Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor should the West be excessively high-minded now in condemning a regime which once served its anti-Soviet purposes so well . |
| 2 | They encounter a presence which transfigures their lives and , provided that they are temperamentally suited to this type of spiritual activity and have the benefit of expert advice , they experience a satisfaction which is real but inexpressible . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if I encounter a text which deals with an unfamiliar content area and does so in accordance. with communicative or rhetorical conventions which are new to me , then I obviously have to look much more closely at the language itself as a source of information as to what might be meant . |
| 4 | In order to test out the connections between the two , try transcribing a conversation you 've overheard on a bus , in a dentist 's waiting-room or round a meal table . |
| 5 | ‘ The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead ’ — James Joyce : Ulysses |
| 6 | In tackling a problem it is useful to gather as much information as possible and then to decide whether the solution is going to depend on more information or on a new idea . |
| 7 | Moyer 's Buttress is no exception and is probably the finest climb on the crag , tackling a feature which in days of yore would no doubt have been referred to as a bastion . |
| 8 | ‘ To catch a murderer we need a motive , ’ Spruce said bleakly . |
| 9 | I write to her with my window open to catch a breeze which is coming from over the plains where the short rains are expected . |
| 10 | It would surely take less effort to catch a fish itself . |
| 11 | These expressions , and those like them ( Uriah Heep , Job 's Comforter , Don Quixote come immediately to mind ) involve a character who is used for a particular , and rather limited , purpose , namely the personalisation of a distinct quality . |
| 12 | The beauty of the UCP is that since all relevant contracts involve a bank there is a ready mechanism for ensuring that all contracts are governed by the UCP . |
| 13 | MARRIAGES which involve a partner who has been married before are more likely to end in the divorce courts than ones between two people who have never before been up the aisle . |
| 14 | He articulates a view which is widely shared on the Opposition Benches , although the Labour party finds it seemly to repress it at present . |
| 15 | Now the VHS manufacturers have designed a machine which can be manually switched to half speed during recording . |
| 16 | The War Office had therefore designed a structure which , from its general appearance and use , looked to have been based on the idea of a boy 's Meccano . |
| 17 | As John Sherry of Geoffrey Reid says : ‘ We hope we have designed a building which people will actually enjoy visiting , not only because they are there to do their shopping , but because the building itself is worth looking at . ’ |
| 18 | So far , the costs of having a solar heating system installed have outweighed the likely savings in fuel bills , but if you can install a system yourself , you should save money . |
| 19 | I 'll install a couple who will keep an eye on her and take care of the grounds . ’ |
| 20 | The artist will seek a project which suits his or her work yet offer some challenges and opportunities . |
| 21 | He was happy enough for Lyle to win ; desperately disappointed that he had not yet won a major himself . |
| 22 | Not only had he won a match he was desperate to succeed in , he had also earned his Liverpool colours . |
| 23 | Basingstoke scored a consolation try at the end , but Alresford had won a game they made difficult by failing to capitalise on their superior backs and fitness . |
| 24 | She said they 've all come to work oh I 've won a prize I 've got a car or I 've won this that and the other . |
| 25 | As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious . |
| 26 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 27 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 28 | For almost a third of the clients for whom the development officers provided a service they obtained or increased cover from other services . |
| 29 | The rams were revived ; the catapults were improved ; and the invention of the trebuchet provided a weapon which could throw a large stone for a short distance with considerable force . |
| 30 | But the problem remained that the physical basis of Ampère 's equations was implausible ; they provided a model which could be adapted to fit new discoveries , but which did not lead to new predictions or give a convincing explanation to those whose first language was not mathematics-like Faraday . |