Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett was nodding in agreement when a knock at the door interrupted them and a short , dumpy figure entered . |
| 2 | I was on my way to the bank with £7,000 when a masked gang , carrying guns , attacked me and a friend who was with me . |
| 3 | The police were trying to interview them and a TV reporter was talking into a camera , his face lit with a bright light . |
| 4 | But if you could see me , you 'd think me but a sorry object to hobble to an altar . |
| 5 | Before long I was promoted to sewing seams , and woe betide me if a stitch showed on the face of the cloth . |
| 6 | A shop assistant promised me that a head torch would ‘ bring me down off the mountain after dark ’ . |
| 7 | It amazes me that a pair of shoes made in the north of England can cost more in common currency in London than that same pair of shoes shipped 3,000 miles to New York . |
| 8 | The reputation of the new drugs had preceded them and a ripple of optimism ran through the sanatorium , though Doctor Staples had been careful to stress that they were still in the experimental stage . |
| 9 | I have receipts signed by Meyer in the safe — he did n't want to provide them but a little arm-twisting works wonders . |
| 10 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 11 | ‘ We regret to have to inform you that a further breach has now come to our attention and we are instructed by our clients to write to you about it . |
| 12 | I am pleased to inform you that a place has been reserved for you on the above course . |
| 13 | She sounded perversely proud of her increased value , and again I thought it best not to inform her that a bubblehead like Donna could earn twice that fee in a single night . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not exonerating him but a lot of refs would have maybe done it differently . ’ |
| 15 | Gen. Martin Bonnet , the Army Chief of Staff , was reported on Oct. 31 to have filed a petition to the government for his retirement and to have requested that his Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Balza replace him until a successor was appointed . |
| 16 | In June the chairman of the opposition Birlik organisation , Abdurakhim Pulatov , needed emergency hospital treatment for skull fractures after four men beat him and a companion with metal bars as they left an interview at a police station in the capital Tashkent . |
| 17 | The Nuremberg Trials lifted the scales from the eyes of many Germans , and later OMGUS surveys reported that only one in eight ( 12 per cent ) of those questioned in the American Zone recalled trusting Hitler as Leader up to the end of the war , while 35 per cent claimed never to have trusted him and a further ( 6 per cent to have kept faith in him only until the outbreak of war . |
| 18 | What possible sense can there be in a legal rule , for example , which has it that a woman is presumed fertile even though she is past menopause or has undergone a hysterectomy operation ? |
| 19 | ( Rumour has it that a diet of Scottish scones and cookies can alleviate some of the effects of lead . |
| 20 | Somewhere in the middle of the fifteenth century , legend has it that a little girl was tending sheep here when a young lady came to play with her . |
| 21 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 22 | Legend has it that a real giant terrorised the locals . |
| 23 | I was interested to see that the Financial Times and The Spectator picked the same phrase — they described it as a ’ pyrrhic victory ’ . |
| 24 | He tried to move one of his hands to touch and soothe it but a great weariness engulfed him suddenly and his hand never reached its destination . |
| 25 | I mean the I mean , like , I mean , people say it that a personality makes up for like , looks or whatever , and with hi , he 's the only person I 've ever met where it really really does ! |
| 26 | You never used it where a fist would do or a belt would do . |
| 27 | Labour 's plans include a programme to provide nursery education to the parent of every child aged three or four who wants it and a doubling of the proportion of young people aged 16 to 18 in full-time education and high quality training within a decade . |
| 28 | No they do n't erect them when a , when a predator comes along , they just run or fly if they can . |
| 29 | It becomes a great pleasure to read this passage , another justification of those who assured me that A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland remains one of the fundamental works in the literature of travel . |
| 30 | The hon. Member for West Bromwich , East ( Mr. Snape ) assured me that a Labour Secretary of State would be bound by the timetable that he proposes for public Bill procedures . |