Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they still did an average of three shows a night , after their stint in Paris this was easy . |
| 2 | Drawn into the complex political world of the 490s he showed an interest in the arianism of his fellow monarchs , as well as in the catholicism of Chlothild , and some members of his court were actually baptized as arians ; he himself , although he may have already been converted to Christianity , did not commit himself firmly either to catholicism or arianism , although he certainly showed an interest in the views of the heretics . |
| 3 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 4 | The local EHO was satisfied with our standards during his last visit and our maintenance manager is our health and officer so he also keeps an eye on things . ’ |
| 5 | OK , so it eventually becomes an obsession , and someone has to kill to get the key , but it keeps the audience alert , particularly when there 's a late night knock at the door . |
| 6 | But as I say every year er if I ever find an application where you need this sort of speed I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 7 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 8 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 9 | If she once got an idea in her head you 'd never move it , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Yeah but if you just said an acid and a so and so , but you 're saying a H C L and a and it 's I know |
| 11 | If you already have an account , you can talk to one of the staff in your branch or see the manager . |
| 12 | IF YOU ALREADY HAVE AN ACCOUNT WITH A BANK OR BUILDING SOCIETY IN THE UK OR THE CHANNEL ISLANDS , PLEASE SUPPLY DETAILS ON THE ENCLOSED FORM CF351 . |
| 13 | ‘ If you only got an apple for Christmas during the depression ’ , said Mr Perot , ‘ you understood your parents loved you . |
| 14 | If you still decide an carpet for comfort , warmth and quiet , it should be as expensive as you can afford . |
| 15 | It is meant both to set out extraordinary expenditure which was how it arose but at the same time John pointed out that it might be a good thing if we also had an indication of the routine procedures and so therefore they are now set out in one document and are for your er final approval . |
| 16 | We 're gon na have to take a list of what we 've got , and if we ever see an advertisement and we 're gon na buy them , say oh no , I 've got that one and that one , and that one , and that one . |
| 17 | The opposite problem is experienced by those who are lacking in confidence , who feel that they should not worry other people with their problems and who , if they finally make an appointment , tend to rush through it and come away without covering all the points with which they had really hoped to deal . |
| 18 | If he really made an effort , perhaps something could be salvaged . |
| 19 | But what of the driving force behind it all — if he suddenly had an offer to take charge of a major opera house in the west , would he leave behind what he has so painstakingly built up ? |
| 20 | ‘ One of the selling points when I joined was that I 'd be privy to scripts that I was never exposed to because I never had an agent . ’ |
| 21 | it was just and equitable to make a deduction because you unreasonably refused an offer of reinstatement ; |
| 22 | It should be noted that cl 7.3 goes beyond granting an indemnity for third party claims , since it also grants an indemnity for loss suffered by the buyer as a result of breaches of the contract by the seller . |
| 23 | Consequently SCP is attractive to some corporate depositors since it commonly carries an interest rate of Libid or better and diversifies the risk away from the banking sector . |
| 24 | Indeed , some Keynesians went so far as to say that money is unimport-ant since it only exerts an influence on economic activity via interest rates , and then without much success . |
| 25 | I do not wish to appear uncharacteristically churlish , but I wonder whether I alone raised an eyebrow when the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) questioned whether the Secretary of State should have left the debate after an hour when the hon. Gentleman has been the only member of his party to be here throughout the debate — until the hon. Member for Liverpool , Mossley Hill ( Mr. Alton ) scuttled in towards the end of his speech . |
| 26 | I wo n't be held by a promise that was unfairly extracted from me before I legally became an adult . |
| 27 | If reading Alison 's story sets off alarm bells in your head about whether you too have an exercise obsession , or perhaps have a friend or sister who does , then turn to ‘ Obsessions : Where to get help ’ . |
| 28 | ( It will probably take two journeys before you actually get an answer . ) |
| 29 | Here , then , the doubts about precatory words are reasonable doubts whether they clearly express an intention on the part of a testator . |
| 30 | But it may be doubted whether he necessarily commits an offence under section 4 should he fail to do so . |