and I ca n't put him in there because it contains two small G. jurupari , a pair of G. brasiliensis , a pair each of Crenicara filamentosa , Cichlasoma sajica and Butterfly Rams , and an Ancistrus . |
| 22 | He gives a running commentary on what is happening at the moment in the game but also gives a players history where he thinks it will help the reader to understand to a fuller extent what is happening in the play . |
| 23 | We went there , we took it with us , all this load , And what it was it was a forces couple and they were coming back to this country from Germany or somewhere like that , so we had n't seen them . |
| 24 | Helen Sharman has been visiting a girls school where she opened a two million pound science block . |
| 25 | ‘ Jones was at the club as a YTS player when I arrived . |
| 26 | There is a games room where you can play pool or table-tennis , and live music is planned for the summer . |
| 27 | now do I do n't suppose I 'm the only person that 's been in a pub toilet , a ladies toilet and I 've heard the females in the toilet saying what , exactly what they would like to do the males ! |
| 28 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What will you have ? ’ he enquired , going over to a drinks table while she tested out the couch and discovered that its appearance of comfort was no lie . |
| 30 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |