Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was working with a variety group and we laughed together when Sir Henry , who had still a lot of influence , let it be known that it was his wish that Miss Anne Zeigler married Mr Webster Booth . |
| 2 | Er , I think it came out at a Trial Audit and we should have a job specification , even if it 's a generic job specification for every member of staff . |
| 3 | Top left : Elizabeth Jane 's father installed this shelf above a kitchen window and it now makes a colourful setting for a blue and white plate collection . |
| 4 | The information from the assessment may be presented orally at a case conference or it may be presented in the form of a written report . |
| 5 | ‘ I just wish we had a money tree and we could shake it and produce money to save the Naze . ’ |
| 6 | Oh you know , do you remember Yvonne saying that that plant down there was a money plant and I did n't know what it was called ? |
| 7 | It was a bit shit but I liked it . |
| 8 | One of the things I was asked to write about this week I think was a radio , to , to write about er what I felt about radios , you know , er , erm , so anything could be thrown at you , and obviously I have my areas that I particularly interested in and I think sometimes I get a bit complacement and I 'm writing about a , I find particularly interested in and a bit lazy , so its quite good to be stretched . |
| 9 | This was a parting gift but I dropped mine and the bloody dogs were on it in a flash , whilst Benjamin , kind as ever , gave his to the page who served us . |
| 10 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 11 | It will be a lobbying organization and it deliberately eschews any party political association . |
| 12 | I 've got a lady 's shell jacket , you know th like a shell suit but it 's just the jacket separate . |
| 13 | I do my exam in January and then I drop it because I go on a teaching practice and I pick it up halfway through third year . |
| 14 | In her teens , she set her sights on a teaching career and she held a Sunday school class for four years . |
| 15 | A near neighbour was recruited as a support worker and she too began to become involved in the family arguments . |
| 16 | Equally , Mailer 's reflections on the similarities between the condition of the writer and of the boxer ( 'There is a support system but you are alone … ‘ ) led you to a parallel which the programme tactfully left unstated . |
| 17 | Kate 's a kind woman but I think there 's a chance you just might wear out that welcome of yours . ’ |
| 18 | It was a chest wound an' I ca n't do much now wivout gettin' out o' breath , ’ he told her . |
| 19 | His post-operative progress was complicated by a chest infection and he found it very difficult to regain his usual level of activity because his arthritis seemed worse after the operation and a day or two spent largely in bed . |
| 20 | Well then if you 're just paying that money into a building society and you 're paying , obviously you ca n't write out as many cheques as what you would normally d do in a bank and have a standing order so therefore it 's got ta be paid by cash . |
| 21 | I know they are working on a building site but we are just fed-up with this disruption . ’ |
| 22 | We usually have a west wind and it 'll go straight into these holes . |
| 23 | They are DEVOTED to each other — she 's seeing a toy boy and he 's had a mistress for the last fourteen years |
| 24 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
| 25 | What happens if they were to say no though in a negotiating position and they just we 'll , we 'll go . |
| 26 | He had this trick and he had a blow torch and he burned off all this blokes hair . |
| 27 | Benn is a stereotype fighter and I 'm against that . |
| 28 | She did eventually die of a heart attack but it was nothing to do with Luke . ’ |
| 29 | So they do n't frighten them , you know , if you 're lying there you 're having a heart attack or you just had one the last thing you want to hear is sort of the noise of the siren , the panicking noise of a siren . |
| 30 | ‘ He went out to the … er … pub , and he had a heart attack and he died ! ’ |