Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum . |
| 2 | Son taught it to me , in case I ever got a Hungarian . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I still have a wife , but there 's no need for you to worry your pretty little head about it . |
| 4 | But when I learned to play guitar I just got a book of chords and learned them and just sort of thrashed around . |
| 5 | If that 's the Sue I once bought a drink for — out of pity — in a certain low-rent wine bar she frequents ( Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women hogging the tables ) , then I do n't think she 's telling the full story . |
| 6 | It 's significant that when I get home at night and want to listen to a record for pleasure I usually choose a disc made over 30 years ago — the message survives the medium to an astonishing extent in the best old records . |
| 7 | The dealer moved to another firm and stuffed the client with £12,000 worth of a speculative American stock which ultimately proved a dud . |
| 8 | Now , there is a basic constitutional principle , embodied in the Bill of Rights of 1688/9 , that the levying of taxes must be authorized by statute , and so there is an argument for saying that non-statutory rules made by the Revenue which effectively determine a taxpayer 's liability to tax are ‘ unconstitutional ’ . |
| 9 | They lived in a house in the Terrace , and eventually my father was sent to Ampleforth in Yorkshire , a Benedictine monastery which also ran a boarding school . |
| 10 | For example , is it good business sense to open a fish and chip shop in a row of shops which already includes a burger bar , a Chinese take-away and an Indian restaurant . |
| 11 | in the phrase … ’ will indicate a common phrasal usage of a word ; ‘ foll. by … ’ indicates words which commonly follow a word ; ‘ Comp. : ’ provides a word with which the reader should compare a word with . |
| 12 | All elite theorists define the state organizationally as a compulsory institution which successfully maintains a monopoly of legitimate force within a given territory . |
| 13 | There is still a superficial resemblance to the old style , especially on larger vases which often have a figure-frieze on neck and body , the rest being covered with graded bands of abstract ornament ; but this has shrunk to little more than varied groupings of zigzags , while massed zigzags among the figures of the main friezes make a shimmering ground on which the fuller , curvier silhouettes or dot-filled outlines of men , women , animals , monsters , flowers stand out . |
| 14 | Unlike the large international headhunting firms , Young never sought to develop as much business as possible , preferring to maintain tight control of a specialist practice which also offered a form of management consultant-type counselling . |
| 15 | Dr Gerard Vaughan , a former health minister , was especially vocal in condemning the action , but others took the view that the ‘ informer ’ in the case had a duty to report an action which possibly constituted a crime against another human being ; |
| 16 | A natural action which only becomes a problem in excess and the foot continues to roll inwards . |
| 17 | Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson has commissioned a life of Barbara Cartland from Tim Heald , as part of a three-book deal which also includes a book about the final year before the handover of Hong Kong to China , The Last Governor , and a third ‘ highly confidential ’ project . |
| 18 | Some tax can be saved by using a service company owned by the partnership which then charges a fee to the partnership for the rendering of non-legal services , for example administrative and computer services . |
| 19 | One is the Merseyside force which already has a link from the PNC to its £2 million command and control computer . |
| 20 | Its small size suggests that it was a so-called ‘ satellite ’ pyramid which probably played a part in the ritual entombment of the pharaoh , although the lack of remains found in satellite pyramids have made it difficult to determine their function . |
| 21 | The position of the litigant who wrongly brings a case under Order 53 is different because Ord. 53 r. 9(5) may allow the case to continue as if it had been started by ordinary writ procedure . |
| 22 | The defendant who accidentally offends a passer-by or the neighbour has quite a heavy burden to discharge , having to show that he was not negligent in acting as he did . |
| 23 | To the many BMJ readers who never submit a paper this may seem to be limited accountability , but the time that editors take to make decisions on publication is critical to authors . |
| 24 | We sit on wooden boxes round the heavy tables with their curling iron legs , and because the lollies are set on sticks splintered from firewood you sometimes get a skelf in your mouth as you suck , intent on the Lone Ranger . |
| 25 | Miss Christina Odone , a journalist who currently runs a business charity in Washington , takes up her position this week . |
| 26 | There was , nevertheless , an unusually large crowd , including one or two golf journalists who rarely saw a golf course . |
| 27 | The immediacy of the job is obviously an attraction to Simmons , born in Merton , south London , and a pupil at Dulwich college who never visualised a career with the AA . |
| 28 | ‘ It probably had a lot to do with his job but he was a fella who always had a word for you , ’ said Mr Lavery . |
| 29 | Kids who never have a chance , from the day they are born . |
| 30 | Osaka Transport Authority operates a ‘ hit-money ’ system that rewards staff who display forbearance when attacked , like the station employee who recently asked a man kicking a broken vending machine to stop , only to be hit on the head . |