Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nancy enjoyed seeing them and an occasional painter or writer who asked to renew acquaintance with Arnold 's collection . |
| 2 | Corbett was nodding in agreement when a knock at the door interrupted them and a short , dumpy figure entered . |
| 3 | Instead , they ask users to return their disks for upgrade , and will notify them that an upgrade is in the offing . |
| 4 | I was on my way to the bank with £7,000 when a masked gang , carrying guns , attacked me and a friend who was with me . |
| 5 | The police were trying to interview them and a TV reporter was talking into a camera , his face lit with a bright light . |
| 6 | It angers me that an insurance company attempted to kick us in the teeth when all we were trying to do was protect ourselves . ’ |
| 7 | But if you could see me , you 'd think me but a sorry object to hobble to an altar . |
| 8 | Before long I was promoted to sewing seams , and woe betide me if a stitch showed on the face of the cloth . |
| 9 | A shop assistant promised me that a head torch would ‘ bring me down off the mountain after dark ’ . |
| 10 | It amazes me that a pair of shoes made in the north of England can cost more in common currency in London than that same pair of shoes shipped 3,000 miles to New York . |
| 11 | The reputation of the new drugs had preceded them and a ripple of optimism ran through the sanatorium , though Doctor Staples had been careful to stress that they were still in the experimental stage . |
| 12 | I have receipts signed by Meyer in the safe — he did n't want to provide them but a little arm-twisting works wonders . |
| 13 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 14 | ‘ We regret to have to inform you that a further breach has now come to our attention and we are instructed by our clients to write to you about it . |
| 15 | I am pleased to inform you that a place has been reserved for you on the above course . |
| 16 | She sounded perversely proud of her increased value , and again I thought it best not to inform her that a bubblehead like Donna could earn twice that fee in a single night . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not exonerating him but a lot of refs would have maybe done it differently . ’ |
| 18 | Gen. Martin Bonnet , the Army Chief of Staff , was reported on Oct. 31 to have filed a petition to the government for his retirement and to have requested that his Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Balza replace him until a successor was appointed . |
| 19 | In June the chairman of the opposition Birlik organisation , Abdurakhim Pulatov , needed emergency hospital treatment for skull fractures after four men beat him and a companion with metal bars as they left an interview at a police station in the capital Tashkent . |
| 20 | The Nuremberg Trials lifted the scales from the eyes of many Germans , and later OMGUS surveys reported that only one in eight ( 12 per cent ) of those questioned in the American Zone recalled trusting Hitler as Leader up to the end of the war , while 35 per cent claimed never to have trusted him and a further ( 6 per cent to have kept faith in him only until the outbreak of war . |
| 21 | What possible sense can there be in a legal rule , for example , which has it that a woman is presumed fertile even though she is past menopause or has undergone a hysterectomy operation ? |
| 22 | ( Rumour has it that a diet of Scottish scones and cookies can alleviate some of the effects of lead . |
| 23 | Somewhere in the middle of the fifteenth century , legend has it that a little girl was tending sheep here when a young lady came to play with her . |
| 24 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 25 | Legend has it that a real giant terrorised the locals . |
| 26 | One acne theory has it that an enzyme deficiency permits testosterone ( the male sex hormone present in both men and women ) to run riot , allowing it to be converted within the skin into a by-product called dihydrotestosterone ( DHT ) which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands . |
| 27 | Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco . |
| 28 | Legend has it that an age of peace will follow the return of the Stone to its rightful place . |
| 29 | I was interested to see that the Financial Times and The Spectator picked the same phrase — they described it as a ’ pyrrhic victory ’ . |
| 30 | He tried to move one of his hands to touch and soothe it but a great weariness engulfed him suddenly and his hand never reached its destination . |