Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who would I want to fight with an old man ? " |
| 2 | I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small . |
| 3 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 4 | I got clipped in an air strike on the first day . |
| 5 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 6 | Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man . |
| 7 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 8 | I came to motor sport after I 'd qualified as an architect and gained a business degree , ’ he told her curtly . |
| 9 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I like to dress like an Englishman . ’ |
| 11 | Not only is the Swaledale Festival being held from May 22nd to June 7th , but throughout the season the Richmond Meet ( which I understand began as an association of cyclists ) is celebrating its centenary with maypole dancing , a triathlon , a dinner , golfing events and all manner of other attractions . |
| 12 | I attempt to stay for an hour or two . |
| 13 | Then , in the summer of 1923 I went to stay with an old schoolfriend in Grasmere , whose brother , Micky , was a Scholar at Brasenose . |
| 14 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |
| 15 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 16 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 17 | It seemed to me that in Mr White Face I had stumbled upon an evolutionary path paralleling — rivalling — our accepted one ; that this path sprang from a small ground mammal ( possibly tusked ) very different from the arboreal tarsier-like creature from which Homo sapiens has developed . |
| 18 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 19 | I had applied for an Adjournment debate on this subject , but I realised that the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) had a prior right , representing as he does the NLVA . |
| 20 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 21 | ‘ I had worked as an Assistant Secretary ( senior manager ) full time for three years in a very heavy job and I was beginning to feel I was permanently breathless . |
| 22 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 23 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |
| 24 | Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … . |
| 25 | I used to sit outside the job centre , then come home and say , " I have applied , but I had to send in an application form " , and I had n't even gone in there . |
| 26 | Heavy with child I come to ask for an extraction . |
| 27 | In the meantime , I 've cabled for an X-ray report on the fellow 's chest . |
| 28 | erm I 've arranged for an independent assessor to view this vehicle , and the view of that independent assessor is this is a straightforward claim against the insurance company , and I at the moment am pursuing that , so it 's a little bit of a conflict of interest that one , but that does give you some background on that particular case . |
| 29 | I 've heard of an old lady in Penzance who wants a companion … ’ |
| 30 | Well look at me , I 've worked in an office before but , do I know everything ? |