Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time ever there 's racing at Cheltenham this sunday … its going to be a fun day … and so too is tomorrow for the winner of the first big steeplechase of the year … it 's the Mackeson Gold Cup … there 's fifty five thousand pounds in prizemoney … our search for a winner takes us to Herefordshire and a horse called Spacefair |
| 2 | The Holy Spirit is given us to identify us as belonging to Jesus , just as the seal on a letter or the brand on a sheep identifies it as mine . |
| 3 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 4 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 5 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 6 | A manacle secures them to the Dubrovlag . |
| 7 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 8 | The infliction of pain upon a horse affects it in a very profound way . |
| 9 | He is represented as granting land at Hoo in Kent to an Abbot Ecgbald ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , and a grant of land at Farnham , perhaps dating to 686 , for the founding of a monastery reveals him with authority in Surrey ( CS 72 : S 235 ) . |
| 10 | She says the volunteers who answer the phone are prepared to deal any problem a child contacts them with , no matter how small it may seem . |
| 11 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 12 | When a child loves you for a long , long time , says the Skin Horse , then you gradually become Real . |
| 13 | A US-German committee that issued a preparatory report on the need for such a council sees it as a forerunner for an institution to promote cooperation between the United States and all of Europe . |
| 14 | Hazel heard its beak hit a pebble in the grass with a sound like a snail-shell when a thrush beats it on a stone . |
| 15 | A promenade links it with Alassio . |
| 16 | A butterfly sticks them on the leaves of the particular plant that her caterpillars eat ; a blowfly on the dead flesh that her maggots will relish ; and some wasps , for the sake of their young , become body-snatchers . |
| 17 | ‘ If a girl returns it to you , good and well ; though a jeweller will not give you as much as you paid for it . |
| 18 | Similarly there is no liability if a railway company , acting upon A 's directions , carries B's goods , honestly believing that A has B's authority to give such directions or , of course , where a finder removes them to a place of safety . |
| 19 | R v Stanley ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 2 Oct 1989 Where a judge has it in mind to make a compensation order but the possibility has not been raised by counsel , it is the judge 's duty to raise the matter of his own motion so that it may be properly and fairly ventilated . |
| 20 | In the same way , when a teacher adjusts you into an upright position you will probably feel as though you are about to fall over in a forwards direction . |
| 21 | Britain had beaten Poland 4-3 in the World Championships Pool B in Eindhoven earlier this year , and the loss of a point leaves them with a formidable task against tournament favourites Latvia and Slovakia next week , with only one team qualifying for Lillehammer . |
| 22 | Only one shower for the whole crew today , and just a curtain divides us from Pearl Jam . |
| 23 | When the facades are swept away it is the use , misuse or disuse of courtesy that indicates whether a person respects you as a human being — or sees you and treats you as a nuisance , servant Or enemy . |
| 24 | Perm lotion breaks down the natural structure of your hair , then a neutraliser resets it into a new shape around a curler . |
| 25 | Today , the average intake of 20g a day puts us among the lowest fibre-consumers in the world . |
| 26 | A friend fills hers with miniature whisky bottles for the men and lace handkerchiefs for the women . |
| 27 | A FRIEND tells me of a post-electoral poster war which has broken out in his salubrious street in north Kensington , London , quite different in tone from the good-humoured gobbing on one another 's doorsteps which characterised neighbourly relations during the three weeks preceding the day that the revolution failed to dawn . |
| 28 | A friend sends them to him from India . |
| 29 | As for the Archduke , though I personally prefer a more tautly sustained sense of direction in the opening Allegro moderato , this performance as a whole reveals them at their best , with a truly rapt and spacious slow movement as prime proof of their vision . |
| 30 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |