Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd forgotten that I pay you a salary ! |
| 2 | I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector . |
| 3 | Erm it was felt that it warranted something a lot stronger than that . |
| 4 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 5 | The creature is seen chasing two teenage boys — but all is saved when one tosses him a can of Pepsi . |
| 6 | His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile . |
| 7 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 8 | In the sense that you 've got no control over your portfolio at all , and it 's just invested and they give you a statement . |
| 9 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 10 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 11 | His face tightened and he shot her a quick assessing glance . |
| 12 | Dino Tremiti , the number-two driver , was sitting next to Mike , his eyes amused as he gave her a very comprehensive survey . |
| 13 | ‘ Will you be offended if I ask you a question ? ’ |
| 14 | They usually need to be cooked and I use them a great deal with beans and in Mexican dishes , slicing them before cooking . |
| 15 | And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were . |