Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to test out the connections between the two , try transcribing a conversation you 've overheard on a bus , in a dentist 's waiting-room or round a meal table . |
| 2 | She said they 've all come to work oh I 've won a prize I 've got a car or I 've won this that and the other . |
| 3 | And there was no there was no if you had n't earned a shilling you 'd got nothing to eat had you ? |
| 4 | He adds : ‘ Since becoming a dad I 've changed . |
| 5 | The Newfoundland will will jump into the into the water and will tow a boat I 've filmed one towing a boat . |
| 6 | He also described a call he had made later to his friend Hartmut Mayer of the BKA asking him if he knew how the bomb had been put aboard Flight 103 . |
| 7 | A tramp named Frederick Redvers Johns described a man he saw throwing a parcel over a nearby railway bridge on the evening of 22 June . |
| 8 | She described a strategy she had developed to deal with this : |
| 9 | As for affirmations , well , when slogging away to meet a deadline I 've found that repeating , ‘ You 're tougher than you think ’ while gulping down a large glass of gin works a treat . |
| 10 | we do it through a dealership , like if you want a Cortin if you want a Sierra you 've got to go to Cowlers or something you ca n't go to Ford |
| 11 | Years later he found a diary he had kept as a schoolboy in 1940 , two years before I became really aware of him , and he gave it to me . |
| 12 | But I did n't know who that man was — until I found a portrait she had painted of you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If they found a point they wished to query us on we had to give an instant , pressurised response , ’ he said . |
| 14 | They say a letter they 've received exonerating the doctors involved is an insult to their daughter 's memory . |
| 15 | Constantine had sponsored the building of a cathedral adjoining a palace he had assigned to the bishop , and of some great memorial churches on the edges of the city . |
| 16 | Enclosing this sketch in his letter Monshe mentioned a district he had heard about , called the Borinage . |
| 17 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 18 | To find a job he had to hide the fact that he had been in a mental hospital . |
| 19 | He also has a quartet he attempts to rule with a very firm hand and an inadequate manager called Giant ( Spike Lee himself ) whose obsession with gambling is one reason why the group is prone to the exploitation of ( white ) New York club owners . |
| 20 | ‘ He has a box he has to ride in . |
| 21 | ‘ He has a job he wishes to discuss with you . |
| 22 | However , such schemes rest on the assumption that the small businessman already has an idea he wishes to develop . |
| 23 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 24 | Thus , if team 3 , thinking of beef adds an e they have completed a word — bee — and lose a point ; but only if another team spots it and challenges them . |
| 25 | ’ Come away in and warm yourself , Archie , ’ I said , adopting an idiom I had absorbed from him . |
| 26 | If we are designing or promoting a product we need to look clearly into the viewpoint of the consumer — and this is not the same as his needs . |
| 27 | GAMBIAN police have named a man they want to question about the murder of a British conservation worker who was killed in a game reserve in December . |
| 28 | Reviving a battle he had begun two years ago with military-equipment designers , he insisted that his men needed boots of beige suede with speed laces , ankle-supports , lightweight nylon material , a sand-blocking closure and arch-support . |
| 29 | When a schoolfriend told a neighbour he had seen a body , the boy said it was a blow-up dummy his father had left lying around . |
| 30 | No she , she does n't do a thing I mean to cook a Sunday dinner she does n't know what it is . |