Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like a toy town I 've put away in the cupboard because I 'm too old for it and here it is , still waiting for me . |
| 2 | But to really appreciate a Woodstock kitchen you have to look deeper than the cabinet door . |
| 3 | So if you wanted to be a removal man you had to find the work to justify you having an A licence , but of course you could n't because you had n't got an A licence to do it with . |
| 4 | Rebecque unfolded a sketch map he had made . |
| 5 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 6 | He sent me a computer program he had written called Equalizer . |
| 7 | Now that we do it all on a computer screen we need to define the pieces before we can start . |
| 8 | So as a cabin boy you had to relieve |
| 9 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 10 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 11 | When I returned , to my horror , I discovered a dive computer I had borrowed was missing . |
| 12 | CUBA offered yesterday to treat the pop idol Michael Jackson for a skin disease he has said afflicts him . |
| 13 | Spittals picked up from his desk a silver cup he had won in his youth in the Manchester Bowls League . |
| 14 | They had a movie idea they wanted to try out and there was a part in it for Ken if he wanted it . |
| 15 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 16 | A member of the Orrell Park Community Centre which does n't own a snooker table he has to travel to the Red Rum Snooker Club in Croxteth to practice . |
| 17 | Wycliffe led him into his office and entered upon the preamble : ‘ In a murder case we have to follow every possible lead . |
| 18 | Some Californians who visited us are now setting up a centre in San Francisco , ’ said Tabkay. — Tabkay seated in one of the gompas in front of a geling , a wind instrument he has mastered . |
| 19 | After some weeks , instead of taking a sleeping pill she decided to lie awake and feel what her body was telling her . |
| 20 | Di , Di did n't have but the one but he come up , he said said he wants a spirit level and he wants a tape measure he 'd got the spirit level he said I ca n't find the tape measure he said , said it was on top of the bag . |
| 21 | Mr Crofts said : ‘ As a football club we 've got to progress . |
| 22 | Seen anyone beating a car panel it 's got |
| 23 | After completing a check list you need to write down a conclusion . |
| 24 | The five-day trial centred on a telephone call she had made on Oct. 27 , 1988 , to her husband Hans Kopp , who was then vice-president of the Shakarchi Trading Company . |
| 25 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
| 26 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about the ‘ 68 but as a Fender Jag it 's got a real thin sound . |
| 28 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 29 | Now I think as a management team we need to think about what our strategy , our tactics are gon na be with regard to this . |
| 30 | As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem . |