Example sentences of "[conj] a cat " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse stabled in a shed or barn can not see people , cars , and animals come and go ; or a cat or dog wandering by , birds flying , the wind in the grass and trees , and so on . |
| 2 | ( Even little boys , they like being painted like Batman or a cat or something . ) |
| 3 | You can also be more experimental in a story , write in the person of a ghost or a cat , do things you could n't get away with in a novel . |
| 4 | A calm stance breeds a sense of trust and security , while a threatening pose will make creatures run , just as a dog will cower or a cat will flee merely at the kind of look expressed upon your face , even in the absence of words . |
| 5 | Or a cat will bring home a live mouse to teach her kittens how to catch it . |
| 6 | After all , a dog or a cat will come for the rub and tickle it so obviously enjoys . |
| 7 | They lie dormant , usually in carpets , until they feel the faint tremble that indicates a person or a cat passing , and then rapidly emerge . |
| 8 | In words , the EQ of a given species such as a rhino or a cat , is a measure of how much bigger ( or smaller ) the animal 's brain is than we should expect it to be , given the animal 's body size . |
| 9 | Let us assume that a cat stalks a duck until it gets within striking distance . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 11 | The Cornish Rex was discovered in 1950 when it was noticed that a cat with the unusual name of Kallibunker did not have normal feline fur . |
| 12 | I started with the knowledge , from my experience of the world , that a cat is likely to be very unhappy at being stuck under a gate ; that a human , by virtue of greater intelligence and manual dexterity is likely to be able to free such a cat ; that humans generally like to alleviate the suffering of pets ; and that old women in British society have an — often misplaced — belief in the practical abilities of men . |
| 13 | She stepped back , massaging her wrist and looking at Hrun in much the same way that a cat watches a mousehole . |
| 14 | It 's 10 minutes today : less than a cat puts in on a bird . |
| 15 | Rougher than a cat 's tongue . |
| 16 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 17 | That was faster and nimbler than a cat , |
| 18 | Sleeps all day sleeps all bloody night , worse than a cat . |
| 19 | A house with a great man in it and an old woman and a cat , that runs itself ? ’ |
| 20 | You ca n't have family snaps when there 's just the two of you and a cat . |
| 21 | In Kisling 's portrait Cocteau appears as a small , sensitive , dreaming figure , almost lost in the large room , with its chairs and table , open window , blue sky and a cat . |
| 22 | And a cat scratched its claws against the tree , |
| 23 | A woman with a brush of close-cut grey hair sat with her sewing close to the fire and a cat rested on her lap , and she looked at Millet with fear and seemed to warn her husband that this was an intruder . |
| 24 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 25 | A cock shouts " ruka-ruka-row " , a dog barks " duff-duff " and a cat simply says " meng " ! |
| 26 | A ray from the lamp beside the bed showed that the Virgin 's dress was also crimson , while the Three Kings had the heads of beasts : a horse , a lizard and a cat . |
| 27 | If a cat attacks , the chances are it will get someone else and not you . |
| 28 | It is a trick that might just save the life of the bird if a cat has caught it and then placed it on the ground for a moment before starting to pluck it . |
| 29 | But if a cat is cornered and can not run away , even though it wishes fervently to do so , it may then make a sound which transmits the message : ‘ I fear you , but do not push me too far , or I will turn on you despite my fear . ’ |
| 30 | If a cat performs some very strange action — finds its way home over a long distance , predicts an earthquake , or senses the return of its owners when they are some distance from the house — then it is a challenge for us to try and find out which particular sensory pathway was involved . |