Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 31 | Before he left he handed Father Barnes a card with a number on it . |
| 32 | Give your floor a new angle and your feet a treat with Habitat 's new deep pile Pyramid rug . |
| 33 | A newly-mated pair of beavers choose for their home a valley with a small stream running down it . |
| 34 | ‘ Yes , I wanted to be nearer home to be able to give my parents a hand with Jennifer . |
| 35 | In such circumstances a firm with surplus funds would have three investment opportunities : Project A , Project B or investing £50,000 on the capital market to earn compound interest at 10 per cent per annum . |
| 36 | At that moment a pigeon with a stump for one leg hirpled past . |
| 37 | You really ought to give the place a going-over with the Hoover once in a while . ’ |
| 38 | From the window we could see to the right a barrel-organ with a small dog dressed as a clown , to the left a pile of rags heaped on the Métro ventilation grille . |
| 39 | We drove up , my grandson go goes to nursery you see and I like to give Gwen a hand with the girls , I got ta be up with now well it 's driving everybody round the bend ! |
| 40 | INSOMNIACS bored with counting sheep can now organise their financial affairs at any time of the day or night , seven days a week with the launch of Firstdirect , Midland Bank 's telephone banking service . |
| 41 | This operates 7 days a week with graduate chemist cover . |
| 42 | It 's hard work ; 7 days a week with hardly a holiday and a target of 2,500 sticks a year just to pay the bills . |
| 43 | Open seven days a week with a late night to 8pm on Thursdays , Sunday is one of the busiest days , mainly because the whole family can come in and browse . |
| 44 | The region 's social work department is appealing for ‘ shared carers ’ who can spend one or two days a month with people who have special needs . |
| 45 | British Gas said that over the last 10 years it has lost about 2,000 workers a year with the switch to natural gas . |
| 46 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 47 | In the same period a man with seventeen years of experience as apprentice and officer in tankers , passenger- and tramp steamers all over the world was at the height of a career as a popular author of tales which bore the legend ‘ a story for boys ’ on title-pages as well as on dust-jackets . |
| 48 | For the loyal Reds follower choose her wedding outfit in the team colours a dress with red bodice and white crinoline skirt topped by white bowler hat and veil . |
| 49 | So I did — and all of a sudden a man with a gun grabbed me round the neck and dragged me off . |
| 50 | Thus in cheap years a family with three children were guaranteed 9s ( 45p ) , while the doubling of the bread allowance in dearer ones would bring this up to 12s ( 60p ) . |
| 51 | She had given Lily a holiday with pay , but Lily had obstinately reappeared and was working with the rest . |
| 52 | Yves Rocher 's Massage Glove , £9.95 a desc with rounded spokes and a handle which has been designed by a physiotherapist and promises an effective massage . |
| 53 | Barney nodded resignedly as he gave the canoe a push with his foot , and watched it drift out into midstream . |
| 54 | Give your hair a boost with Wella 's new Colour Confidence Wash Out Colour . |
| 55 | In this case a boot with a generous 490 litres of storage space . |
| 56 | Thus it is common ground in the present case that if a manufacturer negligently makes and markets defective goods , for instance a car with defective brakes , or a soothing syrup for babies which is negligently contaminated with corrosive acid , and the defective goods are put on the market and sold to a member of the public , and the predictable accident follows and a young baby is injured , for instance if the baby is a passenger in the car when the brakes fail and the car crashes , or is given the syrup , it is no defence to an action for damages , by or on behalf of the baby , for the manufacturer to prove that the baby was only born after the defective goods had left the manufacturer 's premises or even had passed to the member of the public by purchase from the retailer . |
| 57 | The former Gestetner Holdings Plc unit , doing some $20m a year with 80 staff , works with technology suppliers to develop laser printer products and controller boards . |
| 58 | Nozick develops a model which enables him to make primary a principle with respect to entitlement . |
| 59 | Fourth , the need to develop grade related criteria for GCSE may give the APU a link with the examination system , if it is involved in their development . |
| 60 | A high grade official might also keep at hand a jade sceptre ( ju-i ) with flattened head and curved handle of a kind used at court and commonly presented by an emperor to persons of distinction , and in addition a hat-stand with carved domed head mounted on a wooden stem and base set with jade . |