Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 2 | Lucy sent Silas a side glance as she said , ‘ When I first arrived you said it might be arranged for me to see a kiwi , but I 'll quite understand … ’ |
| 3 | Now it 's arranged for them to spend a year living with families over here . |
| 4 | You 'd g had to parade on the Sunday erm for weapon training , and one Sunday we earlier on , we had n't fired a rifle , so it was arranged for us to fire a rifle at a rifle range . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 've got time to go into the Herald office this afternoon , I 've arranged for you to have a look at his file in our library , ’ he told her . |
| 6 | The jurisdiction of the Visitor is exclusive , and covers all matters relating to the internal or domestic laws of the foundation , irrespective of whether a particular claim could , for example , be formulated as one involving a breach of contract . |
| 7 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 8 | However , 15 years on , I feel the time has come for me to have a change of hairstyle . |
| 9 | ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one . |
| 10 | David Tyler , finance director of Christies International , observed , ‘ during the past few years , an increasing number of vendors have come to us requesting an advance of their sale proceeds ; we have been happy to meet those requests in many cases ’ . |
| 11 | Two packages addressed to him contained a book and a magazine full of indecent photos . |
| 12 | His status in the merchant community is attested by his becoming an alderman in 1690 and , following his father , serving as mayor of King 's Lynn in 1692 and 1703 . |
| 13 | Oh yes well you see , very occasionally , I 'd heard of somebody having an oak cokin coffin . |
| 14 | Ever heard of anyone stealing a Grandfather , an England Goalkeeper worth £31 , a four-birth tent , a navel telescope or a Bathoven music book ? |
| 15 | I 've not heard of it getting a summer ascent since . |
| 16 | Oh I tell you what he could have done for us have a look at that master that matchline thing . |
| 17 | Now I know , know of no law of economics which would permit that , would you be prepared for us to pay a lot out of tax payers ' resources to give to the Soviet people , to help their economy , to help them survive this very difficult transition period ? |
| 18 | The schools were given six weeks in which to draw up a register of parents , but decisions had first to be made about what constituted a parent . |
| 19 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
| 20 | If he cut it above himself he presumably fell , and in that case his life was evidently saved by something approaching a miracle — at any rate , we know that he was saved because otherwise he would be beyond the jurisdiction and the question would have no legal interest . |
| 21 | The living animal has by this process been transformed into something approximating a circuit board in a computer , and the researchers can go about exploring its properties rather as if they were electrical engineers , presented with a novel piece of equipment and trying to understand from scratch how its circuits function . |
| 22 | As well using the message on literature sent to people outside the region , it will also be used within it to spearhead a drive for increased quality of service . |
| 23 | Oh has it ever occurred to you to take a bottle of milk in from home save going out to buy it ? |
| 24 | A huge sheet of plastic was handed to me called a menu , which took a good five minutes to de-code . |
| 25 | Frederick Cranko 's family , who had disapproved of his marrying a Jew , would have nothing to do with his widow . |
| 26 | The voice sounded like somebody rubbing a piece of velvet around inside your head . |
| 27 | Stopped dead , eyes locked on what seemed a miracle ( in comparison to which the loaves and fishes seemed small beer ) . |
| 28 | Before the crowd could drift off , Cameron got up on the massive stone gate-post and called on them to swear an oath . |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Dundee , East called on us to promise a review , but that comes down to a running review and immediate flexibility . |
| 30 | The corollary of the possession of power by companies is that the individuals , interest groups , and communities affected by it suffer a lack of control over the conditions which determine how they live their lives . |