Example sentences of "a [noun] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The first night a girl put her hand inside my trousers was during a Kenneth More film about the sinking of the Titanic . |
2 | In a trial each subject stands to benefit ( though in the event no benefit may arise or there may even be risk of harm ) , but in non-preventive or non-therapeutic research the experimental subject is simply assisting the researcher to obtain biological data — for example , how a particular drug is excreted . |
3 | As for the new US system of having a laundry pick up a bucket each day — the worst is over by the time you have put the diaper in the bucket . |
4 | A growing trend in North America is for parents to pay a laundry service to pick up a bucket each day . |
5 | The student who seems fascinating across a seminar room , or the sorrowful homesick student in the crowded bar , on whom you take pity — these are not necessarily the ones with whom it might be best to share a kitchen all year . |
6 | So It 's a pleasure an a compliment for RAF Kemble to play host to a squadron this week and next . |
7 | Mahmoud had a case that morning in the Mixed Tribunals and Owen wanted to send a letter to England so they agreed to meet at noon at the Post Office . |
8 | I mean is it going to be a case that market values are actually going to work to our advantage ? |
9 | There was a case some time ago where a vet accidentally injected himself with some . |
10 | I had a case this week of a person who was reduced from a Category A , the most serious form of offender in prison , to a Category C. |
11 | He had always been a bit that way had Rufus , manifestly to be seen to be doing all right for himself , successful , forging ahead , accompanied by the best-looking girl possible . |
12 | And some of Sir Emmanuel 's guests were a bit that way , too . |
13 | And erm you work out whether your preference is very strongly this way or a bit this way or a bit that way . |
14 | ‘ No , love , you should have said he was a bit that way . |
15 | The striker , perhaps because he was braced for the offside whistle ( it had looked a bit that way ) , was less than decisive and allowed Michael Watt to save at his feet . |
16 | Mr got his handkerchief in his top pocket , you see , my father always used to only he 's standing a bit that way . |
17 | I 'm a bit that way about garden gnomes . |
18 | Can we shift this table a bit that way or other way . |
19 | a bit that way . |
20 | And you 've done them a bit all green have n't you , why do n't you do some of erm |
21 | Lacking the elaborate Go-motion system of rods and computer control that Tippett had devised at ILM for the dragon in Dragonslayer ( 1981 ) , intended to create a slight blur as each single-frame shot was made ( since in real motion the subject moves fractionally in the one-fiftieth of a second for which one frame is exposed ) , they simply shook the puppet a bit each time . |
22 | ‘ I thought I could pay a bit each week outa yower wages and Jack 's , but now 'e 's leavin' us , – she wept even louder . |
23 | ‘ Fred and Harry are doin' a bit this afternoon . |
24 | And erm you work out whether your preference is very strongly this way or a bit this way or a bit that way . |
25 | This way , up a bit , across a bit this way , down , that 's it . |
26 | Well move up a bit this way Fred if you do n't mind . |
27 | ‘ I think you over-reacted a bit this morning , old Pat , ’ Richie said , when Patrick fell into step beside him . |
28 | I , I actually taped it and I was , I was watching a bit this morning before Jean came . |
29 | Follow it around a bit this side you will see like a loads of cars . |
30 | ‘ I lost control a bit this evening . |