Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a well publicised case a patient recently committed suicide while under the care of a clinical ecologist . |
| 2 | As the team faces relegation to the Third Division , Charlton offers Dunphy a job but his house is tied to Millwall . |
| 3 | He also plays guitar a bit like Bob Dylan . |
| 4 | But she and the other investors received 4,700 per cent on their investment , and she made Drake a knight . |
| 5 | ‘ The first set was incredible — it was like a final — but after I got that set David seemed to lose heart a bit , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 6 | " The keys are hidden -under a clump of yellow flag that grows by the river , and if you will follow me I will lead you to them . " |
| 7 | That money could have electrified railways that would 've given industry a chance to get its goods into Europe . |
| 8 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |
| 9 | A major player in the Middle East market over the last 45 years , Wimpey has experience a resurgence in workload during the last two years , with over £100 million of contracts awarded in the building , civil engineering and oil sectors . |
| 10 | And with the aid of the wind got an awful lot of distance on that kick and almost earned side a corner , it was only just kept in by his opposite number Tommy Wright . |
| 11 | I did enjoy physics , but I found geography a lot easier , and I went and spoke to my careers worker at school . |
| 12 | She found fault a lot . |
| 13 | I kin smell pig a mile away , an ’ these cunts … ’ the sect thug indicated his captors with a jerk of his head , ‘ … got the same stink about ‘ em ! |
| 14 | I found relativity a bit hard to understand to begin with — because if you have n't done it before , the idea that velocity is relative to everything else , I found hard to grasp , because , before , I just said , that velocity was a definite value — now you 're doing it relative to everything else . |
| 15 | They established that 6 copyholds changed hands a total of 36 times and 21 freeholds changed ownership a total of 118 times . |
| 16 | A soundless cry parted her lips and her body arched , instinctively seeking his , but when his hand lifted to unfasten the neck of her shift and she heard a sharp , tearing sound a shaft of fear lanced through the delirium , wrenching her abruptly into full wakefulness . |
| 17 | Barbara Coleman found Rain a towel . |
| 18 | So we 'll go and buy daddy a card today . |
| 19 | The maximum diameter of this window , at the equator , is about 150° of longitude — so for the satellite to be able , say , to ‘ see ’ Singapore on the very western periphery of what one might call ‘ the economists ’ Pacific' — a definition we will consider m- a moment — its window must end in the east somewhere near the longitude of Mexico City . |
| 20 | the should ask for the two elements present in common salt and they say Name a compound . |
| 21 | In other words to break his deemed domicile a person leaving the United Kingdom must be outside of the United Kingdom for three years counting three lots of 12 months from the time he left the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Jo began frantically to try frame a lie in her mind but she could not think clearly . |
| 23 | ‘ The attraction of the place is that it lies spot-on a ley line — an imaginary line linking a few hunks of granite scattered around the landscape , supposed to have been put there by our ancestors for their spiritual gigs . |
| 24 | Van Gelder was short , very broad , deeply tanned , flaxen-haired and seemed to find life a source of constant amusement . |
| 25 | Charles , who was in his late-thirties , found celibacy a trial ; his fancy had been caught by Amaranth Wilikins . |
| 26 | Now Raby was also a considerable scholar of Latin poetry of the Middle Ages ; finally , Saxl asked Gombrich to write Raby a request in Latin poetry in case that might move him to action . |
| 27 | At this point in the book , we feel a friction growing up between Piggy and the leaders because having established democracy using the shell , the leaders then destroy it again , denying Piggy a chance to speak . |
| 28 | Nothing breaches the flatness except some kind of smokestack or cooling tower a couple of miles to the north . |
| 29 | We could n't promise Riccardo a place here next year . |
| 30 | ‘ Send Hurley a postcard . |